The NHS is a great institution, but it could learn a lot by seeing what is done in other countries.
For instance, I have a medical card with a unique number, similar to a driving licence. When I go to a doctor, anywhere in Spain, they read my card and immediately know my complete medical history.
Four days ago I had to go to the hospital to see "dracula". I had been given an appointment time, and when I arrived I held my card in front of a reader, in the same way as one pays a bill with a credit card. The machine printed out a code number and I went to sit down in the waiting room. On a big screen, there were loads of numbers, with a cubicle number attached. I watched my number head up the queue, and then it was allocated a cubicle. I entered the cubicle, and the nurse filled four vials with my blood, labeling then with a self adhesive bar code that had been printed out automatically as soon as I was called. The time from arriving to leaving was about fifteen minutes, because everything is computerised. When I went to see my doctor two days later, in our local medical centre, she pulled up the lab results on her screen and issued a prescription, entering it on the computer. I then went to a local pharmacy, (there is a choice of around half a dozen) where they put my card in to their computer, and issued me my drugs, charging me 10% of the full price.
I month's supply of Losartan plus one month's supply of Alprazolam cost me 53 cents, meaning the medicines cost the government 5 euros and 30 cents.
I don't know how much the NHS pays for these drugs, but unscrupulous suppliers do try to overcharge. In Spain, they are automatically blacklisted, and as far as I know it's permanent, so drug companies toe the line.

Yes, the Tories and some of Labor are happy with cutting funding to NHS so they can say it is not working so let us sell it of to private enterprise, and bugger the people.