I would agree that the NHS needs major tightening up. As does the Education system.
But the problem is cowardly British governments and tight-fisted British tax payers. Governments are afraid to charge people the tax they need to provide the level of service most people want, as they think it will lose them votes. Tax payers want better services, but expect the money for those to come out of thin air.
Two decades of real-terms cut-backs to the NHS under the Tories (who wanted the private sector to take over much of the health sector), along with the tax reductions they made (which they assumed people would put into private companies providing better services than the ones the government provided in the Health sector) resulted not in British people paying their own Private Health Insurance, but in Britains going on better holidays and buying more shiney things.
They had a higher disposable income through lower taxes and economic upturns, but still used the NHS, and THEN complained it wasn't as good as it used to be.
Let's just ignore medical technology is more expensive than in the seventies, let's ignore the cut-backs in real-terms, the raise in the numbers of old people and in lifespans, and that many more people can be kept alive (at a cost) compared to 1970, and expect a better service for less money.
Rather than trying to educate and inform the voters that they were being more than a little stupid, the mantra of 'tax cuts gain votes' became all-important, and the NHS fell into repair. Even when Labour got in, they were so intent on being Tories they held off 'telling the truth' about tax until recently.
Don't even start me on Education!
If you are going to have a 'free' Health Service, if you don't fund it with taxes, you will have a bad Health Service.
I know that the UK spends half of it's GDP compared to what Germany spends on health care.
It's not rocket science, is it? Or is the German system MORE mismanaged and wasteful?
People living in glass paradigms shouldn't throw stones...