At the risk of turning this thread into a NHS experience thread and ignoring the hiking part..
My view is that the Government actively encourage the population to 'fight' amongst itself and the NHS is the biggest topic 'hand grenade' the Establishment have.. This way the establishment can 'guide' your opinion to be the same as theirs and turn their opinion into your opinion you think you are clever and thus the individual feels they are involved... What the individual should do of course is find out the facts for themselves and NOT listen to what a politician or Media tells you, they just tell you what they want you to know..
There is definitely a North South divide.. Why is it the population of the South won't say hello when out in the Countryside or have half the manners that the folk in the North have but feel as if they can comment on things they think they know about but in reality they know nothing.. I get it every day in my job, ( in Hampshire ) I get called in to fix a dishwasher and instead of just telling me the fault I get told how to fix it, this attitude has been far more widespread since the Devil that is the internet.. Why am I there then ?? Therefore more and more people must think they know what a Nurse or an employee of the NHS does for a job and feel the need to comment as if what they know is FACT and that 'everyone is at it'.. The only Fact is that unless you have done the job you DON'T know and can't comment.. I would prefer people to use their brains more and mouth less, be pleasant, be considerate, treat others as you would want to be treated and NO one is interest in being force fed pointless opinion..
As far as the NHS goes, if we were all more pleasant, thankful and kind to each other, the folk that have the difficult jobs in the NHS might actually get less stressed.. The NHS isn't failing because the people that work there are making it fail, it's failing because the Government are deliberately underfunding and making it fail so they get the support of the population to privatise it.. We shouldn't let this happen because then the NHS will turn into a Corporate Tax dodge just like the UK Utilities and rail system.. There's a whole other discussion for another time... SUPPORT THE NHS... SUPPORT THE NHS.. SUPPORT THE NHS.. SUPPORT THE NHS.. SUPPORT THE NHS..