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Journalists name it a ‘marmalade dropper’, a narrative so gorgeous it might make gape-mouthed readers ditch their morning toast.

“The queue that shames Britain: 7.11am and desperate patients wait in the cold and dark outside surgery – just so they can be seen by their GP,’ roared the headline.

Could there be a more damning indictment of the Tories’ systematic neglect of the NHS over the last 14 years?

Sunbury Health Centre GP Practice and its pre-dawn queue was the perfect example of Keir Starmer’s indictment that the Conservatives, my party, had “broken the NHS”.

But then I checked the date of the article. It was 22 December 2014.

I used to be elected to characterize Spelthorne in July’s General Election. A primary-time MP, I promised voters I’d dwell within the constituency.

Ten days after the election, my spouse Caroline and I moved to Sunbury – with that Sunbury Health Centre as our native GP.

So I registered. I did it on-line and it took about 5 minutes. As promised, inside ten days I had been loaded onto their programs and all my digital medical historical past had been transferred.

They invited me by way of their app to come back in for a registration medical, providing various slots over per week.

I booked for 8am, opening time. After 25 years within the Army and the mantra ‘two minutes early is three minutes late’, in fact I used to be there sharp and chatting to fellow sufferers earlier than the doorways unlocked.

I skilled a really new buyer expertise referred to as the “patient kiosk”.

I adopted indicators to a room, the place I discovered a few bits of apparatus and a contact display screen.

It felt just like the beginnings of an escape room, a

favorite household pastime over time.

I adopted all of the directions, answered a great deal of questions and the machines took my blood stress and measured my top and weight.

Ten minutes and I used to be executed – and hadn’t seen a soul.

But I did want to speak to somebody a couple of repeat prescription.

A queue of 1 on the reception counter earlier than a pleasant and useful chap instructed me I’d need to see an precise physician earlier than they might situation the tablets.

I ought to go surfing and request an appointment and he would course of it.

There was a superb cell sign so I did it there after which and began to stroll house. Before I had bought to the home, my cellphone rang and a real-life human supplied me a collection of appointment decisions later that day.

I went to the appointment, noticed the physician and my repeat prescription was despatched to the pharmacy not far away prepared for assortment earlier than shut of enterprise.

In brief, the entire thing was the very best GP expertise I’ve ever had. And this from the GP observe which ten years earlier “shames Britain”.

Don’t get me flawed. Much of the NHS wants to alter, and alter radically. I want Labour Health Secretary Wes Streeting nothing however success in his mission.

But in that very same spirit, earlier than Keir Starmer gaslights the nation concerning the NHS being damaged, we do need to deal in details.

Some of it really works, and works fairly nicely.

And within the case of my GP’s surgical procedure, it has already been remodeled within the final ten years.

Reader, at all times take your tablets with a glass of water – and every thing Keir Starmer says with an enormous pinch of salt.