In the middle of the election campaign, I collapsed, and they thought I was having a heart attack. Eight hours later after experiencing the ambulance and hospital care, I was diagnosed with something called labyrinthitis and now thanks to the wonderful NHS I am fit and well. I was lucky, the service was fantastic, but for over seven million people on the growing NHS waiting list the story is not good. Many have been waiting for years for simple operations. Worse still, the average ambulance and A and E waiting times have been getting so dangerously long that people have been dying as they wait…
