# NHS (National Health Service, UK)

15 Hacker News commenters recommended NHS (National Health Service, UK) and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 8 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Free national healthcare, with an app that gives patients their records, reorders prescriptions and offers medical information. Critics say records are often incomplete and care varies by area.

## Why people recommend it

- Free, high-quality care (5 comments): "The NHS (back then, a quarter century ago, now) was amazing." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46152466)) "I stand by NHS being the only great thing we have left." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46569244)) "This is one of the great things about the NHS" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022245))
- Patient records available in app (2 comments): "the NHS app makes all your detailed health history (doctors notes, scan results etc.) available to you as the patient" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46538039)) "you can mostly access any previous information but its not always fully populated" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46620412))
- Trusted, better than US system (2 comments): "The NHS is much better for most people than what the US has, but I don't think a person on earth would suggest using it as a model" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375099)) "I trust the NHS, older CDC pages, Mayo clinic as platforms" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46771166))

## What people warn about

- Patient records often incomplete (2 comments): "you can mostly access any previous information but its not always fully populated" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46620412)) "The new NHS app is great, but I can see from my history that > 90% is missing." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625383))

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.nhs.uk/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "NHS (National Health Service, UK)", https://hackerapproved.com/p/nhs/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).