So according to Jim Gee, chief executive of NHS Security Management Services, “the NHS really is a privilege for people and, if you abuse that privilege, then it will be taken away”. And there’s me thinking that the NHS was a national service to provide healthcare, free at the point of delivery, paid for by the taxes of the people of this country (and, if you believe the Daily Mail, provided to the people of most other countries). Seriously, I don’t think that is how it is supposed to work. Are we really saying that public services can be denied to people who do something which the chief of security (or anyone else for that matter) regards as being abuse of those public services?