Update: The NHS is actually imploding. It's a mixture of lack of money, lack of foreign (EU) workers, a wave of early retirement because of Covid and a huge increase in sick leave also mainly because of Covid.
Waiting an hour and a half for an ambulance when you have a stroke or heart attack is the sort of thing that has long term consequences for your recovery, even if you don't die of it immediately.
The German health system is also imploding. It was systematically dismantled by the previous governments in the past 15 years and then came COVID, during which nothing was done to improve the situation. Scores of burnt out health workers have left since 2020.
https://news.sky.com/story/nhs-crisis-how-did-we-get-here-an...
Waiting an hour and a half for an ambulance when you have a stroke or heart attack is the sort of thing that has long term consequences for your recovery, even if you don't die of it immediately.