It saddens me the narrative of the NHS letting people down.
Imagine having 100 staff, including GPs, nurses and physios.
Then increase acute illness in the population and also a need for potential solation and infection (not just in the staff but also their children). Add stress and longterm sickness too due to workload.
As people become more unwell the priorities of the staff go from treating long term conditions that are generally survivable to life threatening ones.
So the Gps suddenly have more acutely unwell people attending. They also have to have 10 days off if their children are sent from school. Add extra time for PPE and cleaning. And the fact surgeries are not fit for purpose in waiting areas. sit 10 vulnearable patients in a waiting area with a covid positive one (possibly unaware) then you have problems. So capacity is stretched. Add to that people are not getting as ill with covid, so the burden is on GPs in the Community now. Oh and all the long covid, with no services to meet their needs so they go to the GP too.
Then you have wards getting busier, so the services such at physio/ occupational therapy/ podiatry etc have to redeploy to the wards to support the acute care leaving those services with reduced capacity. These services have cut costs by 5% year on year for 10 years as part of 'streamlining' (which is 95% staff costs) already stretched with pre covid waiting lists often at 3 months+ already. Suddenly capacity is down anything from 10% a week to 30.
Throw a vaccination programme nationally. Where do the staff come from? That same pot of GPS, nurses and physios as you can't magic healthcare staff from thin air. One service im aware of lost 12 of 15 staff to a vaccination programme (they didn't transfer, in effect they all moved to new jobs so the service couldn't do anything about it). That service is almost obsolete.
God help the nhs if a group of staff all went to the pub together for down time and there was an outbreak- you'd lose a full service for 10 days. That backlog would never be regained.
As cases rise, more people will require either community, Gp, or hospital care. more nhs staff will catch it and be off sick (some may develop long covid, of note severity isn't indicative of post viral ME/ fatigue etc.).
More households will be isolating.
More children/ families will have care needs.
It is short sighted to think that pretending covid doesn't exist/ dropping precautions/ running things "normally" is realistic at present.
I think it is fair to blame the NHS for failing to provide you with care. They have.
The reasons aren't because covid is prioritised, its because the system is underfunded and overstretched. And keeping people alive is the priority.
If you want to look at nursing/ nhs staff shortages pre covid, system funding and rising waiting times you will see a lot of the complaints of NHS failure pre date covid by quite a margin.
. I guess one 'bonus' is you've had a mild case and double jabbed. So I'm imagining you can't get it again. 
