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'Mobile' communications (basically everything that can be done on a smart phone) due to govt freeing up frequencies
TV and radio choice/quality, same reason
Goods deliveries to the home, due to govt deregulation (remember the days of 'please allow 21 days for delivery'?)
Early contact with NHS (through 111 for instance), I've found it excellent albeit the first responders sometimes tell you what you already know
Access to GPs and/or services that we used to expect from GPs, the evidence I've seen is that its about how well surgeries are organised, not funding especially.
Integration between GPs and hospitals, my experience is that (govt funded) initiatives have made that waaay better
NHS app. Brilliant where the professionals populate it promptly and properly
Payment schemes for prescriptions
Payment schemes for 'ladies' things'
Access to ombudsman schemes and sanctions for bodies who they judge to have failed
Public ransport (buses), on major routes. Cleaner, comfier, more reliable although that may be over a longer timeframe than 10 years
Air quality due to govt green initiatives
etc
"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the government ever done for us?"