To help shorten waiting lists, Sir Rod Stewart has donated enough money to cover a day's worth of MRI scans for patients at his neighborhood NHS hospital.
The musician, who is from Essex, stopped by the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow while some scans were going on.
After just getting back from getting a scan himself, he called a live phone-in on Sky News last month and offered to pay for others' hospital scans.
According to Sir Rod, he wanted to "prove I'm not all mouth and pants.".
The 77-year-old's donation will pay for a day's worth of patient scans that were being done at the hospital's mobile MRI scanning unit by the private healthcare company InHealth.
I had just returned from my scan at a private facility close to Harley Street, the man said.
"I walked in and apologized profusely for being 30 minutes late.
Don't worry, they assured me, hardly anyone was present today.
There were eight people who had very little to do. Then I concluded that this was a great injustice, and so here we are. ".
The singer expressed his desire for this act to not be a one-time occurrence, saying: "If this is a big success, which I believe it will be, I'd like to do it in Belfast, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Manchester, and just keep it going, and hope some other people follow me.
"I'm here to show that I followed through because I want to show that I'm not all mouth and no pants," the speaker explains. ".
Even though he claimed he didn't want to discuss politics, he admitted there must be funds available to pay for these nurses when questioned about the state of the NHS. We were clapping just two years ago, and now.
They are the salt of the earth; bless them, they work so hard. ".
"Really, we need to solve this. We're in serious trouble. ".
He claimed that he felt in a "privileged position" because he had "earned my money and I want to help people, it's that simple.".
He met Omarie Ryan, 36, a patient there who had traveled from London for a knee scan.
The meeting, in Mr. Ryan's words, was "a dream come true.".
The day of scans sponsored by Sir Rod, according to Stephanie Lawton, the hospital's chief operating officer, will help cut the waiting list by roughly 10%, or 20 patients.
"Rod is a local resident, we are his local hospital, and we are really thrilled to be working with him and his team for the benefit of patients and doing everything we can to reduce the waiting lists," she said.
