Views from an NHS Otherworld
Editorial
Emily Trahair
This year, discomfortingly coinciding with a celebration of its seventy-fifth birthday, there is a barrage of news stories about the NHS in crisis in all nations of the UK. As this crisis state becomes a permanent news item there is a danger it becomes normalised; and on the part of the Westminster government accepted, or even encouraged through managed decline, almost as if within the Tory imagination the NHS is now an elderly person reaching the end of their natural life-span. However, for workers in the NHS and all those needing its care this is not a crisis that you can become benumbed to, nor one that we should become resigned to as in any way inevitable.
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Emily Trahair is Editor of Planet.
