The true, eye-opening account of how the NHS has been failed and what we can do to save it. The NHS is at crisis point. In the 75 years since it was founded on the dream of making healthcare accessible to everyone, its principles have been slowly chipped away and disregarded by successive political leaders. The result is an underfunded, understaffed, exhausted workforce, a decimation of patient services, and the infiltration of privatisation within our public healthcare system. It is a valued part of our society, extraordinarily special, a workplace for many and birthplace for most of us, but now we are in danger of losing what we have come to depend upon. The NHS is collapsing and a two-tier healthcare system is emerging in its place. We can stop this, but only if we do it together says Dr Julia Grace Patterson, founder of EveryDoctor and fierce advocate for the future of the NHS. She lays bare the truth about the current state of our healthcare system and sets forth transformational ideas on how we could save it. Here are words from the heart: 'When the senior doctors left the wards, to run busy clinics, carry out operations, or assess new patients in A&E, I'd be left, holding a pile of blood request forms and often scratching my head about what my patients needed,' Her intention is to 'hold the government to account by drawing attention to the common experiences of frontline doctors, particularly the systematic problems being caused by the governmental cuts, which were causing unsafe and unfair situations for patients and staff.' 212pp.
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