Editorial: We're born in the NHS, we die in the NHS. 75 years on, we must fight for our NHS.
It seems a lifetime away now, that balmy, surreal Spring evening in 2020 when the nation first took to the doorsteps to clap the NHS and care workers as the first lockdown began. It's easy to be cynical about that moment, but it demonstrated, in sharp relief, the love and gratitude this nation has for its health service.
We must ask: What do we lose if we lose the NHS? If we allow it to become a rickety shadow of its former self, or hollowed out for profit?The people who work in the NHS largely do so out of an abiding sense of public service, our health workers are underpaid and under enormous pressure - they perform daily miracles to keep the system afloat. Everyone has an NHS story, and they usually mention how lovely the staff were and how they are doing their best in difficult circumstances.
It's difficult to overstate how transformative the NHS was for working people in Britain when it arrived in 1948. From that moment on it was no longer the case that if you got sick you had to stay sick until you had the money for a doctor, or managed to beg help from a charity. 75 years later it is as vital and important as ever.
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