If you’re thinking the NHS cannot possibly appropriate any more of the country’s time, energy, resources and money, the Institute for Fiscal Studies warns otherwise.
If staff hear a constant flow of worst-case scenarios presented as the norm, it understandably affects their anxiety levels.
Yet the role of the Tories, under Churchill’s leadership, in the development of the NHS is today entirely forgotten, and so is his Health Minister’s contribution.
We are still trying to clear the backlog created by Covid-19; industrial action will mean more delays and more preventable suffering.