The NHS is still coming under fire, except that nowadays the public are being persuaded to join in the attack.
The persuasion not only comes courtesy of the Tories and Farage’s mob, but also from the Labour government under Starmer.
Naturally the majority of the mass media have joined in the attacks and if you believed the garbage they spew out you would be looking out for endless queues of ambulances, while doctors and nurses check their bodily functions and give them blood transfusions in the back of the vehicles.
In truth the NHS, which has been trying to recover from Covid since 2020, has come on in leaps and bounds.
It doesn’t seem long since we were told we couldn’t expect an appointment with a doctor for at least two weeks.
Yet on the last Monday of December, the 29th, I rang my surgery and was given an appointment on the same day.
The doctor wanted a check made on me at the local hospital. It was a 14-day referral and if I hadn’t heard from them by 12th of January I was to call the surgery and they would chase it up.
The hospital called on 2nd January and I was offered an appointment for Friday, 9th January.
Now that is what my Cornish ancestors would call “a proper job”.
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