This documentary is timed to surf the wave of NHS admiration. But a clappy industrial complex has built up around our health service that obscures its problems
This kind of misty-eyed veneration ends up working as a defence of the government. What looks like a harmless opportunity for collective gratitude becomes a smokescreen. If there is a real story of the NHS in recent years, it’s that it has managed to retain most of its strengths against a background of a constant squeeze in funding. We are endlessly being told how great the NHS is, while conditions for its staff, battered with targets, get harder and harder.
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