6/9/2023 0 Comments This is going to hurt memoir![]() ![]() Many TV series down the years have attempted to capture the NHS on screen, from documentaries like Hospital to the blackly funny Jo Brand sitcom Getting On. It is the thing that has delivered our babies, repaired our injuries, nursed our loved ones at the very end. ![]() But in the corridors of its hospitals, the NHS is not some grand political notion but a personal one. It owes its very existence to the socialist ideals of Aneurin “Nye” Bevan the fight for its survival is as much ideological as it is financial. The way it is often discussed on TV – in terms of budget cuts, staffing crises and promises emblazoned on the sides of buses – makes it sound all too often like a political football, an “issue” to be debated and exploited by parliament and media opinion-mongers. It can be easy to lose sight of exactly how much the National Health Service means to us. ![]()
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