The reflections on how the NHS will need to adapt to survive the next 75 years are all good and aspirational.1 As is the government’s “workforce plan”2—which isn’t a workforce plan at all, merely another collection of words written, as usual, in the future tense. We are all “committed to” something—I’m committed to losing weight, but that means nothing in the here and now.The future of the NHS boils down to one question: does the UK want to regain, and then retain, its outstanding National Health Service, free at the point of use, regardless of the ability to pay? Some 90% of the population support those principles.3If the answer is yes, then every NHS worker, at every level, must say that—and only that. When asked for an opinion on anything by the media or the government, simply reply, “90% of people want the NHS returned to its prime place in…
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