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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Robyn Vinter Sammy Gecsoyler and Mabel Banfield-Nwachi

‘I’m here because I care’: junior doctors on NHS picket lines

Having grown up in Romania and spent some time in hospital as a child, Dr Cristina Costache thinks she has seen the future of the NHS if the government does not urgently invest in its staff and services.

The kind of specialist paediatric work Costache does across two hospitals in Leeds is done by voluntary organisations in Romania and resources are thin on the ground, which is why she began working in the UK seven years ago.

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