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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jedidajah Otte and Clea Skopeliti

‘I would not want to be in anyone else’s hands’: six people on how the NHS saved their lives

Woman with arms around two boys.
Jo Wright says she owes her life and her sons’ lives to the NHS. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

As Britain’s National Health Service turns 75, six people share how the NHS has saved their lives over seven decades, thanks to pioneering medical advances, swift action in emergencies and staff who went above and beyond.

‘I contracted polio in 1949, aged two’

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