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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Rachael Bletchly

'Proper reforms are needed to save our sacred NHS, we don't need misplaced worship'

It was great to see folk gathering at Westminster Abbey to celebrate 75 years of the National Health Service.

Aneira Thomas, the first NHS baby, was there along with patients giving thanks for decades of life-saving ­treatments and relatives offering prayers for lost loved ones.

And, of course, there were the staff – the nurses, doctors, paramedics and others who provide the “cradle to the grave care” which seemed so miraculous in 1948.

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