In a recent article for the Conservative Home website, Emily Carver, head of media at the right-wing think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs, claimed the country is 'beginning to fall out of love with the NHS.'
In the piece, Ms Carver pointed to the huge backlogs faced by our nation's creaking health service as it tries to battle an enormous post-covid workload, staff sickness and continued virus cases. She suggested the NHS has gone from 'hero to zero' over the course of the pandemic and it is now time for a 'more sensible discussion about market-based reforms.'
This latter part is not a new narrative from those on the right, but the volume of the noises castigating our national health service and advocating for a bigger role for the private sector in our healthcare have been getting louder of late as the NHS continues through arguably its most difficult ever period.
