I’m often told that people are sick of hearing about the appalling legacy of 14 years of Conservative government. But it is the real-terms pay cuts, the erosion of working conditions, and the deterioration in patient care seen over more than a decade that still make the lives of NHS staff so hard.
The Darzi investigation, published last September, was very clear where the blame lies for the crisis in the NHS: it was the Tories’ austerity, mismanagement, and a botched top-down reorganisation that broke the health service, not its workforce.
