Happy 75th birthday to the National Health Service – but we must fight hard to rescue and revive this vital public service if is to last another 75 years.
The vultures are circling after the Tories imposed the tightest financial strait-jacket in the NHS’s history.
A record 7.4 million were waiting to start treatment by the end April, three years after Covid struck. And there are too few beds, scanners and staff.