Gavin and Stacey's Alison Steadman calls Britain ‘third world country’ over state of NHS
express.co.ukGavin and Stacey actress Alison Steadman, 76, has described how “people are dying” as a direct result of our NHS being underfunded.The star, who played beloved character Pam Shipman in the popular BBC sitcom, slammed Tory ministers for their “ridiculous” and “disgraceful” failure to address pay increases for nurses.
Following the news that nurses have been on strike due to low pay, health unions have offered to call off walkouts beginning on Thursday.Their condition was that Health Secretary Steve Barclay agree to hold negotiations on pay, but the minister has refused.Sympathetic to the plight of nurses across the country, Alison weighed in on the issue, insisting that our country no longer deserves the name of “Great” Britain due to the “appalling” state of our NHS.The comedic actress, who is a patron of Keep Our NHS Public, said there are not enough doctors, nurses and ambulance workers to allow the system to function as it should.Alison described how the NHS has been “underfunded” and “not respected in the way it should be”, slamming the last 12 years of Tory rule.She said: “We've all had experience of there just not being enough nurses and not being enough ambulances.
It is just diabolical that people are being kept in ambulances for 12 hours outside A&E. It is just not on.“People are dying because they can't get into hospital.
We need more nurses, more doctors, more ambulance workers. We need more hospitals.”The actress went on to recall seeing a “poor elderly woman” who had fallen in the entrance of a Sainsbury’s when she went shopping earlier this year.
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