Keep up to date with all the big stories from across Greater Manchester in the daily Mancunian Way newsletter. You can receive the newsletter direct to your inbox every weekday by signing up right here. Here's the Mancunian Way for today: Hello, A health service for all, free at the point of use - it’s a doctrine that has become something of a religion here in Britain.
The National Health Service is a point of huge pride in our country, and with good reason. But it’s been sick for a long time.
It has become an institution we measure in winters. And one that is drawn into sharp focus only when advance predictions of hospitals being overwhelmed are proved correct, time-and-time again.
As medics continue to strike, patients’ face ever long waiting lists and staff battle through despite years of underfunding, it’s clear it will take radical change to fully revive the NHS.
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