As a doctor, I’m no apologist for Wes Streeting – but here's where he's right about the NHS | Rachel Clarke
NHS ‘senior sources’ blasted the health secretary for admitting the service is broken. I applaud him for telling the truth
Good old anonymous senior sources in the NHS. You can always rely on them to tell you the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, can’t you? In their latest act of radical candour on behalf of patients and frontline staff, these cloak-and-dagger freelancers briefed the BBC about their growing unease at Wes Streeting’s insistence that the NHS is broken.
Speaking to the corporation ahead of the health secretary’s Labour party conference speech, the sources worried that Streeting’s unflinching descriptions of current NHS failings might “spook patients” and “make it really difficult to raise staff morale”, with one brave yet unnamed hospital leader muttering darkly: “If the government isn’t careful, it will cause lasting damage.”
Rachel Clarke is a palliative care doctor and the author of Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic
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NHS ‘senior sources’ blasted the health secretary for admitting the service is broken. I applaud him for telling the truth
Good old anonymous senior sources in the NHS. You can always rely on them to tell you the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, can’t you? In their latest act of radical candour on behalf of patients and frontline staff, these cloak-and-dagger freelancers briefed the BBC about their growing unease at Wes Streeting’s insistence that the NHS is broken.
Speaking to the corporation ahead of the health secretary’s Labour party conference speech, the sources worried that Streeting’s unflinching descriptions of current NHS failings might “spook patients” and “make it really difficult to raise staff morale”, with one brave yet unnamed hospital leader muttering darkly: “If the government isn’t careful, it will cause lasting damage.”
Rachel Clarke is a palliative care doctor and the author of Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic
Continue reading...
By Rachel Clarke
As a doctor, I’m no apologist for Wes Streeting – but here's where he's right about the NHS | Rachel Clarke to Continue reading...
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