The NHS Needs More Than Wes Streeting’s Ten-Year Plan—It Needs a Pulse

After hours spent waiting for a porter, a missed meal and a philosophical chat with a man who thought he was in a Travelodge, one thing’s clear… buzzwords won’t resuscitate a health service!

It was sometime around hour four of waiting for a hospital porter to wheel a close friend to radiology, that I concluded the NHS is not a healthcare system so much as an elaborate endurance sport. They’d already had one cannula inserted, one meal missed and one deeply philosophical conversation with an elderly man convinced he was in a Travelodge. To be…