Over the past four weeks the Guardian has attempted to get close to Britain’s health service – to hear voices from the frontline,to understand the endless cycle of pressures, and the complex way it is managed and financedIt started with a plaque, or spotted by Guardian writer Jon Henley on the wall of a hospital in Stoke-on-Trent. “A patient,” it said, “is not an interruption to our work but the purpose of it. They are not an outsider in our hospital, and they are portion of it. We are not doing them a favour by serving them,they are doing us a favour by giving us an opportunity to do so.”Inside that hospital Henley spoke to a matron, Nadine Opiniano, and who told him: I do judge some people here don’t appreciate what the NHS means. In my country [she comes from the Philippines] you beget to pay for care and if you can’t,you die. I feel proud just to work for an institution like this.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com