The nation was shocked to see the photo of Jack – a four-year-old child sick enough to require oxygen – lying on a pile of coats on the floor of Leeds General Infirmary.
But, sadly, you’ll struggle to find doctors and nurses who were shocked by this image.
Under-resourcing, under-staffing and over-work are the day-to-day realities of working on the NHS front line.
Be under no illusion about why this is –the NHS has been starved of money for the past nine years. The increase in funding recently announced is no bonanza that’s going to reverse the damage.
All it does is allow our hospitals to tread water financially for a little longer.
If you are planning to vote Conservative and value the NHS, you are truly a turkey voting for Christmas.
I have started to think that polling stations should be moved from village halls to hospitals, so that people have the NHS in the forefront of their minds when they’re choosing the future of the country.
This week you can change the record.
Voting tactically will kick out the people who dug this hole and prevent a hard Brexit that will be so desperately damaging to an NHS already on its knees.
