SO PRECIOUS BUT NOW AT RISK OF BEING LOST TO US ALL

COVID exposed the failings which already existed in our failing NHS.

But the yawning chasm which has opened between what we should expect of the NHS and what is being delivered cannot continue.

Too many patients are suffering for months - or even years - without treatment.

We all knew patients were waiting too long before Covid but successive health secretaries before and after the pandemic failed to get a grip on the ridiculously long lists.