Why I had to quit the NHS

Nurse reveals shocking flaws in health service

- LIZZIE BENNY

I believe that what was once an incredible institution that served the population from birth to death has been hijacked by pharmaceutical companies and the technocratic banking elite that run them and control the World Health Organisation

WHEN I trained as a nurse, I received a bursary which paid my university fees, and I was entitled to a student loan.

I was guaranteed a career, and although probably only two-thirds of my cohort ended up working in the NHS, we were all trained by it as the gold standard, and for most, that is where we wanted to be.

But I soon learned that the NHS, and in particular mental health services, were not the well-oiled machine I had naively expected.

With my final placement, I struck gold with the Early Intervention in Psychosis Team. This team nurtured me for the next five years. I grew professionally and personally.

I then accepted a post in a quiet rural location on the south coast. Naively, I thought that all NHS Trusts around the country were operated the same, and had the same familial and supportive culture as the team in the Trust I had left behind.

There were some major red flags from the beginning: the induction on my first day started with a very stern presentation on fraud within the NHS, telling us that the majority of fraud against the NHS is committed by staff and that they would prosecute.