It’s time we stopped taking our health service for granted
Jane Bates Ophthalmic nurse, Hampshire
‘You don’t get owt for nowt,’ my mother-in-law would say with a trace of suspicion in her voice. She was in her twenties in 1948 when the NHS was born, and never quite accepted that you could get healthcare for ‘nothing’.
Nursing Standard.
33, 4, 11-11.
doi: 10.7748/ns.33.4.11.s7
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