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Spectator Out Loud: Mary Wakefield, Jenny McCartney & Robert Gore-Langton

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The NHS Is Still Salvageable

When the whole system is failing, nitpicking and nagging is all you can do. West Reading described the health service recently as still salvageable. It's quite something to hear the Labour Shadow Health Secretary so downbeat about our NHS. But I think where's his war? The man by now was sidling out of the door. So I had one lost crack at fixing this tiny broken link in the system. Can anyone add to Alice's notes? I asked him. Who should I tell so that we get two men in a stretcher next time? As if there was no reason for me to meddle. He neededn't have worried. They never pick up. When he

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