Opinion

Moneo writes: We must fight to change the way NHS services are delivered

Moneo
Too many good clinicians have left and been lost to patients

Just recently I examined a GP. During the examination she told me how she had had enough of the NHS and that she was, as she put it, ‘getting out’.

I have known this lady since she was at school and I have known the struggles she went through to qualify as a GP and therefore I was shocked to realise just how she has been brought down by the NHS system.

For someone who has fought for years to do the job they desperately would love to do to give in made me realise just how bad this NHS really is. It also made me reflect on how resilient I must have been over the years. But then I began to think about which one of us was really the resilient one.

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