🩺 JujuliaGrace gave up her medical job to campaign about the ‘horrifying’ situation in the NHS She fears another winter disaster is inevitable in just a few months – because not enough is being done now 🎙️ Interview by robhastings
and their staff, who she argues are victims of systemic problems but are suffering personal abuse after criticisms in the media.
Rishi Sunak has made the NHS one of his five priorities as Prime minister but critics say the Government isn’t doing enough to improve things When Patterson graduated from medical school in 2010 and began working in the NHS, “I didn’t consider myself to be ‘political’,” she writes inBut that year coincided with the election of David Cameron, whose chancellor George Osborne was about to introduce his signature policy of austerity to reduce public spending.
She was on maternity leave during the dispute over a new junior doctors’ contract, in which she says the Government “behaved ruthlessly” and “misrepresented the facts to the public”. When her baby was asleep, she began reading more about how the NHS is run, devouring policy documents and think tank studies. She felt increasingly frustrated that “the trade unions, the Royal Colleges, weren’t speaking up effectively about what the Government was doing”.
Patterson is also proud of setting up a support network for healthcare professionals during the pandemic, which “made a big difference to a lot of people” and has taken part in 25 parliamentary briefings.The Covid-19 pandemic is having long-term and delayed impact on the well-being of NHS doctors, according to Dr Patterson.
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