Image: Elly Robson
Yesterday’s Junior Doctors’ strike was a historic moment in the battle to save the NHS. Up until now, the process of back-door privatisation has obscured the slow asphyxiation of the NHS. To Jeremy Hunt’s alarm, the doctors’ strike has acted as a rallying cry in the fight for a well-resourced free, public, and democratic health service for all.
Everyone has their own NHS story; most of us have several. For me, it was the incredible care I received when I shattered my shinbone in a bicycle accident; a junior doctor pieced it back together with seven pins and a plate. After six months of weekly NHS physiotherapy, a further operation to remove scar tissue saw me back in working order. It’s fitting, then, that because of Junior Doctors and the NHS I was able to get back on my bike yesterday to participate in a ‘flying’ bicycle picket to support their strike.
