2021 will be a tough year for the NHS.
There are now 4.4 million people on waiting lists, and a hundred times more people are waiting over a year for treatment than before COVID hit. A third pandemic wave is likely to welcome in the New Year.
But what worries me even more are the people and organisations who have used the pandemic to grab control of our health service, and who will use the next year to consolidate their power, and to reshape the NHS in their interests, not ours.