I agree with the author's sentiments. Since the start of this continuing global crisis, the NHS has been a single-issue service. As such, it failed to serve the wider interests of the UK public and has failed to disburse its public funding per its obligations. It continues in this trajectory even now, with restrictions on life easing. The NHS is no longer fit for purpose.

The cause of the demise of the NHS is itself a single issue. The concept of "protecting the NHS" might have made some sense under the circumstances of mass death predicted by Neil Ferguson, with 250,000 - 500,000 deaths from SARS-Cov-2. However, although it very soon became clear that the modelling used was naive and the numbers were significantly inflated, the messaging prevailed and the NHS became a service focused single-mindedly on one issue.

We are seeing mounting evidence of the toll that the absence of a functioning public health service has taken on the nation's physical and mental health and wellbeing. The missed screenings, undiagnosed disease, untreated illnesses, pychological issues, deaths of despair, plus the lack of support for those with pre-existing conditions that has resulted in unnecessary suffering, pain, distress and worsened disease will haunt our nation for many years.

We now face a future with face-to-face GP consultations being replaced with primarily online consultations. Before this crisis, doctor-patient meetings were already limited in time and narrowly focused in their range of potential medical solutions, viz wait and watch, prescribe or refer. Moving to online consultations will weaken this already weak model even further, resulting most likely in further misdiagnoses and avoidable suffering and death.

The NHS is completely unfit for purpose. It needs to be rebuilt immediately and both its senior management and the coven of MPs responsible for it removed from their posts.

Yours, etc

Luke B