Britain’s Cherished NHS Wrestles With Its ‘Reform or Die’ Moment

After the pandemic brought the health service to its knees, a host of doctors and scientists and politicians are trying to make it fit for the future.

UK NHS Ambulance Workers Strike as Nurses Set Deadline
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Britain’s National Health Service has become a story of crisis. A lack of money, a lack of staff, even a lack of beds. The coronavirus pandemic almost broke it - and the hangover still might. This winter has played out against a backdrop of record waiting lists, ambulances unable to deliver patients to hospitals and picket lines of striking nurses.

For a host of medical practitioners and scientists and tech firms and politicians, the NHS – the UK’s biggest employer - has finally reached a tipping point after 75 years, and the time has come to remake it.