LONDON. Despite the fact that he was entitled by a genuine star and set up in one of the leading London theaters, the game on the basis of an extensive and worried public service seemed to be unlikely to provoke the night after the night of standing applause.
But this is what happened to Nye, an unlikely hit about the creator and the history of origin financed by taxpayers financed by taxpayers.
The play, written by Tim Price and director of Rufus Norris, came to Excess point for NHSAs is known. Almost 80 years after it was founded, the medical service, which was once advertised, because the envy of the world is “broken” and suffered “the largest crisis in its history,” the government says. A Crisis in this national breed It is part Great malaise at the heart of British culture: Rising prices, stagnant wages and destroying public services.
“I am in horror, not only for NHS, but for our entire society.” Michael ShinWhich starred in the role of Aneerene “Na”, the founder of NHS, said NBC News in an interview. “As soon as this demolished, then I think that people will think about what they have lost.”
56 -year -old Shin is better known for the international audience as Tony Blair in the “Queen”, David Frost in Frost/Nixon and Angel AziRaphal in the series of Amazon Prime “good omen”, spent most of the last two years, honing his image of Bevan, a socialist policy that pulled himself out
Despite the fact that the second nature for the British, the ideal of the NHS is unfamiliar to many Americans: the British have universally free medical care at the access point – from ambulances visiting automobile accidents to diabetes to cancer to childbirth. Although some people have private insurance, the idea of choosing between illness and financial ruins is shocking in the UK
Now Labor PartyWhich created the then Radical NHS in 1948, fights with its own economic restrictions and record unpopularity. He has a colossal task if it should fix the destructive hospitals replete with overloaded doctors and corridors covered with bed.
Prime Minister -Keir Starmer A hippo should deploy, the budget of which is 200 billion English pounds ($ 269 billion)) is about 40% of all government expenses, and whose 1.4 million employees are the seventh largest labor force in the world. In the United States only the Ministry of Defense, Walmart and Amazon by number.
Through all this, NHS maintains the main ideal. Everyone in the UK has a story about a relative or themselves, receiving a type of world class care, which creates a terrifying financial burden on millions of Americans. (Over the past six years, the reporter’s mother had one mastectomy and reconstruction, as well as three titanium plates in a broken ankle, not paying a pound for care.)
But stories are equally common about how the softener, the clock expects that in the tanking departments of emergency care or delay in the week just to see a doctor of the general community. Many critics accuse the stretching crisis of many years of underfunding by the now constructed conservative government of 2010-2024, whose reaction to the financial crisis of 2008 was to make sharp reductions in public services.
It may not be surprising that the liberal London audience responded with applause and tears of Bevan's hagiography at the National Theater. Although fans are relatively unknown in a wide society, fans see in Bvan the father of modern Britain; His ideal NHS today is not just popular, he determines the country itself.
“This is far from perfect,” said 40 -year -old Alison Ferris, a nurse in a hospital in Kenterbury, in the south -east of England. “But I do everything that I can so that anyone who comes in front of me. I turn to each patient, as if I would treat my loved ones. ”
Although the concept remains revered, public satisfaction in NHS in practice amounted to 52% in 2023 from a maximum of 70% in 2010, according to the King's Fund fund, the leading analytical center that tracks the British healthcare.
“We must fight for NHS, just like NHS, I fought when it was created,” said Ferris's mother, 70 -year -old Caroline Hegi, a representative of the hospital’s union, who, like her daughter, came to see the last night of New York in the National Theater last month. “We cannot go on the path of privatization, we cannot follow the path of America. This is what we are faced with. ”
Like Bevan, Shin is a Welsh firewoman, not afraid to wear his left policy. But he also lived for 14 years in Los -Angeles, so he knows too well what life without socialized medical care looks like.
“The idea of this healthcare system that we have here simply seemed to them so alien to them,” says Shin, who now lives in his Welbot’s hometown, says his former American hosts. He says that “the vision of people goes to hospitals with serious injuries or diseases, and he is asked to produce their check book before they can be treated,” most British will shock.
The crisis in NHS coincides with the growth of hostility in relation to immigrants – even if they are often doctors, nurses and hospitals. Almost 20% of NHS employees have a nation -nationalityWith Indians, Filipinos, Nigerians, Irish and Poles, which make up most of their number.
Nigel Faraj, party leader with the tough reform of Great Britain and ally and friend of President Donald TrumpHe conducts some polls to become the next prime minister of Britain. He became the first potential leader to question the tax financing model for financing NHS – historically taboos.
“This does not work – it does not work,” said Faraj NBC News' British Partner News Sky News in May. “We get worse for the dollar than any other country, especially from these European neighbors.”
However, opposition to the proposal, the pharability leaves an open ghost of privatization, which, according to many, crawl even before the Law on Health and Social Assistance of 2012 opened NHS for applications from private contractors.
The headlight is not the only person dissatisfied. Indeed, NHS slipped away from being the leader of the world in many indicators.
Corridor Care is currently a year -round crisis, and the number of people waiting for 12 hours or more will be accepted into the emergency department, has grown from 47 in the summer of 2015 to 74,150 years this summer. For many years, goals lagged behind in everything, from the time of ambulance attendance to cancer diagnoses. Meanwhile, a 7-million-billion expectation list means that many people feel abandoned for several months, from pain, before replacing the hip or knee knee and other types of operations.
There is enough evidence that the policy of economic economic economy, imposed within 14 years of the reign of the Conservative Party, is at least partially guilty, according to Max Warner, the senior research economist from the Institute of Financial Research, the London Research Group.
“It is true that many NHS performance indicators in the 2010s generally worsened, starting relatively well,” he said. “Although it is worth saying that the performance grew, so it is difficult, that a nuanced picture and causality.”
Conservatives claimed that they continued to spend NHS, protecting it from cruel abbreviations, which at that time crushed almost all other government departments. But this 2% annual growth will still not reach 3.8% on average per year since the 1980s, and, according to critics, it was not enough to cope with the aging population and growing prices for modern medicines.
It was far from envy of the world, Britain seemed to spend 37 billion pounds (53 billion dollars) on health services every year, which is much lower than Germany, France and Australia, A significant review found last yearField
The current Labor Government outlined plans to increase expenses up to 3% – improvement, but still there was not enough that many defenders hoped. At his annual conference, the Labor Party this week Starmer announced that the NHS Online digital revision will be launched in 2027, describing it as a “new chapter in our NHS history”.
Ultimately, whatever the model, the money is key, according to Roy Lilly, who in the 1990s controlled the NHS hospital as the chairman of Homewood NHS Trust in Surrei, west of London.
“It doesn’t matter how you pay for your medical care,” Lilly said, today a consultant, whose information ballot reaches 300,000 mailboxes. “Regardless of whether you take it out of your pocket marked by“ insurance ”, or you take it out of your pocket marked by“ taxes ”, these are still your trousers.”
However, it remains optimistic, pointing to improving expectations and general recovery from a pandemic hammer, which drained resources and mental scars.
Nevertheless, tires – it is never embarrassed to mix acting games with activism – believes that it is no coincidence that NHS is in a crisis, when its history of origin begins to disappear from living memory.
“The crisis, which we seem to worry, makes it more important to return to the beginning and look at what stood behind the foundation of NHS, and what were the principles,” he said. “It becomes incredibly important to tell the story of this and remind people about what it was actually so that we would not forget.”
