The Royal Southern hospital down by the old Liverpool docks. 9 o’clock on Saturday morning. Across the road the Casualty department is about to begin a new shift. World in Action: The Blood & Guts Shift, ITV 1975
The weekend shift is always busy with bottle fights, drug overdoses, pub brawls. They call it the Blood & Guts shift. ibid.
Is the NHS at breaking point? As the gaps widen between expectation and reality – hospital gridlock, falling GP numbers, and an overwhelmed social care system – the NHS was set up to be free at the point at use but what does that look like in 2024. Darren McGarvey: The State We’re In s1e3: Health, BBC 2024
Our former health secretary Matt Jancock … a story of good old-fashioned British political idiocy … Whether he’s an idiot or a corrupted and self-absorbed weasel. Just Some Geezer podcast: Matt Hancock: How to Profit From Your Moral Failures,
Breaching the ministerial code and squandering billions of pounds in government contracts is … bad? ibid.
Failure to publish billions of pounds of coronavirus-related contracts. ibid.
Covid: Government’s PPE ‘VIP lane’ unlawful, court rules. ibid. Online article 12th January 2022
In these messages Johnson refers to Hancock as ‘totally fucking useless’. ibid.
He’s gone and signed a contract with ITV to appear on, I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here. ibid.