The NHS is still standing. But underfunding will soon bring it down | Polly Toynbee

NHS chief Simon Stevens has put his head above the parapet to demand more money. As things stand, one serious crisis will bring the service to its knees

Brexit squeezes the air out of everything. Well, there’s always room for another great British sex scandal or another crash-out from Theresa May’s dysfunctional cabinet. But otherwise Brexit has smothered all the burning issues that would normally fill front pages and lead news bulletins ahead of an eighth extreme austerity budget – police, prisons, social care, schools and everything else dangerously starved of funds.

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