Winter crisis shows UK health service at ‘tipping point’
Britain's NHS public health service has been the country&039;s pride since 1948, but is currently gripped by a "humanitarian crisis" due to alleged "third world" conditions that are piling pressure on Prime Minister Theresa May. The stark image of 22-month-old Jack Harwood, wearing only a nappy, stretched across two plastic chairs while waiting to see a doctor in an Accident and Emergency ward dominated the front page of the Daily Mirror newspaper on Friday, laying bare the depth of the winter crisis. Doctors and hospitals have said the National Health Service (NHS) is "approaching a tipping point", with every winter putting increasing stress on the free-at-point-of-use service, described as a "national religion" by former minister Nigel Lawson.
