The NHS is poorly. We place an ice-cold stethoscope against the chest of the health service and what do we hear? Exhausted staff fuelled by red bull and bitterness. Money tumbles through its body like a Blackpool coin pusher, landing in the gaping maw of a private equity-owned foot scrape clinic. A man with a pitchfork through his head being told to lose weight. Diagnosis: It’s wrecked.

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Mandatory Redistribution Party is created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music from Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans.

This episode contains interviews with Student Nurse Josie Stripe, Occupational Therapist Erin Cullen and a student nurse and senior sister who chose to remain anonymous.