THE NHS ISSUE

For obvious reasons the last two years of pandemic have seen our health care system laser focused on ba ling coronavirus – but what has the e ect been on our already over-stretched NHS? Health Commi ee chair Jeremy Hunt tells Eleanor Langford of his proposals for restoring the ba ered service, while we hear from parliamentarians about the impact of the treatment backlog on conditions ranging from stroke care to sickle cell disease, mental health and long Covid. John Johnston reports on a service that currently lies outside the NHS but probably shouldn’t – palliative care – and Kate Proctor provides a personal account of the overlooked conditions of endometriosis and adenomyosis.