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MATT HANCOCK
Rishi Sunak knows NHS is the best gift a nation could have given itself — it’s in his blood
THE NHS is the best gift a nation could have given itself.
Rishi Sunak gets that — it’s in his blood.
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His dad was a doctor and his mother was a pharmacist.
But he also gets that the NHS beat Covid only to face another crisis — the groaning backlogs that must be slashed now.
Many Sun readers will know the utter misery of spending months on waiting lists.
I know Rishi will take a sledgehammer to this backlog.
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His plan to assemble a crack team to smash waiting times is based on the heroic vaccines taskforce I witnessed first hand during the pandemic.
Rishi realises this drive that won us the Covid war must not be lost, but used again in this emergency.
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