![]() ![]() ![]() THE BIG ISSUE: When we last spoke, we were talking about the NHS being in dire straits. So we arranged another consultation with Kay. Waiting times for operations are longer than ever, staff shortages are at record levels and many see an existential threat to the NHS on the horizon. Two years in, the adaptation of Kay’s bestselling 2017 memoir This is Going to Hurt – with Ben Whishaw in brilliant form as the fictionalised Adam, an exhausted, stressed, overworked and under-supported acting registrar – arrives on BBC One at a worrying time for the NHS. Little did any of us know that we were on the verge of a global pandemic. The NHS, the doctors, nurses and all other workers within it, he told us, were running on empty. ![]() He explained, with quietly restrained fury, how every day was like Christmas in the NHS – and not in a good way, not as something to celebrate, but rather because on a daily basis there were barely enough staff to cope. The last time Adam Kay spoke to The Big Issue was towards the end of 2019. ![]()
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