The panel will be discussing how the NHS has performed during the pandemic, amid new government plans for another reorganisation. The Guardian debate is chaired by Denis Campbell.
The event is held online, 12 May, 7pm. You can book tickets here.
The ongoing pandemic has challenged every institution in the UK – and none more so than the NHS. Though held in high esteem by the public, our health service has come up against overwhelming difficulties, from oversubscribed hospitals and cancelled operations, to a workforce that is at breaking point.
Has a decade of austerity left the NHS poorly prepared for the pandemic? Will Boris Johnson’s reform plans help or hinder the health service?
The panel, chaired by Guardian health policy editor Denis Campbell, will include frontline doctor and vest-selling author Dr Rachel Clarke, and Sir David Nicholson, who ran the health service in England until 2014.
They will examine the Herculean efforts of NHS staff during the huge difficulties thrown up by the pandemic and ask: how can we protect and improve the NHS we love and cherish so much?