Britain's National Health Service was in crisis when COVID arrived in the UK.
After years of increasing demand and flatlining funding, the NHS was deeply broken.
One Chancellor called the NHS "the closest thing the English people have to a religion", so how was it left to fall into disrepair, on the edge of collapse, right as a catastrophic pandemic hit?
This is part 3 of our series, Who Broke Britain.
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