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When you clap on your doorstep for the NHS, please remember the Tories’ decade of cuts
JON TAIT’s wife was a nurse for 22 years and feels the pressure to go back – but, without adequate PPE thanks to chronic underfunding, it’s a dangerous step to take
Two actors wearing Nick Clegg (right)and David Cameron masks break a heart, with the words NHS printed on it, during a protest by Unison union members against the Health and Social Care Bill, at the gates of Downing Street in London

I KNEW when I married a nurse that she was as committed to the NHS and her patients as she was to me.

All of us that have partners who work in the National Health Service are familiar with the long shifts, the emotional drain, the scrutiny and mental pressure that they work under every day.

I was a construction worker when I met my wife, who was then just starting on the old four-year degree as a student. 

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