A Moment in Time
NHS workers have had their budgets cut every year for the past 10 years by a government that calls them essential workers and heroes - yet the same government actively fights their appeals for pay rises and fair treatment, even taking them to court.
Taken throughout the pandemic in England, this first-hand account from the perspective of staff working across the NHS helps us understand some of the struggles they’re facing - and after a pandemic where 175,000 died in the UK, this project aims to document those in our NHS at an unprecedented time in history.
Select images and handwritten notes from the project can be seen below.
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