Happy birthday, NHS – But will it survive privatisation?

Happy birthday, NHS – But will it survive privatisation?

“We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit,” wrote author Cory Doctorow.  Doctorow had coined the phrase “enshittification,” that is the slow degradation of services due to profit-driven motives, in 2022, and in 2024 it was crowned Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year. In April, in a British Medical Journal (BMJ) paper entitle…