Health champions

DESPITE pledges that the NHS will escape the huge cuts faced in other parts of the public sector, patients and staff are bracing themselves for significant upheaval in the years ahead.
By The Newsroom
Published 9th Jul 2010, 21:22 BST
Updated 9th Jul 2010, 21:22 BST

Already plans are being laid for 20bn in savings as a decade of huge increases in funding come to an end and the Health Service is forced to make do with what it already has.

Clearly this will place increased demands in particular on more than 150,000 staff in Yorkshire's NHS as well as their counterparts working in social care.

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The NHS is undoubtedly one of this country's greatest creations and an enormous force for good. Today, the Yorkshire Post is launching the NHS Health and Social Care Hero of the Year Award 2010 to recognise the work of staff across health and social care sectors who daily make a difference to people's lives.

The sheer scale of work carried out by the NHS remains hard to comprehend. Some 150,000 people each day seek treatment in the region from GPs, community nurses and mental health workers, while 5,000 patients visit A&E.

Yet, because the NHS is such a bedrock of national life, it is too often taken for granted. Our awards seek to highlight the outstanding work of unheralded individuals in all walks of health and social care whose dedication might otherwise pass without notice. There are tens of thousands of people who could win this award. Now it is time to recognise and applaud their enormous talent and professionalism.

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