1:31:35 > 1:31:37It's just those times when you've been at work
1:31:37 > 1:31:40and you literally haven't stopped, and then...
1:31:40 > 1:31:42..and then, you come back the next night,
1:31:42 > 1:31:46and you find out someone you'd spent all your time with has died,
1:31:46 > 1:31:48and it's even worse when you think that, perhaps,
1:31:48 > 1:31:53things could have been different, if only...
1:31:53 > 1:31:55..you know, you hadn't been doing the job of two people.
1:31:55 > 1:31:59We are now coming to yet another winter where all elective
1:31:59 > 1:32:01operations have been cut this year.
1:32:01 > 1:32:03Patients have been waiting and waiting,
1:32:03 > 1:32:06and now they've been told they've got to wait even longer.
1:32:06 > 1:32:08I've had people die
1:32:08 > 1:32:10waiting for an ambulance,
1:32:10 > 1:32:13where I felt that if we had got them to hospital,
1:32:13 > 1:32:14they would have survived.
1:32:14 > 1:32:17When I started training to be a nurse, we used to receive
1:32:17 > 1:32:21a bursary, which didn't really pay us that much,
1:32:21 > 1:32:25but it basically worked out to us getting around £3 an hour.
1:32:25 > 1:32:26Now that's been scrapped.
1:32:26 > 1:32:29People born a few months after me
1:32:29 > 1:32:33will have over 40 grand of debt to sort out, as well as having,
1:32:33 > 1:32:36you know, not a particularly sparkly salary.
1:32:36 > 1:32:39I started nursing at the first hospital
1:32:39 > 1:32:42opened for the NHS, in 1948.
1:32:42 > 1:32:47Before the Health Service, there had been a lot of fear about being ill.
1:32:47 > 1:32:48Even as a little girl,
1:32:48 > 1:32:52I recall going to the doctor with my earache, and my parents
1:32:52 > 1:32:56having to pay, and the chink as the coins went into his pocket,
1:32:56 > 1:33:00and I realised my parents would have to go without something
1:33:00 > 1:33:02in order to get me the care.
1:33:02 > 1:33:06We are in the process of privatisation, and a key strategy
1:33:06 > 1:33:08would be to make the NHS fail,
1:33:08 > 1:33:12look like it's failing, destroy the trust the public have in it
1:33:12 > 1:33:15and destroy the trust that the professionals have in it.
1:33:15 > 1:33:18And then we'll be persuaded to call for something radical, and I think
1:33:18 > 1:33:22that radical will be conversion to an American-style insurance system.
1:33:22 > 1:33:23It's not a business.
1:33:23 > 1:33:26We built it up with our tax so that our children
1:33:26 > 1:33:29and grandchildren would have free health care.
1:33:29 > 1:33:31Either you pay your rent,
1:33:31 > 1:33:34or your council tax, or you buy food.
1:33:34 > 1:33:37I've got colleagues that I work with that have got children as well,
1:33:37 > 1:33:40and, to be honest, it's shameful when they say to me
1:33:40 > 1:33:43sometimes they have to go to the food bank.
1:33:43 > 1:33:46So, after...goodness, 20 odd years in the NHS,
1:33:46 > 1:33:48I resigned,
1:33:48 > 1:33:50and that for me was like leaving...
1:33:50 > 1:33:53..leaving a family behind,
1:33:53 > 1:33:54to leave the NHS.
1:33:54 > 1:33:58And all of it, all of the working conditions together...
1:33:59 > 1:34:01..been getting more and more feeling like...
1:34:05 > 1:34:07..is this really worth it?
1:34:09 > 1:34:11- VOICE BREAKING:- Is this really worth it?
1:34:12 > 1:34:15Because this is what I love.
1:34:17 > 1:34:18But it's...
1:34:21 > 1:34:24..it's not anymore, and that's really hard to say.
1:34:25 > 1:34:27And I don't want to leave.
1:34:29 > 1:34:34# In the eyes of all
1:34:37 > 1:34:42# Have we lost our soul?
1:34:44 > 1:34:50# Oh, and she can't let go
1:34:53 > 1:34:57# Cos she loves it so... #
1:34:57 > 1:35:00I'm interested in what Jeremy Corbyn has to say,
1:35:00 > 1:35:04simply because he genuinely wants to help me do my job.
1:35:04 > 1:35:08The press and the Tories said that these were radical policies.
1:35:08 > 1:35:10In a country as rich as Britain,
1:35:10 > 1:35:12where people are having to take second jobs,
1:35:12 > 1:35:16working people are having to go on benefits and rely on food banks,
1:35:16 > 1:35:19it's not radical to invest in the Health Service,
1:35:19 > 1:35:21it's not radical to take away privatisation
1:35:21 > 1:35:25from the Health Service, it's not radical to invest in us.
1:35:25 > 1:35:29And now I'm back in the NHS and I want a Labour government,
1:35:29 > 1:35:32I want a better NHS for my children's future,
1:35:32 > 1:35:36and that is what will drive me forward and continue my fight.
1:35:38 > 1:35:42You don't need to worry if you get a devastating illness and you have
1:35:42 > 1:35:47no-one to look after you, because the NHS will always be there.
1:35:47 > 1:35:49If that resonates as strongly with you as it does with me,
1:35:49 > 1:35:51then you've got to get out there and fight for it,
1:35:51 > 1:35:54and the first thing to do is to vote for Labour,
1:35:54 > 1:35:57because they are the only party who are offering us, at the moment,
1:35:57 > 1:35:59a real, tangible means by which
1:35:59 > 1:36:02we can safeguard this most precious thing.
1:36:06 > 1:36:09# Cos she loves it so. #