To Provide All People Av Owen Sheers

<p>‘Should be made compulsory reading . . . If it were up to me this clear-sighted yet emotionally charged hymn to the NHS would be added to the curriculum in every high school from Land’s End to John O’Groats with immediate effect.’ <i>i newspaper </i><br><br><b>July 2018 marked the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service Act. <i>To Provide All People</i> is the intimate story of the NHS in British society today, written by novelist, poet and dramatist Owen Sheers. Depicting 24 hours, with a regional hospital at the centre of the action, the poem charts an emotional and philosophical map of the NHS against the personal experiences that lie at its heart; from patients to surgeons, porters to midwives. This is a world of transformative pains, triumphs, losses and celebrations and joins us all in our universal experiences of health and sickness, birth and death, regardless of race, gender or wealth.</b><br><br><b>Informed by over seventy hours of interviews, the work is punctuated with the historical narrative of the birth of the NHS Act. <i>To Provide All People</i> was filmed by Vox Pictures/BBC Wales.</b></p>