Repeated lockdowns (sold as being to ‘protect’ the NHS), along with over-the-top fear-based messaging and even the threat of vaccine mandates which drove away valuable staff, have left the NHS in its worst-ever position and it is the ordinary people of the UK who are now paying the price with massively delayed diagnoses and treatment and record waiting lists. Together, we are demanding that the key issues affecting the treatment of patients are addressed so that the government do not use the NHS as an excuse to call for further damaging restrictions such as lockdowns and other restriction on normal life, mandatory masks, and limited visiting to patients in hospitals. We need to know now, before the usual winter pressures: NHS, what’s the plan?