Who Cares: the play that puts the NHS under the knife in the election
The opening scene in Michael Wynne’s new play, ‘Who Cares’ is a hospital A&E. It is so well done that you can almost smell it. That combination of disinfectant, drunkenness, disease and controlled disorder.
At the Royal Court, the play is about the NHS, based on interviews with many familiar names, from doctors and nurses, from Julie Bailey who revealed the scandal a Mid-Staffordshire, to Anita Charlesworth, from the Health Foundation.
The audience is invited to promenade through the NHS: the GP surgery, outside while the paramedic has a break, on the roof having a smoke are two nurses talking about the pressures they are under, into the operating theatres.