EPISODE · May 10, 2026
Imogen's Story
from Blocked Britain · host Blocked Britain
Meet Imogen, 34, from Reading Central in the South East. She wanted to train as a nurse but found herself blocked by a healthcare system that claims to be desperately short-staffed while simultaneously limiting the number of people it will train. This episode explores how HM Treasury's budget constraints on Health Education England created artificial caps on nursing training places, even as hospitals across the region struggled with vacancies. The training capacity existed, qualified applicants were ready, but Westminster chose to treat public investment in healthcare workers as a cost to minimise rather than the foundation of a functioning NHS. Recorded in Reading Central constituency. This podcast receives no commercial funding and accepts no advertising.
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