Micah's Story

In this episode of Blocked Britain, we meet Micah, a 28-year-old from Dulwich and West Norwood in London, whose journey into NHS healthcare has been blocked by central government decisions on workforce planning. Health Education England's training budgets were constrained by Treasury spending limits that treated public investment as a cost to be minimised, rather than as the means by which trained nurses and doctors reach the wards that desperately need them. The training places existed, the motivated people existed, but Westminster chose to cap the funding as though the government that issues the pound could somehow run out of pounds. Micah's story reveals how Treasury orthodoxy creates artificial scarcity in our health service. Disclosure: This podcast challenges orthodox economic assumptions about government spending.