The NHS has reached breaking point, and we want to hear from you

As part of our new campaign, we're asking our readers to tell us how they think our health service can be saved

England’s NHS is at “breaking point”, according to leading health professionals (Getty Images)

A funding crisis is gripping the NHS. How we pay for the service as demands on it grow inexorably is one of the most pressing political issues of the day.

This week in The Independent we are asking, How Can We Save the NHS? A £30bn black hole in the health service's finances has opened up, and as a coalition of our leading doctors, nurses and charity heads have warned, the NHS’s founding principles are now at stake, we travel the country to bring reports and analysis from all corners of the service.

Now we want to hear from users of the NHS, and from healthcare professionals themselves. Are you a GP? A nurse? A surgeon? An ambulance driver? An ancillary worker? How does the NHS look from the position you occupy in it? What is the NHS doing right? And what is it doing wrong? Where can money be saved? Where should it be spent?

And if you are – or have recently been – an NHS patient, we want to know what your experience was like. What worked? And what didn’t work? How Can We Save the NHS is a debate we’ll be leading here on Independent Voices.

Email your contribution to IndyVoices@independent.co.uk

Simon O'Hagan is Editor of Independent Voices