Publish date: 5 July 2021
Cheshire & Merseyside Cancer Alliance is celebrating the 73rd anniversary of the NHS today by saying thank-you to the dedicated professionals and volunteers who achieve so much within the organisation.
The past year has been the most challenging in the history of the National Health Service – but the NHS also achieved amazing things, including caring for 400,000 seriously ill COVID-19 patients and rolling out the country’s biggest-ever vaccination programme, as well as continuing to care for millions people with other health problems, including cancer.
Cancer care is recovering after the disruption of the pandemic thanks to the hard work of those professionals, both clinical and non-clinical.
Today’s anniversary gives us chance to pause and celebrate this most special of our national institutions and the care and hope it gives to all our communities – and to thank everyone involved with it.
NHS trusts, CCGs and other organisations across Cheshire & Merseyside will be celebrating the NHS with tea parties and the lighting up of landmarks and buildings. In doing so, we also remember the wonderful health professionals who have sadly lost their lives during the pandemic.
Jon Hayes, Managing Director of CMCA, said: “The NHS’s 73rd birthday offers us all a chance to say a big thank you.
“Whether it is a colleague or a team, a volunteer or an organisation, we should take this opportunity to say thank you to those in the NHS who have worked so hard – for many, in new and innovative ways – over the last year.
“The past 12 months have shown how great the NHS is and it makes all of us who work within it proud and determined to achieve even more.
“CMCA has a vision to create better cancer services, better cancer care and better cancer outcomes for the population we serve. COVID-19 brought even greater challenges in achieving that vision – but it also strengthened our determination to realise it.
“While marking all that the NHS has achieved, we will also remember those who have lost their lives to COVID-19, in the NHS and beyond.”
You can find out more about the NHS birthday and the NHS Big Tea event here: https://www.nhscharitiestogether.co.uk/NHS-big-tea/