Despite my smouldering good looks, I’m not actually a superhero, I know some of you may be shocked by this 😂. I don’t own a cape, though I could quite fancy swooshing about the supermarket in one, from time to time.

Like all my NHS colleagues, I’m a highly trained, higher-educated, experienced clinical professional.

Captain Sir Tom Moore did what he did out of the goodness of his heart.

Johnson and his cabinet have used Sir Tom’s compassionate gesture, and the monies donated by the public, to reinforce the idea that the NHS should have charity status and charitable funding.

Which means that you’re all paying for it twice. The first time in your tax and national insurance.

Genuine charities have seen their revenues plummet.

Unacceptably, many of those organisations are actual lifelines for the public because the services they provide are essential, but have no funding, or too little, or severely cut funding from the government.

Hospices, food banks, mental health charities, older people and children’s charities, shelters, cancer care, endless other supportive organisations, all providing vital services that should already be state funded.

Everyone knows of someone in their lives who has benefitted from a charity to support their health and wellbeing.

To put food in mouths. To put warm words in hearts. To put money in the electric meter. To put a roof over their head. To fulfil vitally important wishes in life’s last days.

We’re to believe that money raised by Sir Tom is being used for things like staff rest areas, which I fully agree is needed. Why isn’t this cost already covered by the vast amount we pay in tax and national insurance every day?

NHS track and trace was outsourced to Serco at a cost of between £10-12 billion with a profit margin, in Serco’s pocket, of £165 million.

I think we can all agree, it hasn’t helped enough to avoid 100,000 deaths and unquantifiable sadness and grief for so many people, including those who may be lucky to have not lost anyone to Covid, but are still struggling every day with the various individual pressures brought about by current restrictions.

Clapping, is not good enough.