Army veterans to get ID cards for NHS healthcare
March 30, 2009
This article about priority treatment for army veterans comes only a short time after I blogged about Johnson Beharry’s criticism of injured soldiers aftercare and access to NHS treatment. The new plans are that ID cards are issued to those who have served in the forces so that they will be able to receive treatment quickly. This was featured in many of the papers. The Mail adopts a nationalistic tone when it described the scheme as a measure to “bring back pride”.
The Independent referred to the plans for those who risked their lives in combat “to get front-of-the-queue treatment”. They also had a campaign for troops to get better care at the bottom of the article, which The Telegraph and the Mail didn’t have. However the Independent is similar to the others in its support of the troops. Their Fight for our Veterans campaign joins the other papers own initiatives to support troops, more of which you can hear on my podcast.
