Hodgson continued: “I am a seven month pregnant secondary school teacher who has sat in the Royal Berkshire Hospital for 11 days with my mother and I can promise you that our NHS is struggling,” she wrote.

“That last night no one was free to help my mum go to the toilet. That staff were appalled with how long she had to wait for personal care and greatly distressed to have caused her and us such upset but they had to firefight. That [this] wasn't their fault.”

Hodgson went on to say that her mother has been battling breast cancer for three years, and she is grateful for everything the NHS has done to support her during this time, and thus wants people to consider the future of the NHS when casting their votes in the general election on 8 June.

“I know from my experience in school what it is to desperately want to help but not to be able to; given a lack of funding and resources,” she said. “I know people are impassioned about Brexit & nuclear weaponry and anti-terrorism but NONE of that means anything if we cannot give our loved ones respect and care, if the values our society are based on are forgotten. What would Manchester have done without the NHS last week?

“I've sadly been in and out of this hospital for three years and I am watching it crumble before me. Please, if you really think it is just a 'lefty/Snowflake banging on about the NHS and schools' come down here then. Spend time on these wards. Watch the suffering and then ask yourself what the right way to cast your vote is.”

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