In this episode of the NWoP Ten Spheres of Influence podcast, co-hosts Kam Flynn and Gareth Russell are joined by two doctors from the Christian Medical Fellowship, Andrew Jackson, Head of Student Ministries, and Steve Foucher, for a frank and faith-filled conversation about the state of healthcare in the UK.

Together they explore the pressures facing the NHS and the people within it: staff burnout, under-resourced end of life care, struggling maternity services, and a healthcare culture that is increasingly failing its most vulnerable. They speak candidly about the assisted dying bill, and why its defeat in Scotland was a significant and prayerfully pursued outcome, drawing attention to what such legislation could mean for the elderly, the disabled, and the poor.

The conversation moves to the personal, addressing how Christian healthcare workers can sustain their faith and compassion under pressure, and how to hold on to hope when prayers for healing go unanswered. The episode closes with a call to repentance for how the nation has neglected its most vulnerable, and a prayer for the church to lead the way in modelling a different kind of care.

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