It’s worth thinking about this pre-NHS landscape of health care in Britain, as we weigh up the dire state of social care and support for family carers today. Although health spending takes up an increasing amount of public spending – it was the main beneficiary of last year’s unpopular tax rises – few would openly call for the restoration of the pre-NHS insurance system (though read between the lines of Reform UK’s manifesto, and it’s a different matter).

What we get wrong about unpaid carers, www.transformingsociety.co.uk