The Pantydwr Patient · 21 February 05 · Issue 1

Diagnosed with cancer in November 2004, Jonathan Sleigh has just embarked on a course of treatment, which has brought him into dependence on the National Health Service – arguably the greatest 20th century contribution to Britain’s heritage – for the course of his treatment and recovery. An unusual perspective for a former civil servant, he decided to writean account of his experience of the NHS especially as it operates in Mid-Wales. As an element of biography, today’s diary is tomorrow’s primary resource and this should provide an interesting record for any historian researching these two interconnected subjects in the future.