Survive What? Bear Grylls, Leadership and the NHS

One of the Masters’ degrees we ran in my department was in Leadership in Clinical Settings, and I was frequently nettled by government’s urging the NHS to ‘toughen up’ in order ‘to survive’. Noticing how the popular genre of ‘survival television’ gave support to that demand, I try here to bring that discourse to the surface and expose its fallacy when applied to the care of vulnerable people.