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Why we should all be grateful for National Insurance

AFTER leaving school, I worked in my local NHS hospital for 10 years (paying National Insurance, naturally).

At about this point, I sustained serious brain damage as a car passenger in a road traffic collision. I was absent from work for a year to allow my immediate neurological deficits – and some orthopaedic ones – to stabilise.

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