If the NHS were on any more precipices, it would be Wile E. Coyote.

'The peers sent the findings of their inquiry into academic medicine to Steve Barclay, the health secretary, on Thursday, warning that “the clinical research environment in the NHS is on a dangerous precipice”.

https://www.ft.com/content/b5b9fe7f-7169-4ae6-a97b-cd98fe346ffe