027: Harrowing - An NHS Special

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

“What are we meant to do with 180 people in a department built for 50?” - a rhetorical question from an NHS staff member. Whilst the UK’s Health Secretary tweets about the couch to 5k app and PM Rishi Sunak discusses the need for more maths, the NHS is in crisis. How is anyone going to run when they have to wait for years for a hip replacement? Is it democide? According to Wikipedia "Democide is the murder of any person or people by their government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder…" and Collins Dictionary's definition is "the killing of members of a country's civilian population as a result of its government's policy, including by direct action, indifference, and neglect." Marina Purkiss and Jemma Forte discuss all of this plus Lord of the Week, Mick Lynch, and more in this special edition of The Trawl. Seen a great tweet? Twit us @TheTrawlPodcast. Follow @MarinaPurkiss, @JemmaForte Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tax Act can think of a million things more fun than filing taxes.
0:04.0	Tax Act is going to name some now.
0:07.0	Sitting in traffic.
0:08.0	Folding a fitted bed sheet.
0:11.0	Listening to your coworker talk about his fantasy team.
0:14.0	Digging a hole.
0:16.0	Digging an even larger hole next to that original hole.
0:19.0	Unfortunately, Tax Act's filing software can't
0:22.6	make taxes fun, but Tax Act can help you get them done. Tax Act, let's get them over with.
0:30.7	Well, personally, all I can say is, if we don't fight for the M.F, we'll do it on something.
0:42.5	Hello and welcome to The Trawl.
0:43.9	I'm Marina Perkis.
0:45.7	And I'm Gemma Forte.
0:50.6	And this podcast is going to go straight into a topic that we just can't get away from and absolutely has to be covered.
0:53.0	It's too important not to. So it's the biggest story
0:55.7	and it's bloody tragic and it's unfolding before our very eyes. It's the collapse of our
1:00.7	precious NHS. And, you know, the NHS, something that I've got to sort of a few years
1:07.2	older than new Marina, just to a certain extent taken for granted all my life this
1:11.9	wonderful thing and i don't think any of us unless we see it with our very own eyes unless we
1:16.0	experience it or our loved ones do can compute just how bad things have got right yeah yeah the
1:24.3	times reported that any delays are now killing up to 500 people per week, per week. So that's unnecessary, undignified, agonising deaths. And I literally just got goose pimples saying that. I'm actually quite fearful at this time. Because the stories that are coming in are harrowing. I get sent loads by the way of DMs for people sharing their
1:44.6	stories. I'm like, I can't, I don't know what I'm supposed to do with this. I don't know what
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