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Today in Parliament

03/07/2025

Today in Parliament

BBC

Government

4.4160 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Alicia McCarthy reports as Health Secretary Wes Streeting unveils his 10-year plan for the NHS in England, the BBC faces more questions over Glastonbury and MPs discuss allergies.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

Order. Order.

0:07.5

Hello, I'm Alicia McCarthy, and this is today in Parliament for BBC Radio 4 to Thursday

0:13.1

the 3rd of July, where the health secretary presents his plan to move care from hospital to community.

0:19.2

The principle is simple.

0:23.7

Care should happen as locally as it can.

0:30.1

Digitously, by default, in a patient's home if possible, in a neighbourhood health centre when needed, in a hospital if necessary.

0:33.1

Also on this programme, more questions for the BBC over its Glastonbury coverage.

0:37.9

There were hundreds of BBC staff there and not being able to identify who ultimately had the final decision on whether to broadcast or not is not acceptable.

0:48.3

And a former cabinet minister reflects on his own days of civil disobedience to oppose the banning of a pro-Palestine group.

0:56.3

No doubt I would have been stigmatised as a terrorist today rather than vilified as indeed I was then.

1:04.3

But first, the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, has promised to protect and rebuild England's NHS.

1:11.2

Making a statement in the comments,

1:12.9

he set out the government's 10-year plan for the health service

1:15.9

with the aim to treat millions more people closer to their homes.

1:20.2

West Streeting said in 1948 the Attlee government had made a choice

1:24.1

that everyone should receive the care they needed,

1:27.0

not just the care they could afford.

1:28.7

And now it falls to our generation to make the same choice to rebuild our National Health Service

1:35.4

and protect in this century what Atle's government built for the last. That is the driving

1:41.6

mission of our 10-year plan.

1:51.4

Central to the proposals, a new network of neighbourhood health hubs to shift care out of hospitals and into the community.

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