A terminal diagnosis for the NHS?
Political Fix
Financial Times
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🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
A government-commissioned review has found the NHS on life support. Can Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer succeed where his predecessors have failed in turning around the health service? And how long has he got to do it? Lucy Fisher is joined by Political Fix regulars Robert Shrimsley and George Parker, plus the FT’s global health editor Sarah Neville, to examine the future of the NHS for the country’s health, politics and economy. And party conference season is upon us, so what are the flash points ahead? Leah Quinn joins the conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to roll out EV charging hubs in the UK and we're keeping oil and gas |
| 0:06.1 | flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:11.9 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:14.6 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon |
| 0:18.8 | and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:25.8 | BP.com slash and not all. |
| 0:29.2 | We take it for granted don't we that the NHS is just always going to be there? |
| 0:34.0 | Yes, I mean it's such a big part of how we Britain see ourselves. |
| 0:39.0 | It consistently tops polls of what makes us proud us to be British. |
| 0:45.0 | So that's why it is so unbelievably freighted for politicians. |
| 0:50.0 | They have to be incredibly careful how they handle this this precious institution. |
| 0:57.0 | Hello, I'm Lucy Fisher and this is political fix from the Financial Times. |
| 1:03.6 | Coming up, reform or die says stama following a damning review into the state of the |
| 1:09.1 | NHS this week. Plus we're now at a party conference season. The Greens and the SMP have already |
| 1:14.4 | kicked off, the Lib Dems are gathering this weekend and then we're into |
| 1:17.8 | labor and the Tories. The Conservatives of course are now down to the final four in their |
| 1:22.4 | leadership race. |
| 1:23.0 | To discuss all of this I'm joined in the studio by my F.T colleagues George Parker. |
| 1:28.0 | I George. Hi Lucy. |
| 1:30.0 | Robert Shimsley. Hi Robert. |
| 1:31.0 | Hello Lucy. |
| 1:32.0 | And Sarah Neville, our global health editor. |
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