BONUS: Parky Politics (Not) in the Pub – Victoria Atkins
Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's
Podot
4.7 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On this bonus election episode of the podcast (don't worry, the politics is over and our Parky Profile series will resume on Saturday!) we're speaking to Victoria Atkins, the current Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. We discuss the impact that the Conservatives are having on the backlog in the health service, the future for neurological provision, and what she can – and can't – promise when it comes to the Parky Charter.
Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, Gillian Lacey-Solymar, Mark Mardell, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Sir Nicholas Mostyn and Jeremy Paxman.
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Additional production by Ewan Cameron.
Music by Alex Stobbs.
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| 0:00.0 | Podo. |
| 0:02.0 | You're listening to Movers and Shakers, a podcast about living with Parkinson's. |
| 0:16.0 | The show is sponsored by Judge Nick Mostin's Old Chambers and by the generous contributions |
| 0:20.8 | of private donors. So welcome to another edition of Movers and Shakers. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Nicholas Moston and today we meet not Welcome to another edition of Movers and Shakers. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Nicholas Moston and today we meet not in the pub, |
| 0:35.7 | but virtually by Zoom. |
| 0:36.8 | That was the only way that we could work out |
| 0:38.9 | to accommodate our special guest who I will introduce |
| 0:41.4 | in a minute. |
| 0:42.2 | But let's see of the crew who's here online. |
| 0:45.2 | I'm Jillian Lacey Solomon, and I'm definitely here. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm Jeremy Patson and I'm partly here. |
| 0:51.6 | And that's all we've got, unfortunately, but our special guest who are very pleased to welcome this afternoon is Victoria Atkins, the Secretary of State for health and social care. |
| 1:01.0 | So welcome Victoria. You've asked to be addressed as Victoria |
| 1:04.3 | not as Madam Secretary, this is my appointment, so welcome to our show. Well thank you so |
| 1:09.1 | much for inviting me and I'm only sorry we're not able to meet in the pub because those tend to be much more enjoyable than a Zoom call. |
| 1:16.1 | Tell us a bit about yourself. You come from a family of politicians. I'm a working mom as well as running a department that has a budget about the same size as the |
| 1:26.1 | economy of Greece and an arm's length body, in other words the NHS that employs some 1.3 million people and of course |
| 1:34.4 | social care employs a further one and a half million people so the numbers that |
| 1:38.6 | cross my desk are always enormous now unlike most of your predecessors you actually have personal experience of health issues don't you? |
| 1:46.0 | Yeah so the NHS is genuinely one of the reasons I came into politics. |
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