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After a few days of crisis talks, yesterday the health secretary announced urgent measures that he said would ease the critical problems in the NHS.

We will block book beds in residential homes. This is a £200 million investment over the next three months.

The Prime Minister has also been making positive noises.

I came away from all my meetings with a renewed sense of confidence and optimism that we can get to grips with this problem.

But is it enough?

What has been announced is yet another sticking plaster when the NHS needs fundamental reform.

With some ambulance staff set to go on strike again tomorrow, nurses on strike next week, and junior doctors filling out their strike ballots as we speak.

Just how desperate is the current crisis in the NHS? And how did we get here?

Listen, we ask ourselves the question is the NHS failing. I would say that the answer is that it has failed.

We looked after Boris Johnson, we saved his life, and they won't even discuss pay with us.

We think somewhere between three to five hundred people are dying as a consequence of delays and problems with urgent and emergency care each week.

You're listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday times. I'm Manvina Rona.

Today, how bad are things in the NHS?

It's almost the worst type of Christmas tradition for me that I end up getting lots of messages over the festive period where people start talking to me about the sort of substandard care that they're providing to their patients, and it really does hurt doctors and nurses.

I'm Sean Linton, health editor at the Sunday Times, and just recently I've been trying to keep a track of what's going on in any departments and hospitals up and down the country as staff and patients report what looks to be one of the worst winters to health service has ever experienced.

And Sean, we're going to look at the big picture of the NHS across the country, but before we do, what are the personal stories, the experiences that you've heard about in the last few weeks that have really stayed with you?

Yeah, it's been quite difficult actually to talk to patients and families who have been getting in touch with me and also NHS staff as well.

Some of the examples that we've heard about are families who are coming to terms with the loss of a relative who they feel might have survived had an ambulance arrived quicker or had they been seen quicker in any.

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