Doctors’ disorders: Britain’s overwhelmed health service
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Britain’s National Health Service is in crisis. Wait times are rising, nurses and paramedics are striking, and doctors are overworked—leading to hundreds of excess deaths each week. We visit the front line: a stretched GP’s surgery in Wales. We ask why Germany and Poland love to hate each other. And what America’s army is doing to slim down its overweight recruits.
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| 1:08.8 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:17.7 | Germany and Poland are neighbors, trading partners, and vital strategic allies of Ukraine. |
| 1:23.9 | But a Polish official recently accused Germany of trying to turn his country into a vassal state. |
| 1:29.8 | The latest dust-up in an increasingly fractious relationship. |
| 1:34.8 | And the United States Army is missing its recruitment targets, |
| 1:38.7 | in part because so many potential soldiers are overweight. |
| 1:42.7 | But a new program aims to slim them down. |
| 1:46.1 | It's proving popular and appears pretty successful. |
| 1:54.8 | First up, though. |
| 1:55.7 | The I've been asked to tell you just a little about this new plan for better health. |
| 2:10.6 | Britain's National Health Service opened its doors almost 75 years ago. |
| 2:15.6 | Which will provide the best medical advice and treatment for everyone, every man, woman and child in this country. |
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