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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

How did the NHS break?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3912 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 155 minutes

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This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio. To join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973

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0:32.7

indeed to you. It's Thursday, so don't forget, mystery hour is on the way. In the second

0:37.1

hour of the program,

0:37.8

we may turn our attention, unless you've got a better idea, to, which by the way, is perfectly

0:42.5

plausible, to plans in Australia to ban teenagers from social media. A story we've circled around

0:48.7

so many times, and yet one of the headlines today, pinpoints precisely our interest in it.

0:53.5

Nobody knows, says the headline, whether it will work or not.

0:57.8

Do you reckon you do?

0:59.3

But we begin, I think, inevitably with the speech that Kirstama is due to give imminently,

1:05.7

which will contain his response to the reported 37 billion pound shortfall in NHS funding since 2010. That's the

1:15.5

finding of the former health minister Lord Darcy. He will talk about reform, but of course,

1:23.2

that will only be part of the story. I find myself re I, I, I find myself reeling in part from the speed of

1:29.9

the decline. So the NHS, I don't think, has ever been, well, has it? Do you think, this isn't

1:35.5

necessarily the phone in topic, but do you think the NHS has ever been close to perfect, that

1:40.9

the nearest thing to perfect? I mean, supremely fit for purpose. Remember, there will be

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