How Healthy is the NHS?
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at a damning report into the state of the NHS.
The Lord Darzi review finds the NHS “is in critical condition”, with “ballooning” waiting times and delays in A&E and cancer care.
Speaking after the report, the Prime Minister told reporters the NHS must “reform or die” and there will be no more money without reform.
Adam is joined by health correspondent Cath Burns, chief executive of Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust Matthew Trainer, and chair of the RCGP Council Professor Kamila Hawthorne.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, this episode of newscast is all about the health service because today we got the result |
| 0:11.0 | of the review into the state of the NHS in England by Lord Darcy, the former |
| 0:15.9 | health minister, which was commissioned by the health secretary Wes Streating to kind of prove |
| 0:20.9 | his point he'd been making during the election that the NHS was broken and |
| 0:24.7 | then we got a big speech from Sir Cier Starmer, the Prime Minister, about what he intends to do about it. |
| 0:31.1 | So there's lots of discuss and lots of quite shocking sounding things about the state of the health service in this episode of Newscast. |
| 0:39.0 | Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. I like landscapes. You have a bright future behind you? |
| 0:44.7 | You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? |
| 0:46.7 | We're effectively run in this country by a bunch of childless cat ladies. |
| 0:50.5 | You don't understand the essence of Brad? |
| 0:52.1 | It's the fun police brat? It's just |
| 0:54.9 | getting silly now. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. |
| 0:59.4 | Blimey. Hello it's Adam in the studio and I've spent most of the day reading and thinking and |
| 1:04.8 | listening to stuff about the NHS and let's do some more of that now because we're |
| 1:09.2 | joined here in the newscast studio with my colleague health correspondent, |
| 1:12.5 | Cath Burns, hi, hi, Kath. |
| 1:13.8 | Hi, yeah. |
| 1:14.6 | Relaxing morning reading a big report? |
| 1:16.9 | Very chilled, no, not at all chilled. |
| 1:18.8 | I haven't come up for air all day. |
| 1:20.5 | We're also joined by Matthew trainer, who's chief executive of Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust. |
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