How to fix the NHS, with Phil Whitaker
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
With the crisis in the health service growing, the New Statesman’s medical editor Phil Whitaker speaks to Rachel Cunliffe about his prescription for fixing it.
They discuss how the system is currently broken, why the Health Secretary Steve Barclay and the shadow health secretary Wes Streeting could benefit from spending time on the front line with GPs, and how to get back to a system in which the private insurance sector panics about not being needed.
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| 0:33.2 | The New Statesman. |
| 0:38.8 | Hi, I'm Rachel. |
| 0:39.8 | And on today's edition of The New Statesman Podcast, |
| 0:42.1 | I'm talking to Dr Phil Whittaker, |
| 0:43.9 | who wrote the cover story in the latest New Statesman magazine, |
| 0:46.8 | entitled How to Solve Britain's Public Health Crisis |
| 0:49.7 | without spending more money. |
| 0:57.7 | Dr Phil Whittaker, thank you so much for joining us today. |
| 1:00.8 | You are not only the New Statesman's medical editor, |
| 1:04.4 | but also a GP of many years. |
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