Ill in England? Your Location Can Determine If You Live or Die
Leaders with Francine Lacqua
Bloomberg
4.6 • 64 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Britain’s National Health Service turns 75 years-old this week. But as reporter Suzi Ring and editor Andre Tartar explain in the latest episode of In the City, rather than being a cause for celebration, the NHS anniversary comes at a critical, maybe even dire moment for the service.
Ring and Tartar unpack Bloomberg’s first-of-its-kind analysis of NHS data for eight indicators—including ambulance waiting times, cancer treatment times, overnight hospital bed availability and wait times for diagnostic tests. The study underscores how deep the problems run at the publicly-funded health service—and how difficult they may be to fix.
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| 1:00.6 | anniversary, well, I'd say one of the main points is it's not going to be lasting another 75 years |
| 1:06.0 | if we're in this position now. Is it even going to be lasting 10? And it just raises the questions that we've |
| 1:11.3 | been asking for a number of years, you know, how can it be reformed, what needs to change for it to |
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| 1:27.9 | at the heart of the city of London. And this week, as England's National Health Service |
| 1:34.5 | turns 75, we're going to take a bit of a deep dive into the performance and the prospects |
| 1:40.5 | for Britain's healthcare. I think it was Nigel Lawson who said that the National |
| 1:47.2 | Health Service was the closest thing that the English had to a religion. And as long as I can |
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