Is our broken NHS really being privatised? – Alex Andreou asks the HSJ's Alastair McLellan

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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With the NHS in constant crisis, we constantly hear it’s at risk of being privatised. How close to the truth is that? To find out, Alex Andreou speaks to Health Service Journal editor Alastair McLellan. They discuss the state of the health service, what reforms are happening, and what change is needed. • “Everywhere you look, the NHS is really struggling. It’s not that care now is worse than it was in 1970 - it’s that care now compared to what it could be is the greatest gap we’ve seen since the formation of the NHS.” – Alastair McLellan • "It’s hard to find a Tory voter working for the NHS.” – Alastair McLellan Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Alex Andreou. Producer: Eliza Davis Beard. Audio editor: Jade Bailey. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Kenny Dickinson and artwork by James Parrett. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:12.1	In my 21 years as editor of the Health Service Journal,
1:16.0	people are always telling me the NHS is being privatised. If it is, they're taking a long time about it.
1:22.0	Those are the words of my guest today,
1:24.0	the award-winning journalist who, as you may have guessed,
1:27.0	has been Health Service Journal Editor
1:29.0	and reported on the NHS for over two decades.
1:32.0	Welcome to the bunker, Alistair McClellan.
1:34.4	It's good to be here.
1:35.4	Alistair, I wanted to use that eye-catching quote as a springboard into the rarest of events,
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