Is the NHS in good health under Wes Streeting?
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🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
A tricky week for Wes Streeting was eased ever so slightly by the news NHS waiting lists have shrunk – if not by much.
But the health secretary will still be nursing his bruises a day after having to deny he was plotting to oust the prime minister.
If he really is in the waiting room hoping to enter Number 10 it would help if his NHS record was given a positive diagnosis.
Mr Streeting talks a good game – so what’s the true state of the NHS under his leadership?
Niall is joined by former NHS Trust chairman Roy Lilley and health correspondent Ashish Joshi.
Producer: Natalie Ktena
Editor: Mike Bovill
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up, the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, has denied he has ambitions to be Prime Minister, |
| 0:05.8 | which is handy, as he's enough to be getting on with running the NHS. |
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| 1:12.9 | Nor doubt if asked to mark his own report card, West Streeting would say he's doing a damn fine |
| 1:18.7 | job. But how should the rest of us judge a health secretary? Well, if success were measured |
| 1:24.5 | in column inches alone, the amount written about West Streeting's leadership ambitions this week |
| 1:29.4 | would suggest he's doing just fine. |
| 1:31.7 | The problem for Mr Streeting is that, of course, it's not. |
| 1:34.9 | Instead, far better to judge him on the promises he made. |
| 1:38.7 | And there in black and white in the manifesto is cutting waiting lists. |
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