Is the NHS on its deathbed?
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
As the country’s junior doctors hit the picket lines, your co-pilots hit the rocket of sweet reason to dissect what’s really going on in our ‘first class' National Health Service.
Allison thinks the NHS might have finally kicked the bucket and questions whether we should start sending patients abroad for treatments, whilst Liam thinks the strikes represent bigger failings of our political and media classes.
Joining our co-pilots this week is trade economist Catherine McBride, who is on hand to explain exactly what the mouthful that is the CPTPP really is, and why she thinks that controversial 0.08% figure is in her words, "arse-covering".
And Allison surprises Liam with some particularly enlightening insights on the economy…
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| 0:27.0 | Slashpuzzles-pam-it-normal today. |
| 0:38.0 | The NHS, we haven't had the funeral, but basically it is deceased. |
| 0:42.0 | I do think some of our public sector unions, if you like, have become increasingly militant. |
| 0:50.0 | Well, I think that there is a reasonable amount of to use a technical phrase, |
| 0:56.0 | ask covering, that happens in all government departments. |
| 1:00.0 | That'll be the main issue of the week, weren't it? |
| 1:03.0 | Sexist remarks made by surgeons. |
| 1:06.0 | It's like mowing the lawn when your house is burning dead. |
| 1:13.0 | We have been gone. |
| 1:16.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu- |
| 1:18.2 | Podcasts with Alison Pearson. |
| 1:20.0 | Hello. |
| 1:21.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 1:23.0 | It's the course of an estimated 350,000 council appointments, including operations. |
| 1:29.0 | So is this four-day junior doctor strike, which began on Tuesday and ends on Saturday morning, |
| 1:34.0 | justified industrial action, or an act of medical or even political sabotage? |
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