Is the NHS ready for Alzheimer’s drug breakthroughs?
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Adam is back from his holiday and in classic Newscast fashion, there's some breaking news just before we hit publish.
But earlier, we looked at warnings the NHS is unprepared to offer two breakthrough Alzheimer’s drugs.
Medical editor Fergus Walsh and Dr Susan Kohlhaas from Alzheimer's Research UK join Adam to discuss whether medical science could be overtaking the health system. And, Israel’s military focus has turned to the southern Gazan city of Rafah. International editor Jeremy Bowen explains what’s happening, and how the rest of the world is reacting.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm back after my two weeks of holiday. |
| 0:07.5 | Well done to James Cook, by the way, for so ably sitting on the newscast perch while I was away. |
| 0:14.1 | Anyway, things have already not gone to plan. |
| 0:16.4 | So earlier on, I recorded a conversation with our international editor, Sir Jeremy Bowen, who's in Jerusalem. |
| 0:22.6 | And it was all about how the focus in the Israel-Ghazah conflict has become Rafa in the south of Gaza and on the border with Egypt. |
| 0:34.2 | And I was going to say to Jeremy, oh, well, you're there on the roof in Jerusalem talking about all of this stuff. |
| 0:40.0 | The conflicts had a domestic political angle here in the UK today around Labour's candidate in the Rochdale by-election. |
| 0:48.2 | Because over the weekend, a recording emerged of him saying something at a Labour Party meeting about the October the 7th attacks |
| 0:56.5 | and how he thought Israel had deliberately let down its guard. |
| 1:02.1 | Anyway, when that was exposed, he then apologised and said that he'd fallen for a conspiracy theory on the internet, |
| 1:11.6 | a line that seemed to be bought by Labour HQ, |
| 1:16.6 | but at the same time they were making it very clear that the deadline had passed |
| 1:20.6 | to get on the ballot paper, so even if they had wanted to kind of fire him as their candidate, they couldn't. And so that story seemed to |
| 1:28.7 | just sort of like calmed down a bit. People were still talking about it, but nothing had really |
| 1:33.5 | happened. So I didn't mention it to Jeremy because it seemed quite small fry compared to just |
| 1:38.6 | what was going on in the Middle East. However, we then recorded some more stuff for newscast. I came home, had some dinner, |
| 1:47.1 | and then the Labour Party put out a statement saying they could no longer support their |
| 1:52.9 | candidate. So we will now have this situation in the Rochdale by-election in a couple of weeks |
| 1:58.3 | time where the ballot paper says, Azar Ali Labour Party candidate, |
| 2:03.7 | and actually the Labour Party isn't supporting him. |
| 2:07.5 | It would be really strange. |
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