Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 02/07/23

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🗓️ 2 July 2023

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The government unveils its plans for the future of the NHS. But its progress on the healthcare problems of today is called into question. Can the NHS withstand the pressure that today's society places on it? How would Labour deal with teacher union negotiations? And do public sector pay rises cause inflation? Plus, an interview with the first woman to be sent on a mission around the moon.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shot, the spectator's daily politics podcast. I'm
0:14.4	Isabelle Hardman and this is the Sunday Roundup. At a time when the NHS is under extreme
0:20.4	pressure, with staff shortages and strikes causing widespread disruption, Health Secretary
0:25.8	Steve Barkley outlined the Government's £2.4 billion plan to employ more than 300,000
0:32.7	new doctors and nurses over the next few years. He clarified to Laura Coonsburg that this
0:38.6	would be additional money from the Treasury, although he was vague when asked to explain
0:43.3	how it would be funded. On the start of the plan to get these more staff, where's the cash
0:47.8	going to come from? Well, that ramps up, it will be announced through the normal process
0:52.0	with the Chancellor at the next fiscal event. It's something he has long championed and
0:56.5	been hugely supportive of, as indeed has the Prime Minister, so we're being clear as a
1:00.8	Government, we're going to prioritise what is the biggest workforce expansion in the NHS's
1:05.5	history. It's right, we do that as we mark the Centre for Ethnicity to ensure we have the
1:09.9	staff we need for the future. That will ramp up as we double that doctor training, so it doesn't
1:15.3	all come in the first year, but it underscores our commitment to the NHS and it builds on the
1:20.5	biggest other investment in the NHS estate over £20 billion, which we announced as part of our
1:25.8	new hospitals programme. I'd like you to be really explicit, so that £2.4 billion is that
1:31.6	extra money that will come from the Treasury to the Department of Health at the next budget.
1:37.7	It is extra money, it scales up, so it doesn't all arrive in year one. If I can explain it as you
1:43.5	have doctors being trained, obviously, as they go into the second year, you have double the number
1:47.8	into the third year, triple the number, because you're paying for the subsequent years as they come
1:52.2	through. So the money will scale up, but it's additional money from the Treasury and it underscores
1:57.2	something that the Chancellor has long supported when he was doing my job, something the Prime Minister
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