Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup – 16/04/23

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🗓️ 16 April 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Isabel Hardman hosts the highlights from Sunday morning’s political shows. This morning’s shows heavily focussed on the crisis in the NHS, after the Royal College of Nursing voted against the government’s pay deal, meaning further strike action. Pat Cullen says the strikes could last as long as Christmas. Conservative Party Chair, Greg Hands disagrees and says the deal is a 'very reasonable offer'. In an interview with Wes Streeting, the Shadow Health Secretary says he is deeply worried about patient safety.

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0:22.2	Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast.
0:26.8	I'm Isabelle Hardman and this is The Sunday Roundup.
0:30.0	This morning's shows were heavily focused on the ongoing crisis in the NHS,
0:34.0	with further nursing strikes coming after the Royal College of Nursing voted against the government's paedial.
0:39.6	The Royal College's General Secretary Pat Cullen, stood by her union's members,
0:44.2	telling Nora Kuhnsberg that the working conditions of nurses and doctors
0:48.0	meant patients were at risk at all times, not just on strike days.
0:52.8	She said only ministers could stop strikes and that they needed to return with an improved offer.
0:57.2	You've had a letter from the Health Secretary Steve Barkley just in the last half hour.
1:02.0	You've called for urgent talks. What's his response to you, Ben?
1:05.4	Well, it's interesting that it's taken the Health Secretary days to respond to my letter.
1:11.4	And I get it half an hour before I'm coming on your programme.
1:14.2	So I'd ask, I wonder why, first of all,
1:16.6	and that's not about being disrespectful to me.
1:19.0	It's been disrespectful to over 500,000 nurses that I represent.
1:24.0	What is he saying, Ben?
1:25.0	In fact, it says very little, Laura.
1:28.2	It actually says very little.
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