It's not just the NHS - Europe's healthcare crisis
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily podcast with Niall Paterson, Ana Gimenez, a GP in Spain, and A&E doctor Roberto Cosentini in Italy help to paint a picture of the current situation in their countries.
Plus, Niall speaks to waiting times expert Professor Luigi Siciliani about the scale of the problems and public health expert and senior director at the World Health Organisation, Dr Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, as we discuss what can be done to solve them.
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| 0:56.7 | Legacy to find out how. Emergency services stretched to breaking point. Routine operations being |
| 1:06.4 | cancelled left, right and centre, living thousands in pain. Medical staff withdrawing their labour |
| 1:12.6 | and taking to the picketland, a health service on its knees. But for once, I'm not talking |
| 1:18.8 | about the NHS. That pressure, particularly around flu and COVID rates, is something that has put |
| 1:24.3 | huge pressure on the NHS in Wales, in Scotland, across Europe, |
| 1:28.7 | and indeed across the ground. |
| 1:30.6 | Now that was the Health Secretary Steve Barkley, speaking in the Commons on the 9th of January, |
| 1:35.2 | making a point that others in government have also been keen to promote |
| 1:38.9 | that any of the problems we find here can also be seen the other side of the channel. |
| 1:43.9 | And the implication of |
| 1:44.7 | that is pretty clear. If every European health service is suffering, then the issues in |
| 1:49.7 | the NHS are not necessarily of our government's creation. So let's find out just how healthy |
| 1:56.8 | Europe's healthcare is. I'm Neil Patterson and this is the Sky News Daily. |
| 2:01.6 | A little later we'll dig through the numbers with a professor of economics and hear from the World Health Organisation as to what actually might be done to sort it out. |
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