NHS Under Pressure

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

As the government admits the NHS is facing an “unprecedented challenge”, A&E consultant Dr Maya Naravi tells us that in 25 years of working in emergency medicine, this is “the worst I have ever seen it”. BBC health editor Hugh Pym joins us to explain what’s behind the problems and what’s being done to try to relieve them. And amid widespread walkouts, Alan Jones, the PA’s industrial correspondent, talks us through what disruption we should expect as a result of strike action this year. Today’s episode was presented by Adam Fleming and made by Chris Flynn with Rufus Gray, Josh Jenkins and Kamilah McInnis. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Alison Gee.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	Hello, Happy New Year. I've missed you. It's good to be back.
0:08.4	Something we're going to miss on a more permanent basis, though,
0:11.8	is the paper review on the BBC News Channel.
0:14.6	You know the one that's on after the 10 o'clock news,
0:17.6	and you sometimes watch while a little bit tipsy
0:20.6	after being in the pub, I've done that a few times.
0:23.0	Anyway, it is being retired. They're not going to do it anymore.
0:26.4	This is after it was pioneered by my colleagues, Martin Croxall,
0:29.9	and Clive Marui. So in honor of them,
0:33.0	we're going to do a newscast paper review,
0:35.4	which I'm recording in my spare room on Monday night at 10.15,
0:39.4	which is when the paper has come out. Anyway, here we go.
0:42.3	Right, the eye says the UK hunts for China's next COVID variant.
0:47.0	And this is reflecting on a memo that's going out to health officials,
0:51.1	telling them that they should test Chinese travelers,
0:55.3	and it's to see if they're bringing in a new variant of COVID
0:59.0	that could be more transmissible.
1:01.0	The Financial Times, international edition, says Tesla shares slide
1:06.5	after slowdown in demand as Apple's value loses $1 trillion.
1:11.2	What?
1:12.6	All right, so basically Tesla, the electric car company,
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