Nurses on strike: how can the NHS cope?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Also on the podcast, James and Isabel discuss the ongoing situation in Northern Ireland. And how will Matt Hancock fare in the jungle?
Natasha Feroze is joined by Isabel Hardman and James Forysth.
Produced by Natasha Feroze
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| 0:16.4 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, |
| 0:18.2 | the Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:20.8 | I'm Natasha Froze and I'm joined by Isabelle Hardman and James Forsyth. |
| 0:25.6 | For the first time in history, nurses in the UK have voted to go on strike. |
| 0:32.4 | James, what does this mean in Britain? |
| 0:35.5 | How serious is it that now the NHS has decided to go on strike? |
| 0:39.0 | So the first thing to say is that the Royal College of Nursing |
| 0:41.6 | to say the strike won't affect emergency health care provision. |
| 0:45.4 | But it is going to make the waiting list worse and there are already seven million people |
| 0:50.4 | on the NHS waiting list and I think it also tells you |
| 0:54.4 | you give you a preview of some of the very difficult arguments coming down the track |
| 0:57.6 | because you know you can debate I mean the nurses want a 60-17% pay rise. |
| 1:02.7 | You can say that's too much but you also can't get around the fact that inflation |
| 1:07.4 | is about 9 or 10% at the moment and the kind of pay rises that have been |
| 1:13.1 | budgeted for are in the low single digits not high. |
| 1:16.4 | So you might say well hang a second why don't you give nurses a proper pay rise? |
| 1:20.0 | Well if you gave them a pay rise to compensate them fully for inflation |
| 1:24.2 | that would have to come out of the NHS budget and that would be that would |
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