Should you pay to see a GP?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily, host Niall Paterson hears from GPs at one surgery in Cheshire about their thoughts on paid-for appointments, and Sky’s health correspondent discusses the future of the NHS, 75 years after it was founded.
Podcast producer: Rosie Gillott & Annie Joyce
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 1:02.0 | Daily. I'm Neil Patterson. And today, well, we want to bring you something just a little different. Last |
| 1:07.9 | episode, we were focusing on the pressures on the NHS, very specifically |
| 1:12.4 | GPs. We took the train and spent the day at the Wimslow Health Centre. Now, if you haven't |
| 1:17.8 | yet caught up with yesterday's edition, you might want to pause and play that one first. So that's |
| 1:23.4 | not true. Either way, here's a wee flavour. If you were to book for a restaurant and it was packed out, would you really go and have a go at the restaurant owner? I said, why can't I get a table? It's the same kind of analogy. GPs are being bashed. There's simply not enough room. You know, we go home, we've got our own families, we've got our own health issues. And, you know, we struggle with that. |
| 1:45.2 | You know, I can't provide the care I want. |
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