Sick and tired: Is politics destroying the NHS?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The NHS has been squeezed by successive Governments. The Covid-19 pandemic only worsened the crisis, highlighting the need for Parliament to focus on fixing our health service. Dr. Julia Grace Patterson is the author of Critical: Why the NHS is Being Betrayed and How We Can Fight for it – and says that politicians are doing nowhere near enough to fix the issue. She joins Hannah Fearn in The Bunker. Find a copy of the book here: https://harpercollins.co.uk/pages/critical “Health care is, unfortunately, a deeply political area and that comes with a lot of problems.” – Dr. Julia Grace Patterson. “The way that Jeremy Hunt spoke about us in the press, we found that extremely difficult.” – Dr. Julia Grace Patterson. “It started with junior doctors, but now the government has tried to scapegoat GPs.” – Dr. Julia Grace Patterson. “Politicians approach the NHS in a very short-term-ish way.” – Dr. Julia Grace Patterson. www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Hannah Fearn. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production: Robin Leeburn. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.0	Hello and welcome back to another installment of your favorite politics and
1:07.8	culture pod. Yes it's the bunker with me Hannah Fern and joining me today is the doctor turned campaign
1:14.5	and political activists, Dr Julia Grace Patterson,
1:17.5	whose new book, Critical, sets out the extent
1:20.3	of the crisis the NHS is in,
1:22.2	but it also gives us some ideas about how to save it, which I think we all need to hear.
1:26.0	Hi Julia, welcome.
1:28.0	Hello, thank you so much for having me today.
1:30.0	So your background, you're a psychiatrist by trade and you qualified as a doctor in 2010,
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