The Ambulance Strike

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Health bosses have warned they cannot guarantee patient safety during strikes by thousands of ambulance workers in England and Wales on Wednesday. Adam is joined by Unison boss Christina McAnea and BBC health reporter Jim Reed to explore how the industrial action could impact the NHS. And the BBC’s Fergus Walsh celebrates some of the latest medical innovations, including a trial of a personalised cancer vaccine and how a baby's life was 'probably saved' by umbilical stem cells. This episode of Newscast is presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Tim Walklate with Miranda Slade, Alix Pickles and Phil Marzouk. The studio manager was Philip Bull. The assistant editor was Louisa Lewis.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:05.2	Hello, I have in my hands a Brian Envelope already opened it because opened it at home because
0:11.0	I knew what it was. It is the card I sent myself on Tuesday the 13th of December which arrived
0:19.1	at lunchtime on Tuesday the 20th of December. So I don't know if that reflects how you've
0:25.4	experienced the postal service with all these strikes lately because we spoke to somebody
0:29.7	who ran a business who listens to newscasts who'd been waiting two or three weeks for some
0:32.8	of her deliveries to go through. Suppose that's parcels though. And I have to say this
0:38.4	actually to turn into a bit of an experiment because at exactly the same time I got my
0:43.0	electricity bill and I thought oh, it's my latest electricity bill. No, it was the one
0:47.8	from the 20th of November. So that one took an entire month to get to me, fascinating.
0:53.8	More stuff on the latest episode of newscast.
0:56.0	Newscasts from the BBC. We will deliver, we will deliver, we will deliver.
1:01.4	Build the back better. Blah, blah, blah. Green economy. Blah, blah, blah.
1:05.7	I've absolutely apologised for using the word scumbag.
1:08.7	At least I didn't slap anybody which is good. I'm actually very right-wing.
1:12.7	I still have Easter. Baby.
1:14.5	Funnily enough it was tractors as I was looking at.
1:16.5	The Prime Minister is not under a desk.
1:19.0	I am virtually out of tools to help people now.
1:23.2	Hello, it's Adam in the studio and today is going to be a bit of a health-focused
1:27.7	episode of newscasts. We're going to be using lots of expertise from the BBC's
1:31.9	Health and Medical Cluster. Fergus will be back to tell us about some amazing breakthroughs
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