The NHS is 75 years old – will it make 80?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The NHS was formed 75 years ago. As it celebrates its diamond anniversary, the service seems to be under more pressure than ever. Andrew Harrison is joined by Roy Lilley to celebrate the 75th birthday of the NHS and to ask, will it make it to 80? “The NHS is knackered isn’t it? Nobody can blame staff for wanting to leave.” “If we leave the NHS to get on with the job, it will roll up its sleeves and deliver.” “Virgin tried to come in and run the NHS like an airport, where are they now?” www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Andrew Harrison. Producer: Liam Tait. Assistant Producer: Adam Wright. Audio editor: Robin Leeburn. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. 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 the bunker your daily need to know in the worlds of news and politics.
1:09.0	I'm Andrew Harrison.
1:10.0	75 years ago on 5th of July 1948, Labour Health Minister Aniran Bevin launched the new
1:17.5	National Health Service. His great and novel undertaking has expanded into a vast system with a budget of almost 200 billion
1:24.4	pounds, a workforce of 1.4 million and a unique place in our national identity.
1:30.5	A recent Health Foundation Ipsos poll found that 54% of people said the NHS is what makes
1:36.2	the most proud to be British.
1:38.0	Yet the NHS has always seen to be in crisis in one form or another, and the latest one
1:42.1	is possibly the most serious and even existential.
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