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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots. I am Mosty Dunn and today I'm joined by James Heel and Isabel Hardman.

We're in the final week of local election campaigning and the Labour government is keen to draw attention to

domestic issues like the NHS and education before voters head to the polls on Thursday. Today, Keir's

in the north-east of England

to boast about expanding the NHS app,

which he says will cut waiting lists and end the days of the NHS living in the dark ages.

Isabel, is this as significant a step forward as Starmour's making out,

or is it merely a distraction from bigger issues facing the health service?

I mean, I think to a certain, as you say, it's quite an easy

thing to talk about. And it's one of those, as we love to say in political journalism, retail

offers in that it's quite tangible. People feel as though the NHS, and they're often the

right to feel this, is stuck in the technological dark ages. And so to have the government talking their sort of language,

I mean, I'm sure we've all heard people conversationally saying

what the NHS needs is this kind of technology and why are we doing this?

You know, why are we able to manage our lives on our phones,

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