When we had 500 deaths a week from COVID, the government was forced to acknowledge and act

on a national emergency. But now, there are 500 excess deaths a week from pressures on

the NHS and the Tories simply shrug their shoulders. With me to discuss what the immediate

future holds for our health care service is Dahlia, Gabrielle, Dahlia. I hope you're feeling

healthy because it's really bad news if you're not. Yeah, I mean, it's not looking good back in

the UK from Berlin here, but yeah, looking forward to chatting about what we're going to do about it.

Prime Minister to be Liz Truss has announced her funding plans for the NHS. Give the creaking

health service more money? No. Commit to keeping its finances stable. Think again.

Suggesting she'll cut its funding. Well, we are in the dog trapped in hot car phase of British

politics. Not only has Liz Truss said she'll cut NHS funding. She's promised to slash it by record

amounts. Here she is at last night's Tory leadership hustings in Birmingham. Given your plans to

on a national insurance, what will you do about the crisis? I think it's too much of a

stretch to use that word about social care in this country. How would you solve the problems

facing social care, which are truly immense? So I still would spend the money. I would just take

it out of general taxation, rather than raising national insurance, but I would spend that money

in social care. The fact is quite a lot of it has gone into the NHS. I believe it should go

to local authorities to deal with the very real issues in social care because the problem we've

got at the moment is people are in beds in the NHS who would be better off in social care beds.

So put the money into social care, free up more space in the national health service,

and empower the front line in the national health service because there are still too many

central dictats going to the front line. People on the front line feel disempowered.

We're seeing increasing numbers of people leaving the profession. So those are the issues we need

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