What does the NHS need before winter?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
She's due to outline more details of her proposals as parliamentary business returns.
The NHS in England is currently recording poor performance on almost all measures it can be assessed on – including targets for A&E, routine operations and cancer.
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson speaks to Dr Latifa Patel from the British Medical Association about problems with staffing, and to virologist Julian Tang about planning for winter pressures. Plus, nurse Jodie explains how staff are feeling, and Sky News' health correspondent Ashish Joshi explains some of the challenges the new secretary of state will face.
Producer: Emma Rae Woodhouse
Interviews producer: Annie Joyce
Podcast promotions producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Paul Stanworth
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You know, when Helen used to get home from work, I'd ask, how are you? |
| 0:04.0 | Fine, she'd say. |
| 0:06.0 | She clearly wasn't. |
| 0:07.0 | After 10 years in IT, she was on autopilot. |
| 0:11.0 | Then she found this job, training up-and-coming tech wizas at the college, |
| 0:15.0 | same skills but with new people, new challenges. |
| 0:19.0 | Now when she gets back, I get the full debrief. |
| 0:23.2 | Can't get a word in. |
| 0:24.9 | Give your skills new life. |
| 0:26.5 | Train others. |
| 0:27.7 | Search jobs in further education. |
| 0:30.1 | Pain in my hip. |
| 0:32.4 | I keep feeling dizzy. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm getting migraines more often. |
| 0:39.6 | There's another way to contact your GP practice by simply sending your symptoms and requests |
| 0:45.2 | through their website or the NHS app. We're delivering an NHS fit for the future. |
| 0:51.7 | Tap it, type it and we'll take care of it. |
| 0:56.8 | Julia, how do you spell vertebrae? |
| 0:58.6 | Oh, just tight pain in the neck. |
| 1:05.6 | Those 10 days of national morning have perhaps been the longest we've gone in years |
| 1:08.6 | without the state of the health service being front-page news. |
| 1:12.6 | Not that the decline in the NHS is anything new, of course. |
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