Why is the NHS in such a bad way?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Max Jeffery speaks to Kate Andrews and Isabel Hardman.
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| 0:19.8 | Hello and welcome to a special Saturday edition of Coffee How Shots, |
| 0:23.4 | the Spectators' Politics Podcast. Today I'm drawing by Kate Andrews, |
| 0:27.5 | the Spectators' Economics Editor and Isabelle Hardman, who as well as being the |
| 0:31.3 | Spectators' Assistant Editor, is the author of Fighting for Life, the 12 battles that made |
| 0:36.1 | our NHS and the struggle for its future. And the NHS is going to be the subject of today's |
| 0:41.0 | podcast, the NHS turns 75 next week on the 5th of July. So Isabelle, I wanted to come to you first. |
| 0:47.3 | Is it a birthday worth celebrating? I think it's an awkward birthday and the NHS I know have had |
| 0:55.7 | to work out how much to do. They've tried very carefully not to do much that's sort of culprit, |
| 1:03.3 | but I think obvious reasons. There've been a number of events throughout the NHS's history where |
| 1:09.2 | it's had to do things in a way that's appeared that it hasn't spent any money on them, |
| 1:13.6 | including actually the design of its logo, which is one of the most successful brands in the world, |
| 1:18.4 | but that the brief was dope because though we've spent any money on this. And that's the same |
| 1:23.9 | for this birthday celebration. There's lots of stuff that seems kind of organic, like I'm sure |
| 1:30.0 | Kate's really looking forward to the park run for the NHS next weekend. And there's the service |
| 1:36.1 | at Westminster Abbey. There's an MP's anniversary run, but they're only running 4K and I haven't |
| 1:42.1 | got to the bottom of why. Why not 75? Why not five? I mean, is that extra kill me to really |
| 1:49.3 | going to kill them? So there's lots of, you know, sort of community-based or seemingly community-based |
| 1:54.8 | things going on. And we've also had the publication of the workforce plan this week to tie in with |
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