Winter is coming. Can the NHS survive it?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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It’s hard to remember a time when the NHS wasn’t at ‘breaking point’. But with more than 7 million people in England on the NHS waiting list, real-term wage decreases, over-stretched ambulance services, and impending strike action from nurses – can it make it through the winter? Anita Charlesworth, Director of Research at the Health Foundation, joins Siân Pattenden to weigh up if there is any hope of saving it. “The NHS staff are wracked with trauma post-Covid.” “We ran the NHS hot at the edge of capacity before the pandemic.” “Pay is far from the central factor of low staff morale, they haven’t felt valued for years.” “A lot of hospitals are now running food banks for their staff.” www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Siân Pattenden. Producers: Jet Gerbertson and Alex Rees. Assistant Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production: Robin Leeburn. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:11.2	With more than 7 million people in England on the NHS waiting
1:14.6	list for treatment alongside real-term wage decreases, overstretched ambulance services,
1:19.3	impending strike action from nurses, and a severely depleted workforce, what is the state of our NHS?
1:25.6	And while we're now becoming accustomed to words like crisis, breaking point and on the brink
1:30.2	being used in parallel to all conversation about our health service,
1:33.7	will this winter and a massive shortfall in staff and resources
1:37.2	really tip things over?
1:38.8	How do we avert disaster?
1:41.2	Today on the bunker I'm joined by health economist Anita Charlesworth to discuss what ails the NHS
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