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2022-12-08

Between them they probably have as much experience of the NHS as any two people you could hope to find, one from the front line and the other from what we might loosely term the management end.

We can probably all agree that the NHS does appear to lurch between crises and panicked monetary infusions by government.

So is the NHS model of "free at the point of use" as directed by the government still a viable (let alone desirable) model?

" ... the sky is dark with chickens coming home to roost ...

" ... it's not just because they are exhausted over Covid, it's because they can't sleep at night because they are being asked to do things that they're not feeling safe or confident in doing"

" ... it's just hopelessly clunky and horrible ... "

" ... but they don't do that now, it's all done centrally by a big piece of software ... "

" ... when it comes to infection control I think we don't have any"

(64 minutes)

Essential viewing.

But do they get to the causes of the problems? Say the top three?