Why is the NHS in crisis, and can it be fixed? - podcast
by Presented by Ian Sample with Denis Campbell, produ from Science | The Guardian on (#63XN2)
The UK's new health secretary, Therese Coffey, has not taken on an easy job. Almost two-thirds of trainee GPs plan to work part-time just a year after they qualify, reporting that the job has become too intense to safely work more. A record 6.8 million people are waiting for hospital treatment in England, and 132,139 posts lie vacant across the NHS in England. Ian Sample hears from acute medicine consultant Dr Tim Cooksley about what's happening within the NHS, and speaks to the Guardian's health policy editor, Denis Campbell, about how the UK's health and social care systems ended up in crisis and whether they can be fixed
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