Politics latest: 'Very sobering message' for ministers as experts debate future of health service in special programme

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'If the UK wants those sort of health outcomes, the money needs to come from somewhere'. chesh analyses the number of beds, number of practising doctors, length of waiting lists, and number of vacancies in the NHS, as well as GDP spent👇 📺 Sky 501

The government's NHS policy has been"rearranging chairs", says the vice president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.

"What I can say without a shadow of doubt is in the 15 years of being a doctor, it has never even remotely been as bad as it is now," she says. She acknowledges that COVID made the situation worse, but says the problems have been building for over a decade.There are"quite simply" not enough GPs, says Dame Clare Gerada.

She explains that over the past 10 to 15 years, social determinants of health have got worse, such as homelessness, poor housing and bad nutrition - issues the NHS has to respond to. But the key issue, he explains, is national poverty, which he describes as a"massive problem in Britain". starts the show by explaining how the number of hospital beds has decreased in the UK over the past two decades.

Mr Pincher was the government's deputy chief whip last summer when he was accused of drunkenly assaulting two men at the exclusive Carlton Club in London.

 

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