3: Alan Milburn: Can the NHS be saved?
The Rest Is Politics: Leading
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Is There a Trojan Horse in the NHS?
If you were still health secretary now today, what would you actually do to fix the apparent mess that we're in? Well, if the size of the cake is static and all that we're doing is dividing it between public and private in terms of staffing, doctors working here and working there, it doesn't really add to the overall volume. Biggest problem for health care throughout the world, including in our country, is the rising tide of chronic disease arthritis, diabetes, dementia,. And our system is not set up to deal with any of that. That's where the majority of the budget goes. The big problems are deep, structural, and fundamental and long term back to the 10 year
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