This is the guardian. Denis yous, thanks for coming on and taking us through all this. You can find all our rporting on the n h s crisis and terase coffee's upcoming statement at the guardian dot com. And just before you go, if you didn't catch the trailer at the start of this episode, then you need to know about a new six part guardian podcast,. Can i tell you a secret about a siver stalker who wreaked havoc on line? It's going to be a really fascinating lesson. All the episodes will be available on friday the 20 third to binge.
The UK’s new health secretary, Thérèse 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. Help support our independent journalism at
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