Tory MP Tim Loughton says the country is in a state of 'tremendous high risk' He warns that if we don't do something to mitigate the huge work force and capacity challenge, it will become a crisis. The new health secretary therese coffee has set out what is sort of an enshs action plan for tackling all these problems. She's going to give a major staement to the commons this afternoon outlining her plans.
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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