'The NHS is not just on its knees it’s on its face': Shadow Health Secretary speaks to LBC
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- Shadow Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting speaks to Sunday With Lewis Goodall.
0:00 Can Wes Streeting name all 6 of Labour's pledges?
1:03 Labour will tell NHS staff to work weekends to cut waiting times
3:33 Are migration levels too high?
5:52 Infected blood scandal
8:38 Should we be rethinking our commitment to Israel?
10:21 Labour's plan on workers' rights not being included in their pledges
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The Tories took something that was working, said it needed fixing…..and made it dysfunctional.
They have done that to everything .
The NHS hasn't worked for 40 year's, mainly because it's staff are infected with left wing nonsense.
Whilst making themselves rich instead.
Erm, we're you one of those that wanted the economy locked down and 450bn borrowed to pay for it, and didn't consider ANY of the consequences? Then throw in strikes and politicised unions and it's obvious what the problems are.
It wasn't any better under the socialists.
How much more money does this lazy orgainsation want before tax paying socialists start to squeak?
Only goes to show that privatization of any sort in public services doesn't work.
SDP Manifesto states they will rebuild it from bottom up. This guy may say it's not a shrine but it is... It's British culture. It's important 😊
SDP promise to rebuild it from scratch can't keep throwing money at stakeholders or throw money at Dr's and nurses already understaffed and say they can sort it by making them work eves and weekends that's nonsense. And then they will crash it.
It's our culture
I’m booked to have a hip replacement on NHS next Sunday. I’m told my consultant is working all bank holiday weekend getting his list down. According to the consultant’s secretary, the pre-op assessment clinic is way behind and none of us has been screened yet. The clinic doesn’t work weekends so there are 12 of us who are now wondering if our ops will be cancelled because the support isn’t there. The vast majority of hip replacements are done as day surgery now.
That's because they are. The watchword when my father got the op working was Leonardo da Vinci's comment that the body's a marvellous machine, so they used engineering skills to fit the implants. As quick as changing a motorbike cylinder, your job is to heal - 11 days - and then exercise. Gently. The only reason to be in is if other medical conditions impact that.
My dad went private, and guess what, they tried to con my dad, the gave us a precise quote, and now they’re trying to add a sneaky £400 for the x ray consultant because they’re contractors.
@@bigawdays5724 Sounds like someone's packing the bill. A consultant? Sounds like the road mender on Harley Street calling himself a Harley Street Specialist.
@@JelMain We also offered the doctor that my father have new x ray graphs taken in the NHS few days ago for he’s hip replacement, the doctor declined and say we will give you a new x ray, note that we’ve already declined and nowhere on the quote says X ray fee and we signed everything, on the paper we signed it only says you have to pay everything, but however the quote is already confirmed and a quote can not be changed.
Now it’s difficult for them to sent bailiff without proof of my dad actually escaping payments, they then threaten my father with bailiffs , and they’ve came once but my dad told him to p off because he have no legal knowledge, he thinks he’s job is just to collect peoples money.
Now they handover the case to another debt collecting company’, sending all sorts of letters to my dad threatening him.
@@JelMain this happened in clementine hospital, a hospital well known to save people, now turn into a international club of bandit Contractors.
We all know that the NHS is on its face. However, Wes Streeting is going to make our over worked and underpaid staff work overtime and at weekends!! WOW!!😮💨 How out of touch are these MPs!!
People already working in NHS already working overtime and not always getting paid for it. We need to train more people for sure. Nurses and midwives need free training again. We do not want private companies getting a hold of our NHS. Everything needs to be in-house. Also are the managers fit for purpose.
Well said
9and a half hours in A&E to get 5 stitches. It's an absolute joke at the moment.
Should have brought your own needle and thread
Never used to be but that's torys for you and Labour are torys in red coats.
Throwing a little extra cash forcing Dr's to give up weekends and evenings is NOT a solution. They previously said they wud look at private health are mixed with gov. It's just throwing caxh at stakeholders
SDP have promised to rebuild it and understand u can't throw cash at it because the cash doesn't go where it is supposed to.
Which hospital, please?
Longer in Wales run by Labour.
@DrRussell
St helier in Carshalton, got there at 6pm and walked back home at 3:15am.
Can you withdraw from involvement with huge US ‘healthcare’ companies? You know the giant I’m speaking of Wes…..
In one Cheshire-based hospital on a daily basis inpatients are injected with a Pfizer blood thinner
Why? Aspirin is off-patent and cheap and does as much to prevent blood clots, it even prevents patient misery as you're not stabbed in your stomach every day
It needs to be rebuilt from scratch. We need to stop throwing money at stakeholders.
SDP has promised to rebuild it to its former state... I'm not impressed with labour. They previously said they wud sell it or bring in 50 /50 private health care.
U can't just throw money at tired Dr's and say work weekends and evenings 😂 it's a ridiculous thing to say.
It was purposely dismantled by the government and due to that I lost my beloved mother last month. The negligence and level of care was that you'd expect in a third world country.
Sorry for the loss of your mother. I agree the health service is terrible. It makes you frightened to get ill.
why dont everyone pay the tv license nonsense fee to the nhs, nhs is failing you cannot even get a doctors appointment
It's deliberate though they want it to fail and Labour says it will give a teeny bit of cash to. Make Dr's work not only their full time job but work evenings and weekends too... Ridiculous and no intention of fixing the actual problems
SDP promised to rebuild it from scratch they have a great manifesto 7
Because this isn’t failing. This is a planned destruction. Where others see incompetence, I see that these people are very clever.
@@chongxina8288You are so right I have worked in the NHS and I have seen the monies wasted while the workers are made to cope with less and less budget every year.
Wes The Wally
Its called sabotage.
Its by design.
I know it is. But why?
So Social Care. Where is the pledge for social care???
Labour continues the privatisation
@@vijayafernando1 Not Labour policy, and not anything to do with the OP.
Thought Johnson was going to sort out social care.....they did nothing .
Streeting has taken £100,000 from private healthcare companies.
He's going to help finish the NHS off.
If only the public knew the waste within the NHS e.g. 'Quest Classic' patient standing frames, which cost £8,000 each, being scrapped after use by one patient. These could be cleaned and re-used, as could all the Rollators and Zimmer frames. A criminal waste of taxpayer's money.
Wes is getting money from usa health insurance corporations and remember Blair ramped up nhs privatisation
Blairs administration saw the highest satisfaction of the NHS since records began, so he was doing something right?
Always been underfunded and the prime immigration vehicle. Always wondered why Dr uni places were capped. Also the legal gravy train has been hammering nails into the NHS coffin.
Unfortunately I don’t have much confidence in it getting fixed with Wes Streeting at the helm.
The London Labour echo chamber at LBC is always a laugh!
Absolutely correct, except that Dough-face Streeting has made it clear that his solution to the problem is to outsource loads of NHS services to the private healthcare industry and as many already know, he has personally recived funding from private healthcare providers.
Because of the DEI managers& there inept hiring of other inept folk
Vote Jeremy Corbyn in Islington, Andrew Feinstein in Holborn and St Pancras, and Leanne Mohamad in Ilford North!
The problems of the NHS won't be solved just by throwing even more money at them. What the money is spent on is just as important as the amount spent - for a long time now a lot of the money has been spent on the wrong things (e.g. masses of 'diagnostic' tests, many of which are unnecessary).
Had to pay £540 yesterday for private dental treatment as my membership with the nhs is expired apparently? (went for checkup in 21and was told i was to get a call as no more checkups were being booked during covid ,no call & now out of my 2 yrs so struck off my dentist ive been with over 20 yrs ! Born & bred 54yrs UK/taxpayer ! what a joke !
The NHS currently is far exceeding its work load of any previous year. What is going up faster than the work is the demand. Our hospitals are full, patients are being treated in huge numbers, it is not on its knees. You ask the staff, they are working harder than ever before treating ,more people than ever before. However the demand is outstripping the capacity and if you just look at the unmet demand you are doing a great disservice to the NHS and its staff. An outsider could be forgiven for believing this on its knees criticism thinking nothing was getting done. Its is getting done but as people get older they get problems not seen is such numbers in the past.
Social care is the issue. You can't discharge people out to the community because of the lack of beds/staff there so they stat in hospital and that causes more pressure.
Dont let him kick you too hard Wes.......A & E out of bounds......Oh then you probably in the special treatment brigade.........
Reading from his pledge card was impressive...more private providers...
All Streeting and co can come up with is more privatisation. Another 'Labour' MP I would like to see lose his seat.
Red and blue Tories.
Had to wait nearly 2 years for tooth extraction 😑
AztraZeneca as recommended by ?
This is complete horsehit. It’s not a labour thing or a Tory thing. It’s the incompetent ministers playing political football with the NHS and not really understanding what it’s about, because they have no background in it.
This year there are 1000 trainees leaving medical school WITHOUT a job from august. So where are all these people going to go?
There’s a ridiculous bottleneck as you progress through training. So what happens then?
As a reward for getting your house in order, those with the lowest waits get to….. work more. Jee, thanks. What a reward.
And why do you assume this is incompetence? 😉 I think these people are much smarter than they’ll have you realise.
There's no nhs staff because they were turned in to shipmans.
In regard to the post war Gaza, Israel government has already said, that western governments can pay to sort out Gaza. Personally I think they would like to dispel Palestinians and build for Jewish settlers. Israel has no intention of paying towards building and sorting out Gaza for Palestinians.
Open borders and and NHS is impossible.
I wish we were far right :(
PAYE taxes the workers at source. We now need Pay On Wealth Tax (up wards scale as PAYE) if one has mre annual wealth of say 10 million £€ or $.
Falling into the right wing trope of saying “we should be training our own”, yet not addressing the elephant in the room of poor pay and working conditions.
If you don’t want staff to go to Australia, listening to their concerns and start paying people properly.
'The beating heart of the global economy', 'benefits and challenges' literally terrified of saying anything negative about one million plus new arrivals every year
Don't trust Yvette Cooper. Would also prefer Wes as PM now that he's arrived at common sense over women's rights. Need more MPs with common sense. Also, NHS should not be privatised. Is that what he is suggesting??
Everything looking like is working well.
You're being slightly unfair to Wes, based on the Guardian's list of six pledges he got them all right (and he did mention the antisocial behaviour one).
in FACT, according to the nuffield trust anyway, (LEFT-wing health focused organisation) the tory's have increased real spending, per capita, on the NHS throughout their time, only not at the same rate labour did
but then labour inherited a healthy economy from the tory's in 1997, but left an economic mess in 2010 for them to clean up !
Er.. it was the bankers playing fast and loose that caused the 2008 banking crises.
When you get better care in a government hospital in South Africa than you do in an NHS facility in the UK you know that there is a real problem...
Stop using it as a political wedge.
How about training people in the uk with at least the basic skills of nursing
But what does that mean? Dispensing drugs drom behind a computer wheeled station? After spending weeks in hospital these last years what's very apparent nurse don't wanna nurse & there ability to communicate to patients as sick people is non-existent
Why does the thumbnail look like the guys smoking a cigarette
The problems of the NHS are caused primarily by demographics and secondly by the poor system (single-payer healthcare) the government adopted after WWII.
Beyond reforms that abolish the NHS in favour of a market, the government can't solve the healthcare problem.
People are having too few children, and especially too few high-IQ children. Those of us alive can't even benefit from any real solution that's implemented. It's absurd that people think you can spend more money and solve the problem.
And mass immigration of 700k net last year alone who can all show up and use the NHS from day 1 doesn't help
Don't trust labour or conservative, they've both had many chances and only ever made things worse. Time to vote for the smaller parties or independants
Red and blue Tories.
NHS downhill trend started by labour, continued by Tories.labour public private partnerships meant private individuals get the money when as a sovereign country we could print as money as we need
You can’t print as much as you need. It causes devaluation, inflation, eventual stagflation and recession. The public suffers more and you will be here to complain again. It’s basic economics
We can’t just print as much money as we need, the basics of economics. NHS was in a much better state when they left office.
😂 All censored
Labour would privatise most of the NHS so they have said.
Source?
No thats not something Labour would ever say. Wes streeting said that the small percentage people who can afford to get private consultations could consider the reduction of strain on the NHS
@@biga1398 That is definitely the same thing as “Labour would privatise most of the NHS” :S edit: oops you weren’t replying to me sorry ;)
A farcical parody of political discourse, the only thing missing is "you cannot be serious"!
I'm amazed that the NHS is still free for all. The cost of everything today compared to when it was conceived Is astonishing. In time it will implode , and private health insurance will be the way.
It isn't free everyone pays national insurance for it.
“Labour to make NHS staff work more”? Very nuanced! Click bait for anti Labour listeners?
I wasn’t sure about Wes Streeting I like him more now I’ve heard him speak
You do realise that Labour caused the problems of the NHS when they opened the floodgates in 1997. The Tories have just continued Labours mass immigration policy and made it so much worse. You Lefties always cry that there is not enough funding, newsflash, there will NEVER be enough funding as there too many people demanding its services. Immigration is the sole reason the NHS is failing and no amount of screaming every ist and ism under the sun will change that fact. There are simply too many people for the service to handle and thinking that Labour will fix the mess they started is absolute lunacy. They want to keep borders wide open and even let millions more people in. The Left have doomed this country!
Yeah, he's not the most popular Labour politician but he came across alright here I thought.
It's not on its knees there to many people in the country aka immigration has gone through the roof to many people for the service provided
Before Brexit we employed many foreign care workers. Now the Tories waste money on consultants. Can you show me any evidence that immigration is the reason.
It's a bottomless pit.
Taxes need to go up if people refuse to accept the NHS wastes millions.
But then we all remember the uproar from Labour voters when asked to pay 1% more NI to fund their own social care.
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Wes is another reason not to vote labour.
We need to throw more tax payers money at it...and just pray it gets better!
its tori mark 2, why are labour doing this
Reality works, purity was offered and failed to be elected.
Red and blue Tories.
LBC.. sponsored by Labour.
LBC is a Tory radio station
So what, who sponsors GBeebies???????
You don’t need to worry…no difference between Labour and the Tories now…you are safe.
@@Cherrytune386 It might as well be Labour, considering how far GBeebies have helped drag the Tory party away from electability :D It's as if Labour had said "We need to make sure that we keep Novara Media and OJ happy".
Erm, Vanessa Felts, Ian Dale, Nick Ferrari… 🙄
Get conservatives out
Get non-taxpayers out.
@@desydukuk291 hi you a conservative hahhh
Wes is a hyperbole. Our NHS is the ENVY of the world and there are parts of it that work very well e.g. my local GP saved my life when my heart was failing. I don't want to hear from a cry baby MP who points out challenges without offering solutions that will maintain the NHS. The main issue is secondary care (hospitals). I want to hear solutions about how to improve NHS secondary care. Without the NHS, COVID would have obliterated the UK. And yes, i have worked in the NHS and seen how politicians are intentionally ruining it to encourage people to go private.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. He's saying that the NHS has been badly damaged by years of under-investment. This can be proven with data (e.g. on waiting lists). It isn't being a "cry baby" to point this out. He's saying that there's a problem and he even talked here about possible ways of helping to fix it.
@@weswheel4834Why is it underinvested? More and more money is added to the NHS budget every year so why is it underinvested compared to 30 years ago? Mass immigration has added 15 million more people in that time period who all use the NHS, 700k net last year alone. We simply cant build a new city worth of infrastructure and hospitals and Dr's and houses and schools and everything else needed for those numbers ever year.
Close the borders the NHS crisis goes away as does the housing crisis.
@@quillo2747no we pay consultants extraordinarily large wages. Our capacity has been slashed not the demand
@@quillo2747and the housing crisis also has nothing to do with immigration. Renting is at an all time high because of landlords not immigrants
@@quillo2747 Talk like that gave us Brexit, which made things worse in pretty much every way. Find someone else to listen to, eh?
The NHS isn't on its knees at all. It's doing just fine. Labour have to make you believe that so you'll vote for them.
Streeting yet another doubtful dodgy conman.