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Waiting game: What the rush to private health means for the NHS
Season 1
Episode 875
Published 3 years, 1 month ago
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As NHS waiting lists get longer, more people are turning to private healthcare. Is this skipping the queue accelerating a decline to a two-tier system, or will the demand for more encourage policymakers to fund the NHS properly to raise the standards? Efua Poku-Amanfo from the Institute for Public Policy Research joins Hannah Fearn in the Bunker to find out.
- “Young people 18-25 specifically… were less likely to have confidence in the NHS
- “There will be groups in our society who have options, whilst not ideal… the concern is for those who get left behind
- “For older people there’d often be a nostalgia to having a family doctor… young people are less likely to have that kind of nostalgia for the NHS.”
Written and presented by Hannah Fearn. Producer: Jet Gerbertson. Assistant Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Lead producer: Jacob Jarvis. Bunker music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Jade Bailey. Group editor: Andrew Harrison.
THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production
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