00:00So this is the biggest ever discussion about the NHS that the
00:04government have started and it's about the future and what the NHS is going to
00:09look like in 10 years time. It's really important that everybody has a say in it
00:13because they're providing three areas that they want to shift forward for the
00:18NHS. One of them is to move all services that they can from the hospitals into
00:24the community. So that's things like community diagnostics like the new
00:28centre they've got, the Metro Centre, where you can go and have blood tests
00:32and scans done. So that's a good shift for patients but for some patients they
00:37prefer things to be in hospital. This is an opportunity to have your say. Another
00:42shift that they're talking about is becoming more digitally enabled. So that's
00:47things like the NHS app, being sent things through email and also having your
00:52records no longer on paper but actually digital. Now that's a really good thing
00:57for some people and for people who are tech savvy that's something that people
01:01would welcome but there's a lot of people who don't have access to data or
01:06can't afford internet so we don't want people left behind so we need to hear
01:11those views too. And the final bit is about the shift from just treating
01:18people to actually having an NHS that prevents people from being sick. So what
01:23the government's done is they've created a website called changenhs.uk
01:29and they've got an open public survey and questionnaire on there where people
01:36can fill in their views and let the government know what they think the NHS
01:41needs to look like in 10 years time, what would make their lives easier. Across the
01:45region the health watchers are all doing focus groups and discussion groups and
01:50those focus groups are about two hours long and we're just asking people to
01:54come along and have a discussion and tell us their views on the NHS.
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