00:00The health system is always going to be under pressure during the winter period. It's a
00:06sort of inevitable consequence of the fact that there's lots of bugs going around and
00:09people get down with sort of ailments that, you know, perhaps in the summer it's not quite
00:13so much of a problem. It's certainly sort of one of the things that the current government
00:16came into power saying that they were going to improve, but hey, you know, it's going
00:20to take a long time and a lot of money before we ever sort of see the fact that we can sort
00:25of roll up at A&E or our doctors, people getting to hospital and then effectively being sort
00:30of stuck in a queue in the back of an ambulance perhaps, or even in the sort of the corridor
00:34and people being treated in the corridor and even, you know, being sort of, having to sort
00:38of stay in hospital corridors. I mean, it's obviously sort of reprehensible in many ways,
00:43but of course the sort of the health system, you know, what can they do? They have very
00:46limited resources and can only sort of work with what they've got.
00:51With neurovirus cases at high levels, Amy Douglas from the UK Health Security Agency
00:55said it was essential for the public to take precautions against neurovirus, which was
01:00at levels said to be way above what they are usually seen as. She said it's important to
01:04take measures to avoid passing the infection. Neurovirus can be treated by keeping hydrated
01:09and resting.
01:10I know, of course, we've also got the issue that sort of the staff, where do they come
01:15from? You know, we're in the sort of the midst of sort of the, another sort of debate about
01:19immigration, which will, I suspect, not go away this side of the election. And we have
01:23to sort of bring in staff from elsewhere. You sort of can build hospitals if you could
01:27afford it, and then you've got to staff them. So there's a big, big problem. But dare I
01:32say it, you know, I know sort of people who sort of live in sort of Europe. And of course,
01:35if you go to your local hospital, you do not get treatment until you sort of pay. So I
01:40think we're at the sort of the stage now, and it may have to be a sort of Labour government
01:44that makes that sort of really difficult decision of how we're actually going to sort of fund
01:47the health service going forward, because surely we cannot continue in this crisis that
01:52we seem to be perpetually in.
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