take a long hard look at ourselves. what we want, how we pay, what we smoke, what we drink, how we live, how we die. we are more likely to from comparable conditions than in other comparable countries and then there is the elephant in the ward, social care. the nhs is ours. let s hear from you. now for the news. health experts are warning that the nhs won t celebrate its 100th birthday without significant investment in beds, buildings and technology. three think tanks have made the claims as the service marks its 75th birthday. there ll be a special service to commemorate nhs workers at westminster abbey later. schools in england are facing further disruption, as teachers from the national education union strike over pay. they re walking out today and on friday. the government insists its latest pay offer is fair and reasonable. israel has carried out air strikes in the gaza strip, after rockets were fired overnight. the israeli army is withdrawing from jenin in the occupied
i’ili it the right investment and also the right ideas. people say reform when actually right ideas. people say reform when actually we right ideas. people say reform when actually we don t always know truly what that s going to do to the service george in dunstable, what do you have to say? i george in dunstable, what do you have to say? george in dunstable, what do you have to say? i agree with an earlier caller, in have to say? i agree with an earlier caller. in the have to say? i agree with an earlier caller, in the tie have to say? i agree with an earlier caller, in the tie completely - have to say? i agree with an earlier caller, in the tie completely and . caller, in the tie completely and utterly admired the clinical side and everything about the nhs. but having worked as a contractor for them for several years up and down them for several years up and down the country, i have witnessed the management side incapable or reluctant to make decisions, and then you end
is the interesting just wish that were possible. here is the interesting thing just wish that were possible. here is the interesting thing about the managers in the nhs. we love to hate them but managers in the nhs. we love to hate them but actually for an organisation of the size it is, around organisation of the size it is, around 15 organisation of the size it is, around 1.5 million people, we are very under around 1.5 million people, we are very under managed with less than 2% of the very under managed with less than 2% of the budget spent on managers. actuaiiy of the budget spent on managers. actually they need enough capacity to do these things. you are absolutely right, i think, there are things absolutely right, i think, there are things that absolutely right, i think, there are things that work very badly, i scream things that work very badly, i scream at things that work very badly, i scream at the it every day, and it should scream at the it every day,
shirked as you have said, we ve never shirked away from dispassionate debates shirked away from dispassionate debates and also that has been formalised in the sense of these types formalised in the sense of these types of formalised in the sense of these types of commissions. that was a bunch types of commissions. that was a bunch of types of commissions. that was a bunch of international experts who laid out bunch of international experts who laid out the plans in terms of what we need laid out the plans in terms of what we need to laid out the plans in terms of what we need to do about workforce, what we need to do about workforce, what we need we need to do about workforce, what we need to we need to do about workforce, what we need to do about workforce, what we need to do about workforce, what we need to do about use of technology, having a more joined up system, technology, having a more joined up system, and it did involve the proposal system, and it did invo