Stephen Powis – ‘There is trouble brewing this winter’
The National Health Service is bracing itself as the strike dates set by the Royal College of Nursing begin to loom, with the first to take place on Thursday 15 December. Laura Kuenssberg sat down with Stephen Powis, the medical director of NHS England, to discuss the many strains on the system. Powis suggested that if people thought that previous NHS winter crises were bad, there wasn’t much cause for hope in 2022:
James Cleverly – ‘We have to be sensible with our expenditure’
On Sky News, Jayne Secker spoke to the Foreign Secretary James Cleverly about the government’s role in alleviating, and hopefully averting, the strikes. However, Cleverly highlighted the immense cost of acceding to union pay demands:
Cleverly – China is ‘potentially an important partner for good’
Kuenssberg also spoke to Cleverly and quizzed him about whether the Prime Minister still saw China as the UK’s ‘number one threat’:
Wes Streeting – I’ve been treated like a ‘heretic’ by the BMA
Secker interviewed the Shadow Health Sec Wes Streeting, who has attracted anger from the British Medical Association following his remarks about the difficulties the public face when trying to access GP appointments:
Emma Runswick – BMA members ‘will be gobsmacked’ by Streeting’s approach
And finally, Secker spoke to the deputy chair of the BMA, Emma Runswick, and sought a response to her conversation with Streeting:
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