Examining the NHS
A selection of recent Radio 4 programmes investigating the state of the health service.
Call You and Yours: Costing the NHS—You and Yours
The NHS of the future. How would you renew and revitalise our health service?
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Costing the NHS
Can we maintain the NHS much as we know it or do we need to envisage really big changes?
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Surgical Cuts
Mukti Jain Campion investigates a pioneering Indian model of cut-price healthcare.
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Episode 1—NHS: Changing Culture
Lesley Curwen tracks the initial introduction of managers into the NHS.
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NHS: Pricing Patients—File on 4 Investigates
With attention on A&E, is there a bigger problem in the way hospitals are funded?
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Night Hospital
Jackie Ashley investigates the standard of hospital care at nights and at weekends.
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Care to Be a Nurse?
Christina Patterson explores why nursing sometimes goes wrong and what can put it right.
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NHS Reforms—Inside Health
Dr Mark Porter reports on the new changes to the NHS. What do they mean for patients?
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Hospitals - Open All Hours?—File on 4 Investigates
Can the NHS afford to have more senior doctors working out of hours? Jane Deith reports.
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Accident and Emergency Crisis—The Report
Is A&E in England on the verge of collapse? Simon Cox investigates.
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Unhealthy Expectations?—Analysis
How our health debate avoids the real issue - care costs, and we must choose how to pay.
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Dangerous Hospitals?—File on 4 Investigates
Can we rely on the NHS to uncover hospital scandals? Presented by Gerry Northam.
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Rationing the NHS—Moral Maze
Should people with 'lifestyle illnesses' be denied NHS treatment? With David Aaronovitch.
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Call You and Yours: Hospital standards—You and Yours
Consumer phone-in. Julian Worricker asks, what can be done to raise hospital standards?
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