Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Prime Minister Keir Starmer promising to reform the NHS

Over in the UK, Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to propose significant reform for the NHS.

A new report revealed ballooning wait times, delays in getting urgent medical treatment and cancer care and rising costs are harming public health - and costing lives.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says Starmer claims the health system needs 'major surgery'.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Into Brady UK correspondence with US.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Now hey indun Hello Heather, great so speak to you again.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Yes, so, keys Stam has found out that the NH
chase is a bit stuffed.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yes he has. Look, you've got to applaud him because
one of the first things he did on going into
number ten Downing Street was Commissioner report. He knew it
was stuffed, but he just wanted to see how badly.
And the report is in it makes terrible reading. Basically
everything is being held back and it's not for you know,
want of money or people or resources. It's the management,

(00:31):
it's the lack of intelligence. It's the British Medical Association
and its conservative leadership apparently holding a lot of things back.
So Starmer's going to give a speech in the next
few hours. The NHS National Health Service here is a
cherished institution running since nineteen forty seven and it's free
from the point of entry with treatment, you know, from

(00:52):
cradle to grave, and Starmer basically is going to tell
the British public today that it requires major surgery, not
another sticking plaster. Absolutely every aspect of the NHS is
going to get reformed under Starmer's leadership. And I think
it's been half a century in the comingness. It really has.

(01:12):
So let's see if Starmer can do something that no
prime minister has managed to achieve before. What does he mean.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
By major surgery? Has he given us any indication of
what it is that he's thinking of doing.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
I think for a start, they're going to stop chucking
money at hospitals that are not performing. I mean, you've
got a lot of very highly paid consultants and senior
leadership in the NHS and the money keeps going to
certain hospitals, but the results are not there, and it
will be the same as you know, pumping money into
a failing rugby team or a footy club and expecting

(01:45):
wins to keep coming and nothing has been happening. I mean,
they've made zero progress. This is one really scary stat
early detection of cancer in the UK in the last decade.
The report says they have made zero progress. There are
far better countries in the world with smaller economies and
less money than the UK and they are smashing this.

(02:08):
So I mean, you know, there's a lot of arrogance
I think here in the medical profession. The money. You know,
they have a great lifestyle. These guys and girls, Yeah,
they highly qualified people, but let's be blunt here, they
have not been delivering bang for the book for a
very very long time. And I think Starmar's going to
sort that out.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, he's hoping. I mean, you really need this sometimes,
don't you. Okay, this Andrew film that's going to come out,
how bad is it?

Speaker 2 (02:32):
It's really bad. So the reviews are in, and I'm
not talking about, you know, entertainment value bad. It's excellent entertainment.
But in terms of Andrew's reputation and legacy and the
fact that you know, a lot of people will see
these imagined conversations behind the scenes and take it as fact.
It's called a Very Royal Scandal. It's made by Emily Maitliss.

(02:53):
It's basically horror version of the events leading up to
and including the now notorious interview with Andrew talking about
his pal, the pedophile Epstein. So it pulls now punches.
Andrew comes across as an extremely unlikable, extremely unpleasant, very thick,

(03:14):
entitled man, and the timing of it could not be
worse because Charles now is going all out on this
issue of Royal Lodge. He does not want to keep
paying six million dollars a year to keep his brother
in that house with his ex wife. Charles wants him out.
And the major headline the other day from a friend
of Charles talking to the papers, which must have been

(03:34):
clear by the King himself, was pay your way or
pack your bags. That's how bad it's got between them.
And this film lands next week.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Okay, so he will use it as ammunition to be
able to try to basically evict Andrew. But where does
Andrew go if he gets evicted?

Speaker 2 (03:49):
So well, there's a beautifully restored cottage that costs somewhere
in the region of eight million dollars the renovation to
Frogmore Cottage, which wasn't good enough for Meg and Harry,
but it's certainly deemed good enough for Andrew. And that's
where Charles wants him to go. It's in the grounds
of Windsor, it's within the security cordon and it's there

(04:10):
and it's empty and for a bachelor man apparently in
his sixties, you know, that's where the King wants his
younger brother to go. Andrew's kicking back, but he hasn't
got a leg to stand on. I mean, the guy
can't be seen in public. He will get ridiculed if
he appears anywhere, and he is of no use to
the royal family. And I think what we saw this

(04:31):
week really positive news from the Princess of Wales that
she's cancer free. We've seen Charles embracing your rugby players
last night and hugs and a beautiful song they sung
for him. You know, it has been a positive week
for the House of Windsor, but I think they're bracing
themselves for next week courtesy of good old uncle Andrew
yet again.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, once again, I thank you ind as always, We'll
talk to you again next week. That's into Brady are
UK correspondent.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
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