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1 speed, ,, , , this a way. let's look at speed... this will be his second olympics, but this time the objective is to bring back more than just memories. the last games, i was a rabbit in the headlights, taking it all in, the ceremonial and everything else. this time, we are certainly coming to compete. we have already had a silver medal. we have had records, speed records, all sorts. we have the kit, equipment and personnel to do it. those sat behind him have faith in their front man. immense pressure. but i have been with him for the last five years, i have seen him coming a long way. literally, how him coming a long way. literally, now you have so much faith in him, you look at him and he will have eyes of steel. and they will certainly be fixed on the big prize over the next month. kane good luck to him and the rest of the team. the winter games is across the bbc everywhere next month. now, england's cricketers are targeting a whitewash in the one
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day internationals in australia having already wrapped up the series, but with a few days to go before their next match, moeen ali and adil rashid are attempting to keep themselves entertained with a bit of a quiz. here is ali asking rashid some general knowledge questions, but he seems to be running into problems with one in particular. who is the president of america? hillary? how? donald trump! he got there in the end. our top story tonight, that is of course, kyle edmund into his first grand slam semifinal at the australian open. he plays marin cilic in the early hours of thursday. phil neville is the new england lionesses manager. we will be right across the second leg of the league cup semifinal between bristol city and manchester city. but from me and the rest of the team at the bbc sports centre, good
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night. we are now going to look in more detail at the thorny issue of nhs funding. the prime minister rebuked the foreign secretary borisjohnson. he made a highly publicised push to give the health service an extra £100 million a week. let's speak to the conservative mp and former gp sarah wollaston, who also chairs the health select committee. she had the health secretaryjeremy hunt in front of the committee a couple of hours ago. good evening. i wonder if i could start... casting aside the rights or wrongs of the foreign secretary stepping on another minister's turf, is the idea that more money coming in and of itself, will help the nhs? undoubtedly, the
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nhs and social care do need more money. the other issues are around the workforce. of course, tackling the workforce. of course, tackling the workforce. of course, tackling the workforce issue is very difficult unless you have the funding. funding lies at the root of a great deal of what needs to move forward. but not just a great deal of what needs to move forward. but notjust here and now, looking ten years ahead and looking across not just looking ten years ahead and looking across notjust the nhs, but social ca re across notjust the nhs, but social care and public health. the whole system now and in the long—term. care and public health. the whole system now and in the long—termm recent days, that ten years seems to bea recent days, that ten years seems to be a crucialfigure recent days, that ten years seems to be a crucial figure that people like yourself are pushing at the moment, saying, in effect, that we don't wa nt to saying, in effect, that we don't want to know what the nhs is getting next year, or next week, we want to have a long—term budget for it? next year, or next week, we want to have a long-term budget for it? we do need to address the here and now as well. but we need to get away from the culture of short—term is that exists around the nhs and social care. we need to take the long view. workforce planning is a
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long—term issue. it was very encouraging to hearjeremy hunt expressing his personal view that it should happen as well, both for funding and the workforce. that is very encouraging. also, to hear him say today, when asked about his new job title, the department of health and social care, whether that was just a change of branding and stationary, or did it mean anything? he was quite clear that it meant that he would be leading on the green paper. pressed on that, he also said that he didn't think it made sense to consider social care in isolation. that is encouraging. at the moment, the green paper is set to look just at social care for older adults. everybody that looks at that, and notjust older adults, look at working age adults that need social care, look up the nhs and at prevention and public health in the workforce. let's bring all of these ci’oss workforce. let's bring all of these cross system issues together. not just now, but in the long—term as. let's explain to the public how that
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needs to be funded. the other option is that we continue as we are, with small increases of just is that we continue as we are, with small increases ofjust over 1% a year, which is not keeping up with the extraordinary increase in demand and costs. so, there is a gap emerging. there is no flax in the system. when we have something like a flu epidemic or norovirus, the whole system can grind to a halt. couple of questions arising from that, the first is on the funding. it is politically very, very difficult in this country to talk to the population as a whole and to say that there might be changes in the way the nhs is funded. thinking about this in the office, before this interview, we used to get free prescriptions. we don't any more. we used to get free dental checks, we don't any more. we used to get free eye tests, we don't any more. i wonder whether there is a model that you might have in your head that might be pushed, were actually there
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is some change in the way we access the gp system or the hospital system, a&es? the more you introduce things like top ups and charging, the more you widen health inequality. my personal view is that those fundamental founding principles of the nhs, surrounding a universal service that is free at the point of need, based on your need and not your ability to pay, i think that is where we should stick with, that is what we should stick with. that is the most treasured, underlying principle of the nhs. as i say, any other system that you start to tack on to that, as we have seen with dental top ups and so forth, which have been there for some time, they start to increase inequality in the system. i think we shouldn't keep going further down that route. but it is one of the options and one of the options we should set up for the public. my personal view is that i would like to see others reimagining how national insurance works, so we call
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a national health and care insurance, so people can see where their money is going. then we can start to reopen conversations about how everyone contributes fairly to that. you could then say, well, you also need to bring in intergenerational fairness. also need to bring in intergenerationalfairness. we have a lot of young adults that are in effect paying graduate tax by paying back student loans. should we ask those young people to also be paying into the system when, perhaps, wealthy, older adults in retirement are not paying anything? so, let's ta ke are not paying anything? so, let's take the whole system and say, well, do we then have conversations about the fair balance between people that are employed and self—employed for a fund that is looking at something we are all going to benefit from? that is on health and social care. time and again, people say, wherever i 90, and again, people say, wherever i go, iam and again, people say, wherever i go, i am happy to and again, people say, wherever i go, iam happy to pay and again, people say, wherever i go, i am happy to pay more towards harry nhs delivering on the principles that we value so much. but people also want to see fairness in the way everybody contributes to that. so, we need to go to the
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public and explain all of the options. what we do not need is another convention of the great and the good, describing the problem, or setting out what looking at the investigation of what all the options could be. that has already been done. we have had a number of commissions that have looked at this, a house of lords inquiry. they set out what all the possible funding options should be. what we 110w funding options should be. what we now need is delivery. we need a group of people that can explain what all of the options are, including the option of doing nothing and what that means. including the option of doing nothing and what that meanslj including the option of doing nothing and what that means. i am really sorry to have to cut you off. we are coming up to the top of the hour. thank you for outlining all of that. sorry we don't have time to talk to you a bit longer. let's look at the weather. hello once again. storm georgina, the next named storm in the sequence has been named by the irish weather service and is on its way towards the north—western quarter of the british isles. notice the number of
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isobars. the wind is a realfeature during the rest of tonight. especially so across northern and western parts of the british isles. it will be complete, as you can see, by some really heavy rain. temperatures are not too bad at all. still that my old field to proceedings. as we start the new day, our concerns are about the strength of the wind and there is a lot of rain to be had. bbc local radio will keep you right up to the mark, iam radio will keep you right up to the mark, i am sure. notjust near the centre we have concerns. this front its own right will spread wet and windy fair right down and across all of england and wales during the course of the day. it is near the centre we could see gusts up to 70 not 80 mph. a mixture of sunny spells and showers. wherever you heading, take care. —— wherever you are heading. you're watching beyond 100 days.
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