all the patients here have been triaged but are having to wait for a bed or test results. there is no privacy, some might argue dignity. their ailments a public spectacle. then this... a patient is having a seizure and the team charged with saving her life can barely make their way out to the resuscitation area because of the patients in the corridor. staff nurse andrea santos takes down the details of a new patient who has just been brought in. he has self—harmed by cutting his abdomen. a knife. it's a case of self—harm from a man with mental health problems. mental health cas refused to accept him, saying

he wasn't in crisis. did you go there, did you... he called them. yet the outside mental health assessment service, cas, refused to intervene, so he has ended up here. once again, our hospital's emergency departments are left carrying the can for so many other services in our community. the rush is thankfully over and andrea takes stock. unfortunately it all goes back to primary care. i think primary care needs help. to be able to support and avoid people coming into hospital. the gp service? notjust the gp, but community services as well. the thing about the nhs is that no matter what its challenges, we as a people still believe in the idea of a national health service, free at the point of delivery for everyone.

and the cast—iron belief in that idea means there will always be hope it can be better, pushing us to make it so.

here's ben chu. has been rising for decades. shortly after the nhs in today's money. health spending will continue to grow, citing those factors that have driven up spending until now — an ageing population and more demand

from around 9% today to 14.5% in 50 years�* time, now, many politicians argue it's important for the nhs to deliver high levels of productivity, in other words, to spend money more so how are things but measured outputs, things like operations completed productivity was still around 19% lower than it was five years however, it should be said, other estimates of health

a corner might have been turned in the delivery of health services after the shock of the pandemic. productivity in the health sector is an important objective, and the extent to which it's delivered will play an important victoria has more on the state of the nhs on newsnight over on bbc two shortly. after a ll after all �* the after all �*the coverage, afterall �*the coverage, inside the nhs today, who better to ask the nhs today—ywho'betterto ask, everything we the nhs todey—ywho'betterto eek everything we have been about everything we have been and and the about everything we have been secretary and the about everything we have been secretary an wes health secretary himself. tales in the health secretary himself, �*a’es in the studio that is newsnight a tonight. that is newsnight in a couple of minutes. remember to switch see you couple of minutes. remember to switch - see you switch over. see you themgg the health editor. interesting

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