joined on the line now by dr malcolm kendrick who's an n.h.s. general practitioner welcome dr kendrick the government has been spending money hand over fist as needed in this unprecedented time of pandemic is it realistic to expect it to or ask it to shell out an extra 8000000000 on the hospitals at the moment. well you know this is a lot of money being spent. but i mean we're looking at things that are important and really important i mean they're spending who knows how much they're spending they say something like 27000000000 on the on the testing which many people think in many cases it's just money that it's not not being spent wisely and we have to catch up with the medical issue i mean it was a personal issue i have a knee problem from a long term injury and my my operation. suspended at the moment so yes i mean there's a lot of suffering there's a lot of problems here there's much to catch up on and a low people say well these are not life threatening in many cases a lot of the things that are being postponed are not immediately life thre