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Doom, Gloom and the NHS

Amol and Nick on Keir Starmer's state of the NHS review and what can be done to improve the health service.

As Lord Darzi鈥檚 report on the state of the NHS is released, Nick and Amol take a look at what needs to be done to bring about real change.

They speak to Professor Sir John Bell - one of the country's most decorated doctors and an adviser to government during the Covid-19 pandemic - who believes that more funding is not the only way of improving the NHS.

Plus, the nation's favourite pub landlord Al Murray drops in with his moment of the week.

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