PM talks to NHS staff during visit to London hospital

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Sir Keir Starmer and Health Secretary Wes Streeting talk to NHS workers during a visit to University College Hospital in central London. The prime minister will later deliver a speech following the release of a report by Lord Darzi on the state of the National Health Service. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00So it's about setting and making sure it's exactly where you want it to be.
00:04Exactly right where we want it to be. That's it. We have a very...
00:07And you have up to 30 to 33 treatment for that.
00:12I mean, it's just...
00:15Yeah, yeah, so I drove out of here with our boy.
00:18Swept the pavement.
00:20A bit more cavalier by the time I'd get on the cable car.
00:23LAUGHTER
00:25I couldn't believe it really affected my horse.
00:29In all seriousness, we're... Yeah.
00:32I think we've got a massive recruitment issue in nursing.
00:36We are attempting to attract from within this country.
00:39Which I think is a big problem which Finland appears to pay attention to.
00:43Who doesn't value nursing expertise?
00:46They're simply there to go up and up and up,
00:48and they're in a terrible place at the moment.
00:50So it's a really... Because otherwise,
00:52and it would probably be some of your experience,
00:54you're travelling quite long distances.
00:57LAUGHTER
01:03Now, in order to get the waiting list out,
01:05we will use private water where we can just to...

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