Rachel Reeves joined Wes Streeting on a tour of St Thomas' Hospital following a £29 billion-a-year rise in NHS funding announced in House of Commons earlier today. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Are you alright?
00:01Very well thank you.
00:02How are you?
00:03How are you?
00:04How are you?
00:05Good to see you.
00:06Thanks for having us in.
00:07I know it's a rare occurrence.
00:08Yes, thank you.
00:09Hello.
00:10Hi.
00:11I'm a trusted man.
00:12Hi.
00:13Good to see you.
00:15I've met some colleagues, I think.
00:17Brilliant.
00:18We're just talking about their experiences and some of the issues, which obviously pay
00:26is one of the issues often in the headlines.
00:28Actually one of the things I think actually there's loads of non-pay issues about their
00:31experience at work that we need to help them with.
00:34Fantastic.
00:35And thanks for your support.
00:38...fellowship and it's aimed at nurses, midwives and health professionals and it centres
00:43on inclusive leadership behaviour.
00:45Amazing.
00:46What a challenging job you've got though.
00:48It sounds like you've funded and awarded.
00:49I love it.
00:50Absolutely love it.
00:51Very good.
00:52Wes?
00:53It's really, really nice of you.
00:54Thanks for having us in.
00:55Hello.
00:56Yeah.
00:57So we're the largest portion of the workforce.
00:59Yeah.
01:00I actually train here in 93 to 96.
01:02Okay.
01:03And I've been, my background is ED.
01:06Were you alive in 93, Wes?
01:08No.
01:09I know.
01:103% a year, but you know, actually for a few years in a row rather than sort of not knowing
01:15from one year to the next, which I hope is going to enable hospitals and other parts
01:20of the NHS to be able to plan for the future.
01:22Yeah.
01:23And then also putting in capital investment.
01:25Yeah.
01:26Both on the digital side and scanners and improvements and hospital building programme as well.
01:31So, yeah.
01:32And each time, and I don't think it was me, because certainly one of those times I was in
01:36disguise, I wasn't wearing a suit and tie.
01:38Another time I had to come straight from work, but I was seen within four hours as well,
01:43which given the pressures at this hospital, I was really impressed.
01:47Ironically, Rachel threatened to put me in the hospital if I didn't stop pestering her
01:51in the spending review and just accepted that we'd done very well.
01:54Yes.
01:55So at least I came through the front door, not your A&E door, because she put me in.
01:58We'll have a bed available for you.
01:59We'll have a bed available for you.
02:02But I think Rachel's absolutely right.
02:03I mean, I'm certain there's a little 10 year plan coming out very shortly.
02:06We're just going through it now with a final spending review shaped tooth comb and making
02:10sure everything is kind of, because I think what people are just really looking for
02:13at the moment, staff and patients, is hope.