It comes as the Prime Minister says there will be no extra funding without a reform.
Oliver Leader de Saxe reports.
Oliver Leader de Saxe reports.
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00:00The health service under surgery. That was the message from the Prime Minister earlier today
00:06As he labeled the NHS broken following a damning independent investigation
00:12This report I'm holding my hands conducted by Lord Darzi
00:18163 pages and paints a pretty grim picture of the NHS
00:24It says national health is deteriorating
00:27Waiting times are on the rise as well as waiting times rising for people looking for a GP appointment
00:35For one GP who has worked in Kent's health care system for decades
00:40None of this is a surprise
00:42We've had a major hit over the last 10 to 15 years in the amount of NHS funding that comes into the community
00:50That effect has got to the point now
00:53Where we would like to take on more nurses and more doctors to actually see people quicker
00:57We haven't got the money to be able to do that. So we need something to happen
01:02They're saying they're not going to put a lot more new money into the NHS
01:05But that means that money's going to have to come out of hospitals and into the community to make that work
01:11In his speech Zakir Starmer outlined a 10-year plan for the NHS that included digitizing the health service
01:20Moving care to the community and making it more preventative
01:24The NHS is at a fork in the road
01:28And we have a choice about how it should meet those demands
01:33Don't act and leave it to die
01:37Raise taxes on working people or reform to secure its future
01:43Now working people can't afford to pay more
01:46so it's reform or
01:49die
01:50Strong words and cold comfort for the Kent local medical committee who say investment is key
01:56I think you know when you look at the sort of resources that we get per patient per year
02:01About a hundred and seven hundred eight pounds per year per patient, but absolutely everything on cap demand
02:07I'm not entirely sure people would see that as enough and I don't think it is enough
02:12So to say that, you know, you don't want to resource the NHS adequately
02:17I'm a little bit concerned about
02:19With the NHS in such dire straits Kent's medical professionals are waiting to see
02:26Whether the government's treatment will bring the NHS back on the pathway to recovery
02:32Oliver Lewis for KMTV in Medway