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The new NHS app: “a doctor in your pocket”?
Episode 123

The new NHS app: “a doctor in your pocket”?

James O'Brien Daily · Global

July 4, 20251h 1m

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Show Notes

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has set out a digital overhaul of the NHS, centred around a new NHS app. He said “The NHS app will become a doctor in your pocket, bringing our health service into the 21st century”.  ​​Will this work?

Also, prolific shoplifters are to be barred from stores and prosecuted using the first national database of repeat offenders. Why has there been an epidemic of such successful shoplifting?

And, the producer of a documentary, Gaza: Doctors under Attack, that was dropped by the BBC has accused the corporation of trying to gag him and others over its decision not to show the documentary. James analyses this in the context of the BBC’s so-called “impartiality” regulations.

This episode was recorded on the 4th July. Catch James O'Brien weekdays from 10 am on LBC.