Can the UK government afford everything it wants to do?
Adam is joined by BBC economics editor Faisal Islam and BBC health editor Hugh Pym to discuss the news that resident doctors, who used to be called junior doctors, have announced strike dates for later this summer. The government says it wonât reopen negotiations with the British Medical Association, which represents resident doctors.
Plus, the chair of the inquiry into the infected blood scandal says that victims have been harmed by delays to the compensation scheme. The government announced ÂŁ11.8 billion pounds to fund compensation at the autumn budget, but the inquiryâs chair, Sir Brian Langstaff says there are âobvious injusticesâ in the way the compensation scheme has been set out.
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00:00 Introduction
01:44 Doctors Strikes
13:09 Infected Blood Compensation
23:52 OBR Fiscal Report
