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What is the state of the English NHS?

Jeremy Hunt promised to increase nurse training posts in England in his conference speech, but Phillip Lee, a justice minister who still practices as a GP, described the NHS and welfare state as a "Ponzi scheme... that's about to collapse".

Daily Politics presenter Jo Coburn looked at the state of the English health service with Niall Dickson, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents organisations in the health service, and Conservative MP Andrew Selous, a member of the health select committee.

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