17/04/2014 The Papers

from the women's Super League where defending champions Liverpool have

been taking on Manchester City. Tennis and the snooker ball coming

up after the papers. Hallow. Welcome to our look ahead to

what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me Bonnie Greer and

Sam Coates. Let's have a look at some of the front pages. We will

start with a striking picture of holy week celebrations in Spain.

That is dominating the front page of the Daily Telegraph. Some foreign

doctors lacked the necessary skills, it is claimed, to work in the NHS.

The trial for Abu Hamza is on the front of the Daily Express. The

daily malice reporting on the cost of a 13 year legal battle involving

a whistle`blowing NHS cardiologist, who had been sacked. On the front

page of the Daily Mirror, it is dedicated to a story about a baby

who is reportedly infected by meningitis from the family cat. We

will start with the Daily Mail. After the mid`Staffs disgraceful

situation, thousands of people apparently dying as a result of lack

of care and so on and so forth. We are going to be protected. This

story will upset a lot of people. That is probably why it is there. We

do not know yet a lot about it. It is one of the kinds of story that

the Daily Mail does, man against a woman against the machine against

the state. It pretty much fits into their kind of ethers. I was thinking

before, it is a strange story in a way. What exactly is the Daily Mail

saying other than, here is an example of a person up against the

system once again and the state? They do put in there was a 13 year

battle because it goes across the time the Labour government was in

charge. You wonder why it is on the front page will stop they are not

telling us very much about it. We can read it quite narrowly as

someone who saw a lot of issues going on in the NHS and felt it

should be made public and the system was trying to squash him. It strikes

me as a rather good story and quite legitimate front page offering from

the Daily Mail. One of the features quite a lot of the NHS scandal that

have happened in recent years is the good whistle`blower. Someone who is

speaking up and, for whatever reason, concerns were addressed and

there was an attempt to silence them. To be honest, anyone

interested in the well`being of the NHS would be keen to let the views

of these sorts of people percolated up. It is an incredibly difficult

issue. We are dealing with people being asked to complain about

bosses. No amount of legislation will make that easier. There is a

new statute you refer to from Jeremy Hunt. Then we have to complain to

the very Boss you probably complaining about. A lot of people

would feel their careers would hit the buffers. What I am saying is,

this is a 13 year battle. Why is it now? I'd agree you to make an

interesting point. The NHS has always been seen as an organisation

which cuts across party lines. You do not slag off the previous Health

Secretary because of something that might have happened or whatever. In

this instance, that is exactly what happened. Jeremy Hunt and, his name

escapes me... The former Health Secretary. Andy Burnham. They

actually were at loggerheads. It does deal to many people as if that

was the first time it happened. Jeremy Hunt got very close to

libelling Andy Burnham. He threatened him with proceedings if

you did not back off. Jeremy Hunt was saying Andy Burnham knew certain

things and, of course, Andy Burnham said he did not know these things.

Jeremy Hunt levelled it. As someone born in America, whose whole

experience of the medical system, we have no health insurance in the

United States. The sort of dismantling of the NHS for whatever

reason this particular government thinks is necessary, I find

absolutely appalling. It is frightening. This kind of story, we

do not have the inside page so I do not know what audience and outs of

this are, is another nail in the Coffin of this great institution.

The fact is, it is a conservative coalition Health Secretary who has

brought in a law to protect whistle`blowers. And he should. That

seems quite right. The NHS is going to be a very big battle ground at

the next election. We saw quite a significant moment in the NHS today.

We saw the target of seeing people within 18 weeks of a GP referral

breached for the first time. The Government confirmed that had

happened because of the pressures on the NHS. It does feel like we are

going to see quite a lot of them to and fro over the way the coalition

have overseen the changes in the health service over the next year.

It is a very difficult picture to get a handle of. It is unclear to

me, as an observer, quite who is winning this battle and how dramatic

the changes are that have been made so far. There is a lot of rhetoric.

I would not want to referee. I do not know what happened in Andy

Burnham 's office and I do not know if what Jeremy Hunt is saying is

rhetoric. In the end, we are going to just be watching the data to see

whether NHS hospitals country people in the time they are meant to and

look at the structural changes. Only a certain number of places will have

this 24`hour NHS service. That is what is happening now. This is going

to be ten, 20 years. Will be talking about the NHS a hell of a lot in the

run`up to the election. We are going to go on to Page two of the Daily

Mail. Can a fragile truce prevent Ukraine falling into the abyss? They

seem to agree on something. John Kerry, the US Secretary of State and

the Russian Foreign Minister to seemed to have come to a deal that

has seen compromises on both sides. Vladimir Putin has agreed to try to

help disband some of the gangs that are roaming around eastern Ukraine

that are seen as militia, who are stoking up popular discontent. They

are saying we need to go in there because of the unrest and take

control of another portion of eastern Ukraine. In terms of what

John Kerry has had to give, they have had to concede a restructuring

of Ukraine, giving different local areas different regional control,

which does allow Putin to say he got something out of this. You have to

remember that not all of the cards were on the side of John Kerry. You

look at the tough rhetoric coming out of America about sanctions and

such, but then again, Europe has not really been anything like as tough.

What is interesting to me, any sovereign nation that says

basically, we have the right to protect our language nationals is

the same as if the French president said we are coming to London because

the French speakers are not happy. That is what we are not tackling.

That is the basic premise. That is what Adolf Hitler used before World

War II about the German`speaking people. We cannot let that kind of

rationale though past. The UN has already condemned it. It is

ridiculous. There are schools in predominantly Russian speaking areas

where you are not allowed to speak the language. Absolutely. It needs

to be challenged. The basic idea he has been putting forth to the

popular press is that these people have been asked to come in. These

are our language speakers and we have the right to protect them. It

has to be deeper than that. Foreign doctors lack skills for the NHS,

according to the front of the Daily Telegraph. One wonders why they are

now doing in the first place? I have foreign doctors around me. I do not

know what this is about. Someone who has come over from the United

States. When did this happen? I saw a foreign doctor this morning. I do

not know what they mean by what skills they lack. They do not have

the credentials are a British doctor has, how did they get in here? It is

another anti`NHS story. They say they have a series of tests which

are not as stringent for foreign doctors as British doctors. If that

is the case, why are they allowed in? The bottom line is there and not

enough doctors, particularly in A It is not the case that there is a

huge extra number of foreign doctors in this country than, say, ten or 15

years ago, but there is a huge increase in the number of foreign

doctors stories in the papers. One of the things that is perhaps worth

thinking about, though, is as you look overseas to bring people do

Britain, it is getting harder with changes to the visa regime, but you

get a lot of people training in Britain and going overseas

themselves. Florida and the United States. Something like half of the

trainees in Western Australia are British expats. And in America, and

NHS training in the United States is considered a supreme, and you can

ask for top dollar. So it is quite... So is it a story to say

that foreign doctors are allowed in this country, and they don't have

the skills of British doctors, yet they are legally, officially allowed

in? Is that a story? Well, it is... It is a story if they mess it up. It

is a story by university College London. One wonders why they did

that. They are a hospital and an academic institution, they would

look at the evidence and come to a judgment about an issue that is

quite important, because I think it is worth academic examination of

this. People have an emotional and pragmatic reaction to foreign

doctors, some worry they are not as good, so it is worth looking at the

extent to which that is true, and they have found some grounds for

agreeing with that. Language, of course, is a big issue. It is a

subject that merits careful and not hysterical looking at. It always

did, that is my question, why now? All right, OK, the front page of the

Daily Mirror, baby given meningitis by a cat. This is, you know,

this... I don't know about these kind of stories. This little child

on the front cover of this paper, I don't quite understand what that is

about. Out of the deepest level of it, what is it for? I would not have

my child pose like this, that is my first point. What are we saying?

This is what I am trying to understand. This is another story,

another paper, cats and meningitis, is there something deeper going on?

Is it's just a scare story? Anyone with a cat should be worried about

it? I think we have had a couple of cats and baby stories in the last

month. I think if there was a genuine problem, we would have known

about it. University college might have done a study about it! The

reason that you read about them is because there is something quite

deeply ingrained in our sort of societal psyche about cats, babies,

and parts they do not sit comfortably together. But actually

that pretty much is an urban myth. There is some evidence that dogs are

more dangerous than cats when it comes to babies, the suffocation

myth is not true. And as both a parent and owner of two cats, they

are perfectly happy cohabiting, and there is no issue there. This is an

individually very tragic case, occasionally papers focusing on one

thing that is shocking, but I would draw any wider conclusions. It makes

a... A horrible story, terrible story. You guys will be back an

hour. I suppose, yeah! We have pretty much knocked every headline,

haven't we? Stay with us on BBC News, because the top of the hour

will have much more on the talks in Geneva to try to resolve the

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