NHS waiting lists, funding, staffing, maternity scandals, Alzheimer's drugs, social care — Paul Gallagher, a 20-year veteran of UK health journalism, on whether the NHS is actually broken or just badly managed.

In this episode of HealthTech Hour, Steve Roest speaks with veteran health journalist Paul Gallagher about the pressures facing the NHS, including waiting-list backlogs, workforce shortages, delayed hospital discharges, social-care gaps and the political sensitivity surrounding reform.

Paul draws on two decades of healthcare reporting to examine why the NHS repeatedly falls into short-term crisis management, how public expectations compare with the amount the UK is willing to spend, and why discussions about restructuring are so often reduced to fears of privatisation.

The conversation al ...