[英伦广角] 2015-05-23 英国护士因不满加班工资待遇或将举行大罢工

 A statement of intent from the Prime Minister, the first speech of his second term at a Birmingham GP surgery, and a promise to fund and transform the NHS by 2020 into a seven day operation.Diseases don't work weekdays nine to five, so neither can we.

Those election accusations¹ that he would cut and privatize the NHS untrue argues the PM, in fact he says he'll fund eight billion pounds a year to provide free health care wherever and whenever it's needed.

Today as we speak about 7.5 million people have access eight in the morning to eight in the evening, seven days a week to a GP, that will be 18 million by the end of this year, and we want to have that available for everybody by the end of the parliament, and that is in our plans and in the money that we are providing, and i'm confident we'll achieve it.

The surgery is in a partnership² that was given funding for high tech general practice by the PM's challenge fund.

One thing you do notice is that there are very few people waiting in the waiting room, this is one reason the contact room called the health hub here 70,000 patients across 15 GP surgeries are dealt with in a new way, this is another reason, the app helps connecting, manage those appointments, a new thing here, and lastly this Skype consultations³ mentioned by the Prime Minister, part of many types of technology that the Prime Minister says will transform the NHS, starting with GP surgeries, but is he raising expectations too high with this promise of seven day service and where is the fund?

Nurses could go on strike at the seven day plans and even the man in charge of NHS England sounded a note of caution with the PM in the audience.

We'll also need careful discipline facing our ambition to expand the services, be it improve cancer care, mental health, primary care all those things we want to do, including seven day services.

Meanwhile patients are adjusting to this new world of virtual GPs, but challenges remained on GP recruitments.

Workload⁴ is a major issue and i think what we found is by scaling up, you can start to use different health care professionals to sort of service some of the exact issues of pharmacies⁵, introducing nurses and into the model as well, not every patient needs to see a GP, but by introducing other health care professionals, maybe that will help address some of the workload issues.

The PM also told Sky news there was no need for another top down NHS reorganization, but it's now raising big expectations about health for the public, such things far easier to promise than to deliver, but that is his challenge.

1 accusations   

n.指责( accusation的名词复数 )；指控；控告；（被告发、控告的）罪名

参考例句：

• There were accusations of plagiarism. 曾有过关于剽窃的指控。
• He remained unruffled by their accusations. 对于他们的指控他处之泰然。

2 partnership   

n.合作关系，伙伴关系

参考例句：

• The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
• Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。

3 consultations   

n.磋商（会议）( consultation的名词复数 )；商讨会；协商会；查找

参考例句：

• Consultations can be arranged at other times by appointment. 磋商可以通过预约安排在其他时间。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Consultations are under way. 正在进行磋商。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

4 workload   

n.作业量，工作量

参考例句：

• An assistant one day a week would ease my workload.每周有一天配一个助手就会减轻我的工作负担。
• He's always grousing about the workload.他总是抱怨工作量大。

5 pharmacies   

药店

参考例句：

• Still, 32 percent of the pharmacies filled the prescriptions. 但仍然有32%的药剂师配发了这两张药方。 来自互联网
• Chinese herbal pharmacies, and traditional massage therapists in the Vancouver telephone book. 中药店，和传统的按摩师在温哥华的电话簿里。 来自互联网