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The NHS is 70 years old, worn out and in need of treatment - what are you prepared to do to help it?

The NHS is 70 years old, worn out and in need of treatment - what are you prepared to do to help it?

This morning we are asking you the public a very big question - what are you personally prepared to do to make a better health service? Are you willing to pay more and are you prepared to make big changes to your way of life, accept responsibility for looking after your own health? The NHS is 70 years old this year - by all accounts it is often creaking at the seams - not a week seems to go by without another crisis and the costs are forever rising. For example, the NHS here eats up about half the Stormont budget, if that increases it has to come from somewhere else. Do we want that to come from education, infrastructure, or any other department with all the negative impact that would have in those areas or are we, everyone of us, prepared to pay more to make the NHS fit - not just for now but for the future? Or could we, by changing how we live, save the NHS a fortune? Joining Vinny in the studio this morning is former Health and Social Care Board boss John Compton, Professor Deirdre Heenan from Ulster University's Health & Wellbeing Research Centre and on the line lecturer in Social Policy Goretti Horgan.

Also on the programme, only a "phantom government" would want to bring in a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic after Brexit, so says Jacob Rees-Mogg. The high profile Brexiteer told 成人快手's The View that he has no need to come to the border region to understand how Brexit will affect the people who live there. Vinny spoke to TUV MLA Jim Allister and SDLP MLA Claire Hanna.

And, after 40 odd years in the business - Sir Bob Geldof tells Vinny he still has a lot to sing about.

All that and more on the biggest show in the country.

1 hour, 27 minutes

NHS AT 70

NHS AT 70

NEUROLOGY RECALL

NEUROLOGY RECALL

SCHOOL PLACES

SCHOOL PLACES

JACOB REES-MOGG

JACOB REES-MOGG

SIR BOB GELDOF

SIR BOB GELDOF

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