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World in Action

Season 18 · Episode 46

The Health Service

0.0August 9, 1982

The health service today began 5 days' intensive strike action, leaving only emergency services running, in pursuit of a 12% pay rise. This is the most severe disruption the NHS has ever seen, and a massive backlog results. Studio discussion.

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Episodes

Episode 1The Discarded People
Episode 2The Disarmament Man
Episode 3Two Out of 30,000
Episode 4Living with Poverty
Episode 5Dust to Dust
Episode 6The Preacher and the Peacemaker
Episode 7Bleeding to Death
Episode 8Families at War
Episode 9A Statistic - A Reminder
Episode 10Taste of Power
Episode 11The Price of Britain's Bomb
Episode 12Divided We Stand
Episode 13Deals on Wheels
Episode 14Private Darkin's Army
Episode 15The Tobacco War
Episode 16A Bankrupt Game
Episode 17The I.R.A.'s Arms Cash
Episode 18Caution to the Wind
Episode 19The Worried Men
Episode 20In the Name of the Lord
Episode 21Home Help
Episode 22Irish Lessons
Episode 23Britain on the Brink
Episode 24Special: The Falklands 100 - Part 1
Episode 25Special: The Falklands 100 - Part 2
Episode 26Special: The Falklands 100 - Part 3
Episode 27Special: The Falklands 100 - Part 4
Episode 28The Spoils of Peace
Episode 29The Falklands and the British Task Force
Episode 32The Real British Disease
Episode 33Falklands 100
Episode 34Weekend at War
Episode 37Paying for the War
Episode 38Home or Husband
Episode 39Britain's Other Islanders
Episode 40Operation Quicksilver
Episode 41A Small Town Tragedy
Episode 42Operation Peace for Galilee
Episode 43Prisoner's Medicine
Episode 44Learning to Lose
Episode 45Cleaning Up the Yard
Episode 46The Health Service
Episode 47Streets Apart
Episode 48Israel's Other War