Kate Garraway has opened up on her experience of finding a hospital bed for her Covid-stricken husband Derek Draper.
The Good Morning Britain presenter suggested that the Government should enable private hospitals to offer NHS patients beds for free when required.
Kate, 55, said: “I know that from personal experience when Derek was first sick there were no spaces on any wards for him to go for the treatment he needed.
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“So at that time in effect, everything was nationalised,” adding: “All private hospitals had to take NHS patients at the cost of an NHS patient and he went in.
“But after a while the private hospitals said they couldn’t make it pay and therefore it came to an end – it reverted back.”
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The mum-of-two continued: “I would have said that the argument against that is that people with private insurance wouldn’t be able to jump queues.”
Last December, Kate opened up to Lorraine Kelly about why she no longer updates viewers on her husband’s condition.
She said: “The thing I’ve been really aware of is people saying, ‘Oh she’s talking about that again,’” adding: “I don’t want to go on about it because what I’ve learnt is you don’t really know what it feels like until you’re there.
“I now get contacted every day, which makes me feel less isolated, by thousands of people saying, ‘Please say more because we are struggling’.”
Her comments elicited a response from shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry that Labour would “double the size” of the NHS workforce.
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Emily explained that Labour had a plan to “double the size of the workforce,” adding: “The people who are exhausted in the National Health Service need to know that numbers are going to increase, that they’re not going to be expected to work these shifts with so few people any more.
“If we’re giving the opportunity to serve the public we will get rid of non-dom, this thing about how you can live here but don’t live here all this nonsense and you don’t pay tax.
“The very richest have got this loophole so we would close that loophole and we would use that money to pay for the huge increase in the number of people being trained to work in the National Health Service.”
Garraway continued to ask Emily whether the NHS was being privatised but the shadow attorney general reiterated that her priority was the NHS.
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