Wes Streeting tells Brits to discuss how to fix NHS over Christmas dinner - as flu wave hits

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The Health Secretary has vowed to save the NHS after it “saved my life when I was diagnosed with kidney cancer”. Wes Streeting spent time in A&Es over the weekend to see how the NHS is coping as a tidal wave of flu hits. The Cabinet minister, who was diagnosed and later declared cancer free in 2021, said it left him with a “combination of pride and shame”. He praised the heroic staff working hard but at the same time said seeing elderly people waiting for sometimes 30 hours on a trolley in a