News. Record numbers of patients spent more than for hours in accident and emergency in england in january according to figures given to the bbc. January seems to be the worst performing month in 13 years. The figures also suggest Record Numbers of people waited more than 12 hours for a hospital bed once being seen. The Doctors Union has accused the government of failing to grasp the seriousness of the situation, as we report. Scenes like this on bbc news this week have highlighted the immense strain being felt across the nhs. Here at royal blackburn hospital, rated as good by inspectors, some patients waited up to 13 hours in a e. Some had to sit on the floor. Official figures have confirmed that it was the worst decemberfor waits since modern records began. Today at Hillingdon Hospital in west london, things were a bit calmer, but managers confirm that theyve been stretched to the limits. Its been fairly relentless in terms of november and december through january. Im confident that
The archbishop of canterbury says hes saddened and shocked. A vigorous welcome in the oval office for new us attorney generaljeff sessions the most controversial of president tumps nominees. President , please take your seat. Chaotic scenes in the south african parliament, as president zuma is accused of promoting rampant corruption. And we talk to the british sprinter who competed in rio whos now hoping to rebuild his Running Career after a Road Accident. And coming up in sportsday on bbc news find out if the leeds rhinos could hold onto the lead, and beat st helens in the first match of the new superleague season. Good evening. Record numbers of patients spent more than four hours in accident and emergency units in england in january, according to figures leaked to the bbc. During a difficult winter for the nhs, january seems to be the worst performing month in the past 13 years. The figures also suggest Record Numbers of people waited longer than 12 hours for a hospital bed, once th
News. Record numbers of patients spent more than for hours in accident and emergency in england in january according to figures given to the bbc. January seems to be the worst performing month in 13 years. The figures also suggest Record Numbers of people waited more than 12 hours for a hospital bed once being seen. The Doctors Union has accused the government of failing to grasp the seriousness of the situation, as we report. Scenes like this on bbc news this week have highlighted the immense strain being felt across the nhs. Here at royal blackburn hospital, rated as good by inspectors, some patients waited up to 13 hours in a e. Some had to sit on the floor. Official figures have confirmed that it was the worst decemberfor waits since modern records began. Today at Hillingdon Hospital in west london, things were a bit calmer, but managers confirm that theyve been stretched to the limits. Its been fairly relentless in terms of november and december through january. Im confident that
nationally, 92.6%. manycountries around the world, developed countries, have their vaccination rates in the close to 100% range. so this is the concern. counties around the country where they have low vaccination rates have to take particular sort of screening and care to see if this virus is circulating in those communities. jenna salk is in heaven looking down on us saying what are you doing? i handed this one to you. i cured it. turning to monkeypox, another disease circulating in the united states, now there s debate about whether or not to label it specifically a sexually transmitted disease. with most cases linked to sexual activity. what s the dispute here? would calling it a sexually transmitted disease be misleading? i think part of this is just the language around this. i think what is clear is that people can contract this without sexual activity. it could even live on bed sheets and things like that, and
energy. how is that working? well, france has an esg environmental score of 92.6. why? ten years ago france pledged to derive a quarter of its energy from renewables. in 2018 these policies led to riots. remember the so-called yellow jackets? people didn t like it. if you cared about democracy would listen to them but no one in charge actually does so they don t, things have gotten worse since then. this past june the heads of three french energy companies called on the public to immediately reduce consumption of fuel, oil, electricity, and gas amid shortages and soarg prices. oh, stop civilization. it doesn t work. that same month of france s president publicly begged joe biden to start producing more oil because the saudis cannot make enough to supply europe. watch.