of course, we want to get to a point where we ve got that dispute agreed and there s an outcome, so that we can get back to delivering the services that we know we need to. we have got the plans in place to make sure that the hospital is safe and we continue to deliver those things. but the sooner we can get over the other side of this disruption and end this dispute, the better. notjust for us as a hospital, but for our patients. the most recent strikes have seen fewer ambulance call outs and relatively quiet a&e departments. across merseyside, as in all those areas affected by strike action, it s hoped the public will once again not overburden an already stretched nhs. dominic hughes, bbc news, merseyside. professor sir stephen powis is the national medical director of nhs england. this is his advice to patients this week. this is the first time this winter we have industrial action being
so that we can get back to delivering the services that we know we need to. we have got the plans in place to make sure that the hospital is safe and we continue to deliver those things. but the sooner we can get over the other side of this disruption and end this dispute, the better. notjust for us as a hospital, but for our patients. the most recent strikes have seen fewer ambulance call outs and relatively quiet a&e departments. across merseyside, as in all those areas affected by strike action, it s hoped the public will once again not overburdened and already stretched nhs. dominic hughes, bbc news, merseyside. the headteacher of one of the uk s leading private schools, epsom college in surrey, has been found dead, alongside the bodies of her husband and seven year old daughter. an investigation has begun into how emma pattison and herfamily died, but police believe it was an isolated incident, with no one else involved. sean dilley has this report.
to deliver those things. but the sooner we can get over the other side of this disruption and end this dispute, the better. notjust for us as a hospital, but for our patients. the most recent strikes have seen fewer ambulance call outs and relatively quiet a&e departments. across merseyside, as in all those areas affected by strike action, it s hoped the public will once again not overburden an already stretched nhs. dominic hughes, bbc news, merseyside. professor sir stephen powis is the national medical director of nhs england. this is his advice to patients this week. this is the first time this winter that we have industrial action being taken by ambulance staff and by nurses on the same day, so there is no doubt it is going to be challenging, but our message is the same. for life threatening illnesses, do continue to call 999, ambulances will respond. for non life threatening conditions, then go to 111 online first. if you have an appointment,
hospital, but for our patients. previous strike days have seen fewer ambulance call outs and relatively quiet a&e departments. across merseyside, as in all those areas affected by strike action, the public are being urged to think hard before calling an ambulance unless it is a life threatening emergency. the former uk prime minister, liz truss, has blamed what she s called a powerful economic establishment and a lack of support from the conservative party for her downfall. liz truss was forced to resign as prime minster after barely seven weeks, after her package of tax cuts caused panic in the markets and the pound dropped to a record low. earlier, the former conservative cabinet minister david gauke gave us his view. i think it s a pretty unconvincing case, in all honesty. the fact is that the government pursued a fiscal strategy, a tax and spend policy that did not have credibility.
making sure people do not develop immunity to antibiotics and they want to make sure that remains the case and that s what they would say if they were here. but also things like blood dummett blood pressure checks, that s something we could do in pharmacies. if we could get that right, there are so much undiagnosed high blood pressure which then leads to people needing ambulance call outs, for all the paramedics here, if we have pharmacies doing more blood pressure checks, for example, getting people to treatment they need earlier, stopping the ambulance call out. so there are lots of opportunity there and that s one of the things we are in the process of looking at. in the same way today we have published a pretty comprehensive plan on tackling urgent and emergency care, we are going to do something very similar for primary care as well. last year we published a plan on electives which is in process and working, so we are getting the backlog down on elective surgery and today the focu