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Its 5 oclock. Our main story is that 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 theyd been seen in a e. The bma said the Prime Minister could no longer bury her head in the sand over increasing pressure in the nhs. And it accused the government of failing to grasp the seriousness of the situation. Our Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes reports. For months now, accident and Emergency Departments across england have been struggling. Last week, the bbc was given exclusive access to the royal blackburn hospital, where the pressure on a e was plain to see. We need beds and staff. Its just like banging your head you need a bed. Definitely. Its distressing. Its really distressing
feed into that court case as well. so yeah. it s an interesting one. britain isn t quite as hollywood. we, you know, they don t understand all the glitz and the gla glamour, and even those promotions have got people, you know, perplexed. we re just not used to that. so it s going to be an interesting one. i just there s a guy, a fantastic guy called charles who s written a portrait of the queen, and he really does have the royals ear. he s friends with prince charles. he knew the queen really well, and he said apparently one thing prince andrew said to the queen after harry and meghan sat down with oprah is, oh, dear. that s not good, is it? the queen said, didn t fergie do something wrrather the same wit
and talk to people, they think goodness me, haven t the prices got really expensive? people think that when they are filling up their cars at the pumps, and i think people think there is a general sense that britain isn t working any more. you can t get a doctor appointment, you deftly can t get a dentist appointment where i live. and i think thisjust makes appointment where i live. and i think this just makes it even worse. we are now in a situation where the pound is at its lowest level against the dollar in my entire lifetime, and that means it is going to get more expensive, too. the previous best you had on was exhaling how that was going to make it even more expensive because oil and gas tends to be priced in dollars, so when we are importing it, that s going to make it more expensive. and that is not the way to solve the cost of living crisis. not the way to solve the cost of living crisis- not the way to solve the cost of living crisis. and what about the whole taxation livi