But with ever growing pressure on the health service, theres more and more demand for their services. Weve been speaking to some of the nhss longest serving nurses. And after forty years of serving and operating in at least five conflicts with the british army, the Lynx Helicopter has made its final flight. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The governments ordered a fast track investigation into what went wrong at the failed construction firm, carillion. The company which also runs services in schools, hospitals and prisons went into liquidation yesterday after running up huge debts. Concerns are growing for Small Businesses connected to the firm amid fears some could collapse. 0ne industry body estimates that 30,000 companies are owed money. The business secretary greg clark has been Meeting Union leaders tonight. The gmb trade union has warned that the clock is ticking for thousands of workers worried about possible redundancies. Heres our Business Editor simonjack. Just how many
Becomes, in the next few hours. Showers easing, some coming in and the wind becoming lighter and many areas seeing the afternoon sunshine. Despite that, with the wind, it still feels cold. This is the calm before the storm, i am afraid. A deep area of low pressure across the British Isles later this evening and overnight. Bringing widespread gales. But also perhaps more concerning greek, further snow. Rain, sleet and snow for Northern Ireland into the small hours and a focus for southern scotland and Northern England once again. The met office had issued an amber warning for the weather. Perhaps the worst of it is a way for the morning rush hour. This is six a m. , before many get up and about, still very difficult weather across the north east. Blizzard conditions potentially and drifting snow. Further south, a windy start and a fine start across the south east and east anglia. The south west of east anglia. The southfwestof east anglia. The southfwastof strong east anglia. The southf
Good morning. Its wednesday 17th january. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. More nurses left the nhs in england last year thanjoined. The statistics, given exclusively to the bbc, reveal that more than 33,000 gave up jobs with the service, thats 3000 more than signed up. The Royal College of nursing says more must be done to support younger nurses at the start of their careers. Heres our Health Correspondent, dominic hughes. She became a nurse to help people, excited at the prospect of making a difference but in the end, the job overwhelmed mary trevelyan. I would end up in tears during a shift because there wasjust so much pressure and stress. A never ending list of things to do, guilt over not having enough time to care for patients. Stress led to depression and mary has had to leave thejob she loved. I want to be a great nurse and i want to give my patients my best but i feel i cant do that at the moment because we are just too short staffed, too busy. Theres far too
Choice between the government borrowing, which is cheaper than the private sector can borrow, so the private sector can borrow, so the private sector can borrow, so the private sector has to manage the assets more effectively than the Public Sector to off set the higher financing costs. This report was written before the colla pse this report was written before the collapse of carillion. That is uppermost in everyones minds it remains the case with the pfi initiatives, if it goes wrong, the government must step in . You can ta ke government must step in . You can take a different view of carillion, that in some cases too much risk has been transferred to the private sector and it has not been able to cope. One of the big problems that comes in terms with carillion is that carillion bought a lot of its competitors. So a problem for the government in 2er78s of conventional procurement or pfi is you need healthy competition between the various parties that can build facilities for you. So