me and the big c cancer podcast will be published today. and images captured by drone cameras to help monitor deer populations in england. good morning and welcome. the government is set to announce details of a £1 billion investment to tackle emergency care delays in the nhs. the two year blueprint will mean a roll out of extra hospital beds and ambulances in england. the government is expected to pledge 5,000 new beds, increasing capacity by 5%. there will also be a 10% boost in ambulances, with 800 new vehicles on the road. prime minister rishi sunak calls it an ambitious and credible plan, but warns the plan to cut delays will take time . meanwhile, labour have accused the government of watering down key standards and say the plans aren t enough to tackle the pressures the nhs is facing. 0ur health correspondent jim reed has more. ambulance staff are waiting with their patients to come to the emergency department cubicles, which are currently full. record waits in a&e
compensation scheme for long covid and a panorama investigation found some are starting to lose theirjobs while others are dropping onto harpo. catherine burnsjoins us. we are hearing every day about staff shortages and this is another issue. i ve been working with the panorama team on this for months and i ve been looking at this and it so hard, staff with long covid and it s hard to get an assessment on that so we estimate around 90,000 health care workers across the uk are living with long covid and outs of the extremes, it could be people managing to work pretty well but i really tired, people doing reduced hours, phased return or people who have not been to work for months or even years. we tried to get that number, it s typical, nhs does not record how many staff are off with
uncertainty. we know this variant spreads more quickly, but we re not sure exactly how fast. scientists think it could make people more likely to need a hospital stay, but they re not certain. we likely to need a hospital stay, but they re not certain. likely to need a hospital stay, but they re not certain. we know at the moment that they re not certain. we know at the moment that the they re not certain. we know at the moment that the delta they re not certain. we know at the moment that the delta variant, - they re not certain. we know at the moment that the delta variant, the i moment that the delta variant, the indian variant, is doubling across the country about every nine days, with some variability from place to place, but we haven t fully seen the effect of what happened from step three, 17th may, the relaxation of restrictions, coming through into that data, so we expect that to accelerate even more. ministers will u date accelerate even more. ministers will update peo