with the ioc president over the weekend and they had a nice discussion. an ioc statement gave few details of the conversation. peng shuai was accompanied by the chinese olympic committee chief of staff during the interview, raising further questions about whether she was able to speak freely. courtney bembridge, bbc news. there is still a long way to go on children s mental health, with only a third of those with a probable mental health disorder able to access treatment, according to the children s commissioner for england. dame rachel de souza said increased investment is making a difference to children who are struggling, but the coronavirus pandemic has made the challenge greater . anisa kadri reports. counting the cost of the covid pandemic. this report says more children are struggling with their mental health. up from one in nine to one in six, according to data. but the number in england referred to nhs mental health services by the likes of gps and teachers fell sharply at
lists could go, we are talking about the nhs in england specifically. this is one of the reasons there has been a delay in the plan to begin with and that s really the huge degree of uncertainty around what s going to happen to demand for services in the nhs. so many patients either missed appointments, operations, through the two years we have had with covid. quite where they are in the system, are they going to reappear, are they unready a waiting list? have they got better, worse, that means it s very difficult both for the nhs and outsiders to really understand quite how big those waiting lists could get. but certainly, if all of those patients were to return, then you are looking at a very large, millions more are arriving on waiting lists. equally, the other side, the nhs is running as fast as it can to try and take people off waiting lists and give them certainty about when they will be
a government preoccupied by weather borisjohnson a government preoccupied by weather boris johnson survives a government preoccupied by weather borisjohnson survives or not, preoccupied by bothered basic by whether they stick by boris johnson, it means the needs of the british people are not met. whether it is the people on the waiting list or the people on the waiting list or the social care system that needs reform or the cost of living crisis, where an average owner on around £30,000 is set to be £400 worse off because of the 10% increase in national insurance. these are the issues that we need a prime minister focused on, but instead he is focused on, but instead he is focused on, but instead he is focused on saving his own skin. what focused on saving his own skin. what would the labour focused on saving his own skin. what would the labour plan focused on saving his own skin. what would the labour plan b? inevitably, there has been a backlog because of covid. i there has
treated but also to try and get the sheer length of the waiting times and lists down and that goes back to the question about the nhs about its own capacity, ability to sort staff, that isn t clear at the moment. forgive me if i ve misunderstood you but i m trying to understand why patients who aren t in the system, he might not be in the system or not, we don t know why that would cause any further delay to getting under way with treatment for patients who are in the system? what patients who are in the system? what has happened patients who are in the system? wisgt has happened during patients who are in the system? wist has happened during covid is many of the patients who would have been seeing their gp or referred by their gp so we would have seen them on waiting lists, there were interruptions to their care, equally, hospitals stopped seeing people, they switch their resources into dealing with covid and to some extent also with vaccination programmes. so normally you would see
pre pandemic concerns about retention of staff in the nhs. once the nhs really starts to try to get to grips with this huge backlog what are your concerns about their ability to make real headway with those numbers of people waiting? if part of the delay there is about money i think that s a mistake. it s not really the money that is in question, it s exactly that issue of staff so before covid the nhs was struggling to stop waiting times going up, they d been drifting up for many years. that went up during the covid period but the key thing remains, has the nhs at the stafford needs to be able to treat people and treat them quickly, that is the million dollar question. treat them quickly, that is the million-dollar question. richard, thank you- our political correspondent chris mason told me earlier why the nhs backlog plans have been delayed. it was kiboshed by the treasury at the last minute with the document pretty much ready to go. the health secretary for england