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
Carrilian apprentices some of whom ive met locally. Its not good enough to pass the buck to cibt so will the Prime Minister guarantee today that every one of those apprentices will be able to complete their training and will be paid . Hear, hear i can say to the honorable lady that i recognize that of course, this has been a difficult time for a number of people and concerned about their jobs and about Public Services and about their pensions. I want, first of all, if i may, mr. Speaker, to provide reassurance to all employees who are working on Public Services for carrilian that they should continue to turn up to work confident in the knowledge that theyll be work for the work that theyre providing, but of course, the government is not running carrilian. The government is a customer of carrilian and our focus our focus has been on ensuring that we are providing the Public Services that they are continuing to be provided uninterrupted to reassure workers on those Public Services that t
In london and manchester. This is a momentous week in the history of the uk, talks are under way to take britain out of the European Union, and this queens speech is therefore expected to set out a legislative programme not for one year but the two years to come. Earlier this morning, this is what happened in Downing Street when the Prime Minister left for parliament. First and last queens speech, Prime Minister . That was mrs may with her husband philip on the way to the houses of parliament. She has had to spend considerable time trying to negotiate a deal with the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland in recent days to support this queens speech, and as i speak, there is still no deal in place. But that was part of the reason of course for the delay in arranging this State Opening today. Labours Jeremy Corbyn will also be in parliament today, facing the Prime Minister once again across the dispatch box. That is when the debate gets under way, and he will be looking to amend