Nurses bore the brunt of the pandemic with low Staffing Levels. And the princess of wales returns to work following her Cancer Treatment earlier this year. Hello, im azadeh moshiri. Welcome back. Lets turn our attention now to the Covid Inquiry which is continuing today. Yesterday it heard from the former chief nurse, Dame Ruth may, who said that nurses bore the brunt of the pandemic with low Staffing Levels and difficulties accessing protective equipment. With me is our health reporterjim reed. The inquiry has been going on, this phase of it, for about a week. What have been the standout moments to you . This art of standout moments to you . This part of the standout moments to you . This part of the Inquiry Standout moments to you . Ti 3 part of the inquiry looks just at the impact on the nhs and the Health Service across the whole of the uk, and it started actually by speaking to those directly affected, so patients and Family Members of people who sadly lost their lives to covid. L
Finances were in a dire state. Hang on. There was this 22 Billion black hole. We spend 1200 Billion billion black hole. We spend i200 billion pounds every year in this 22 Billion so called black hole, a mere accounting device. In this whole debate, what the Labour Government are trying to do was to make the political point that the Conservative Party ran the country into the ground and therefore weve got to punish therefore weve got to punish the pensioners. It is absolute and complete rubbish. And what those we represent cant understand, these people who worked hard all their lives, have done their bit for the country, their total package is perhaps 13 or £14,000 a year. What they cant understand is that this so called saving of public money is actually going to go to Train Drivers who own £70,000 a year. Theyjust dont understand it. So for god sake, lets have a serious debate. Lets try to unite on this issue and lets not keep taking away benefits from people just above the Pension
Will get to our panel shortly, but first the latest bbc news. The Us State Department says it expects a Transitional Council in haiti to be appointed within the next 48 hours. Once established, it will nominate a new Prime Minister to succeed ariel henry, who quit on monday. Aid agencies say the situation in the capital, port au prince, is desperate, with the city under the control of armed gangs. The White House National security adviser has announced three hundred Million Dollars in aid for ukraine as a Stopgap Measure while a much larger package remains stalled in congress. The eus Foreign Policy chief has said starvation is being used as a weapon of war in gaza. Josep borrell described the lack of aid entering the territory as a manmade disaster. A Romanian Court has agreed to extradite the social Media Influencer andrew tate and his brother Tristan To Britain where theyre facing charges of sexual aggression. Theyre to be extradited after their trial in a separate case in romania.
Started yet but theres already been a change of manager. Julen lopetegui has left wolves just a matter of days before their opening game. Good afternoon. Police officers in Northern Ireland say theyre shocked and angry after a data breach that revealed Sensitive Information about them. Yesterday the Police Service of Northern Ireland published the names, roles and Work Locations of all its staff by mistake. Its blamed human error and apologised. But officers are now worried about their safety and fear dissident republican groups could use the information to target them. 0ur ireland correspondent chris page reports. Police officers everywhere deal with danger. But in this part of the uk, the risks are especially stark. Members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland take steps to protect their identities, and the media agree not to show theirfaces. So the publication of personal Details Online has caused distress. This has the potential to be a major security breach. Its a serious los
Doctors will leave the nhs to work abroad, in countries including australia and new zealand. Our Health Reporterjim reed has been looking into this. Weve been trying to answer that question, whether weve been seeing a large exodus, as is being feared, of nhs doctors going overseas. Lets begin by looking at the bigger picture. This graph is showing as the proportion of uk nhs doctors that arejoining and the proportion of uk nhs doctors that are joining and leaving the proportion of uk nhs doctors that arejoining and leaving each year. The numberjoining here in read has actually been rising as weve been recruiting more foreign doctors from overseas into the health service. The number in blue is the number leaving, and actually, it has remained pretty constant over time at about 15 . This is the number of doctors leaving for any reason, so that could be retiring, moving into private practice, it could be going abroad, and there has been some quite aggressive recruiting of nhs doctors by o