teapot technician judy. she can feel the pressure in a&e as she does her round. i ve not long been on shift, but walking in and you see people on beds, you know people have been in a long time and you know it s going to be a full on day. still busy, as always, up here. even with the strike on, the hospital hairdresser lynn has her hands full. right, good morning, everybody. welcome to the last day of the doctors strike. i we joined the gold command group of senior managers. they were juggling patient numbers. during this meeting, they raised the alert level to reflect the significant pressure they were under. icu were pretty much full again with no step down. paeds is fine, maternity s in escalation. we are short ofjuniors, so we ve got at least two or three ward areas with no junior doctor on it at the moment. nearly 100 patients are being treated in overflow areas. consultants like vicky and shindu are working extra hours in the emergency department during the strike. they
with temperatures beating the previous high recorded in 2016. it comes as the met office issues a fresh warning for the uk saying forecasts for this year could see temperatures breach critical levels in the battle against global warming. our climate editorjustin rowlatt is here with all the details. the world experienced some really extraordinary temperatures last year. the average temperature for the year was 1.48 degrees celsius above pre industrial levels. it beat the previous hottest year, 2016, by a margin of 0.17 celsius, that s a huge amount for a global average, say climate scientists. just look at this. the grey lines show temperatures each year since 1940. the red line shows 2023. you can see it started off pretty unexceptional in terms of global temperatures. but from july onwards, the world began a remarkable and almost unbroken streak of daily air temperature records. 210 days set a new daily global temperature record, according to bbc analysis of the data from t
report from milton keynes. my unofficial title is teapot technician. another hospital trolley this one with self styled teapot technician judy. she can feel the pressure in a&e as she does her round. i ve not long been on shift, but walking in and you see people on beds, you know people have been in a long time and you know it s going to be a full on day. still busy, as always, up here. even with the strike on, the hospital hairdresser lynn has her hands full. right, good morning, everybody. welcome to the last day of the doctors strike. i we joined the gold command group of senior managers. they were juggling patient numbers. during this meeting, they raised the alert level to reflect the significant pressure they were under. icu were pretty much full again with no step down. paeds is fine, maternity s in escalation. we are short ofjuniors, so we ve got at least two or three ward areas with no junior doctor on it at the moment. nearly 100 patients are being treated in ove
Continous period of industrial action in nhs history, has come to an end. the doctors union the british medical association wants a 35% pay rise to make up for below inflation increases in previous years. but the health secretary, victoria atkins, says she s only prepared for more negotiations if the bma has reasonable expectations . emergency repairs to social housing will have to be carried out within 24 hours under new government proposals. it s part of a pledge to introduce awaab s law, named after awaab ishak, a baby who died after being exposed to mould in his family 5 social housing flat in rochdale. here s rowan bridge. a little boy who was suffocating in his own home. two year old awaab ishak died following exposure to mould and damp. these are photos from the family flat in rochdale. where they washed, where they ate, they were surrounded by mould. the family had complained to their housing provider for years, but nothing was done. rochdale boroughwide housing,