to the next morning. she has nothing but praise for the nhs staff involved but describes the situation as chaotic. it s really opened my eyes to the pressures that they are under and how overwhelmed they are, because i ve heard loads of stories, people always talk about these things and you don t really believe it or you think it s only in the big hospitals. but this is happening everywhere. new figures show the pressure facing hospitals in england. last week a fit of ambulances had to queue for at least 30 minutes before discharging their patients. the number of people who then had to wait to be moved on to a hospital ward has hit a record high. last month, 120,000 patients were held in a&e for four hours before the transfer with more than 16,000 waiting for more than 12 hours. these figures represent tremendous pressures throughout the whole system, from primary care and ambulance services to the emergency department patients, to our general wards and to patients then being discharge
well, ukraine and russia produce almost a third of the world s wheat, and that hit a record high over the weekend. and while we make much of our own here, when prices go up elsewhere it has a massive impact. the thing about wheat, as a commodity, the british price is influenced by the global price. so if global wheat futures are increased in price, then british wheat prices go up almost directly. it s now expected to go up potentially another 10%, 15%, even 30%. so this is a big pressure. and at the same time, if you just take bread, which is this example you know, you think about the cost of the bakeries in terms of gas, we all know gas prices have been going up and then, of course, there s the daily delivery. so the cost of delivering bread on a daily basis the so called morning goods that we receive they are hugely expensive to fulfil. so it s not direct, but it
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onto their customers, and ultimately that means us. ben king, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news. a damning report from mps who call the government s early handling of the pandemic one of the worst public health failure in uk history, costing thousands of lives. health failure in uk history, the report criticised the chaotic system of test and trace, and moving infected patients into care homes. families of the victims say people died unnecessarily. the prime minister is expected to give the go ahead to financial support to firms struggling with the soaring costs of energy. there are more signs the jobs market is recovering in the wake of the pandemic. the number ofjob vacancies in the uk has hit a record high of 1.1 million, the most since records began 20 years ago. the figures from the office for national statistics cover the three months to september. but there are some concerns that if companies offer pay rises as they compete to attract more workers, it could lead to inflation
the government s early handling of the government s early handling of the pandemic one of the worst public health failure in uk history, costing thousands of lives. the report criticised the chaotic system and of test and trace, and moving infected patients into care homes. families of the victims say people died unnecessarily. the prime minister is expected to give the go ahead to financial support to firms struggling with the soaring costs of energy. there are more signs the jobs market is recovering in the wake of the pandemic. market is recovering the number ofjob vacancies in the uk has hit a record high of 1.1 million, the most since records began 20 years ago. the figures from the office for national statistics cover the three months to september. but there are some concerns that if companies offer pay rises as they compete to attract more workers, it could lead to inflation and higher interest rates. our economics corresponent andy verity reports. in this post pandemic world, i