saying an improved pay offer could be enough to stop strikes, scheduled for monday and tuesday. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for how to heal the nhs. we ve been almost 12 hours in an ambulance. there were people sitting on the floor, people on trolleys everywhere. it was just horrendous. record waits in a&e, trolleys stacked up along busy corridors, ambulance crews forced to queue outside for hours with their patients. it does get tricky when you see a time come on the call and it s hours ago and you are thinking, oh, gosh, what are you going to turn up to? and they are in a bad state. the health service in every corner of the uk has been battling through its worst winter in a generation. we are running two and three times above our capacity continually, and often more than that. we ve had crises in the nhs before, but doctors say nothing like this. this is undoubtedly a crisis, and it s undoubtedly a national scandal. we simply haven t seen the action that was nec
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is the backbone of the nhs. and that means patients can be treated at home. by that, you mean gps? not only gps, the sort of community care that may be provided by district nurses or other community based services, and that can help patients be cared for in their own home and can help keep them out of hospital. and then finally, we need to see an investment in the capacity of hospitals, which means the beds and the staff, so that those hospitals aren t full up, so that our emergency departments don t get full up, which is what is holding up all the ambulances and stopping them getting out to patients. so the three key things are social care, primary care, and hospital bed capacity. and wrapped around all of that is the nhs workforce, because the nhs is all about workforce, and without a workforce, we haven t got an nhs. the future of that workforce is one of the major problems keeping health bosses awake at night.
in primary care, because that is the backbone of the nhs. and that means patients can be treated at home. by that, you mean gps? not only gps, the sort of community care that may be provided by district nurses or other community based services, and that can help patients be cared for in their own home and can help keep them out of hospital. and then finally, we need to see an investment in the capacity of hospitals, which means the beds and the staff, so that those hospitals aren t full up, so that our emergency departments don t get full up, which is what is holding up all the ambulances and stopping them getting out to patients. so the three key things are social care, primary care, and hospital bed capacity. and wrapped around all of that is the nhs workforce, because the nhs is all about workforce, and without a workforce, we haven t got an nhs. the future of that workforce is one of the major problems keeping health bosses awake at night. the nhs is one of the biggest