news of another cyber this time affecting several large london hospitals, being described as a major cyber attack. services including the delivery of blood transfusions have been affected, according to memos are sent to nhs staff. we know that the king s couege staff. we know that the king s college hospital and guy s and saint thomases are amongst the hospital is experiencing problems, with some operations reported to have been cancelled or redirected. we will talk to one of a health correspondence about this shortly. more on that story, the breaking story coming up for you. let s continue with the general election campaign. the big news today is rishi sunak and sir keir starmer will go head to head in their first televised debate of the general election campaign tonight. the hour long programme on itv will be filmed in front of a live studio audience. it comes as the conservatives have promised to introduce a yearly cap on the number of migrant visas, while labour has accus
at this stage whether any ransom is being sought over this. ? we do not know anything being sought over this. ? we do not know anything about being sought over this. ? we do not know anything about who being sought over this. ? we do not know anything about who is - being sought over this. ? we do not know anything about who is behind l know anything about who is behind the attack, we do not know much about the attack at all. we know the pathology system is being impacted, but it is really at the heart of all medicine, particularly for patients going into a&e. the test results been done urgently, that can t happen. we don t know any more details, it is an ongoing critical incident and it will be all hands on deck across all the hospitals in london, particularly those trying to move patients now. london, particularly those trying to move patients now. thank you very much for that. move patients now. thank you very much for that, our move patients now. thank you very much for
for those who ve just arrived and get others safely home. it can be an uphill struggle they have to keep the system moving. nigel is a senior paramedic. at the front door of the hospital, ambulance crews wait to hand over patients. at the moment, in a&e we re very full. there is nowhere to move the patients, so the crews at the moment are we have one crew that s going to take three patients. if another crew comes in, they ll take that patient as well. that will release three crews. nigel has been transferred to work in the hospital. each day he liaises with doctors and nurses to find spaces in a&e, move patients out of corridor, and get ambulance crews back on the road. we have got eight in the department, we have had nine seen in the last hour and 108 seen so far today. it s a complex numbers game. at the midday meeting, julie reviews with colleagues what the latest a&e pressures mean for the rest of the hospital. over in surgery, we have one male bed available, i with three definit
delays with social care. 0ur health editor hugh pym reports from milton keynes. these are some of the nhs s jugglers every day trying to free up beds for those who ve just arrived and get others safely home. it can be an uphill struggle they have to keep the system moving. nigel is a senior paramedic. at the front door of the hospital, ambulance crews wait to hand over patients. at the moment, in a&e, we re very full. there is nowhere to move the patients, so the crews at the moment. we have one crew that s going to take three patients. if another crew comes in, they ll take that patient as well. that will release three crews. nigel has been transferred to work in the hospital. each day he liaises with doctors and nurses to find spaces in a&e, move patients out of corridor, and get ambulance crews back on the road. we have got eight in the department, we have had nine seen in the last
we were really at the limit? we were scrambling to decide are we going to have to start deciding who gets care, not care, move patients to other parts of the state or other nearby states. and so we did sit and talk some about the protocol and how that works. there are plans in place to try to make the best decisions with ethical discernments and it just breaks your heart to have to have those conversations, especially when you know that the majority of these people, 90% of the sick people coming in are not vaccinated and there is a treatment out there with vaccine that will lessen the severity of the surge to our whole community. yeah. look, these are it s unnecessary, right? over time i wonder have you seen a different have you seen a different profile when it comes to the patients that you have coming in? well, yeah. i think in the first wave of covid it was we didn t have a