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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among the worst hit: ididn t i didn t really have much of a choice so i am. iam. thejohn lewis partnership has warned of further store closures after it made a loss of more than 500 million pounds good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. prince william has insisted the royal family is not racist, in his first comments since the duke and duchess of sussex told us television that a member of the family had questioned what colour their child s skin would be. william also revealed he hasn t spoken to his brother since harry and meghan gave the interview to oprah winfrey, but said he would do. the duke and duchess of cambridge were visiting a school in east london when they were asked by a reporter about the controversy. have you spoken to your brother since the interview? no, i haven t spoken to him yet, but i will do. and can you just let me know, is the royalfamily a racist family, sir? no, we are very much not a racist family. our royal correpsondent sarah campbelljoins me no
that are not accepting the independent pay review process and not accepting those pay recommendations. we are going to talk now to dame anne marie rafferty, who is a professor of nursing policy at king s college london, and an ex president of the nurses union, the royal college of nursing. can i begin by asking, why does the uk have fewer doctors, fewer nurses than other european countries? what s the reason behind it? well, it certainly is something that is long standing, it s not something that has just occurred overnight. we have not been investing enough in doctors and nurses over the last at least 20 years. we did research in the early 2000s, which did direct comparisons to 12 european countries, and from that we demonstrated we were bumping along the bottom quartile, notjust in terms of overall numbers, but in terms of the quality of the skill mix and impact on the nurses psychological welfare, so burn out rates as well as intention to leave.
recommendations in full. it is the trade unions that are not accepting the independent pay review process and not accepting those pay recommendations. we are going to talk now to dame anne marie rafferty, who is a professor of nursing policy at king s college london, and an ex president of the nurses union, the royal college of nursing. can i begin by asking, why does the uk have fewer doctors, fewer nurses than other european countries? what s the reason behind it? well, it certainly is something that is long standing, it s not something that has just occurred overnight. we have not been investing enough in doctors and nurses over the last at least 20 years. we did research in the early 2000s, which did direct comparisons to 12 european countries, and from that we demonstrated we were bumping along the bottom quartile, notjust in terms of overall numbers, but in terms of the quality