Brexit is the real end of the british empire. Good morning. Its thursday 14th of november. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Im annita mcveigh. Accident and Emergency Departments in england have recorded their worst performance since current records began in 2004. Other targets covering cancer and routine hospital treatment are also being missed. Lets take a look at some of those targets and the latest statistics published this morning. The government target is a maximum four hour wait for those in a e. But todays figures show only 83. 6 of patients, thats one in six patients, were treated or assessed in a e within four hours in october. Thats a sharp drop on september and down from 89. 1 in october last year. The number of patients waiting for routine operations in england was 4. 42 million in september the highest ever. The nhs target is to have all patients start routine treatment within 18 weeks. But todays figures show more than 672,000 people were waiting more than 18 weeks the highe
You just dont go there. Ben stokes speaking to dan walker there. Time for a look at the weather. Heres helen willetts. Some of us woke up to snowfall and some of it is still there but mostly now over the hills but the rain is coming down thick and fast. In amongst all that rain and snow, weve got some beautiful sunshine. This was edinburgh earlier. Visible on the satellite picture here but this swathe of cloud unfortunately brings rain to those areas already severely flooded and theres more to come. There are met Office Yellow warnings for rain in this part of the world and there are numerous flood warnings still. In fact, the numbers are now rising across the midlands, particularly warwickshire and oxfordshire to the could be some nasty conditions if you are travelling. The river levels are rising quickly and flowing fast. For the next few hours you can see that rain with as across the midlands, very little letup towards the southwest and northeast, pivoting further north westwards as
Review this count and ensure that its not stale. So eventually through the process of usdoj recommendations implementation, we may have discovered actually we have to change a policy to do this one thing, even though the recommendation doesnt necessarily call out that theres specifically a policy change that needs to happen. But there may actually be a resulting change that needs to happen from the work of starting the implementation of a particular recommendation. So we are going to take this back and do a more thorough dig on those kinds of items and make sure that we have a very clear picture of which recommendations are impacted by policy. Thank you. Vice president taylor. Thank you. This last page is good and theres more questions than you anticipated. Yes. When you come back and do that deeper dive can you report on not only what the correct numbers are but of the correct numbers where are we in terms of our implementation of changes . Yes okay. Yes, chief . I would just like to
We work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. What i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. They ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. Checking in, you guys. Wellness check. We walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. You never know. Somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. You never know if they are alive. We let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they dont want to call the police on, they dont have to call the police. They can call us. We can direct them to the services they might need. We do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. There are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. It is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. When we se
That the ombudsmen there are talking to each other more and trying to bring together what we are experiencing the problems with communication, especially the reticence of residents to speak out when they have a concern or a complaint because theyre very dependant, of course, on the medical staff there. Did that answer your question . Yeah, it did. Thank you so much for all the work and you and the program does. Thank you so much. Are electrthere any other me of the public that wish to testify . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. President yee. I would like to thank our presenters for presenting today. I know theres a lot of work to be done and certainly if im a little intense with the questions, i care about this issue. I hope some of the suggestions i made weve heard and that could actually strengthen some of your efforts, because all of us want to make sure that our patients up there are being well taken care of. I guess i have to go visit the hospital more often. I only go up th