A Delivery Firm tells the bbc it will give its workers sick pay if the government changes the law. A convincing victory forjohanna konta. Coming up on bbc news, the latest on a busy day for the brits on wimbledon sports day. So Farjohanna Konta is the only one through. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. The agonising legal battle over the future of the terminally ill baby charlie gard has taken a new turn in the last hour Great Ormond Street Hospital has applied for a fresh Court Hearing to assess new evidence about possible treatment for him. The courts had ruled that 11 month old charlie be allowed to die rather than receive experimental therapy as his parents desperately want. The hospitals move follows a letterfrom medical experts asking that the decision not to offer baby charlie the treatment be reviewed. Our medical correspondent fergus walsh reports. This little boys life and whether it continues has become the focus of international attention. Charlie gards paren
To the bbc news at one. Nearly half of hospitals in england declared a major alert in the first week of this year. Nhs figures released this morning reveal that 66 of the 152 Hospital Trusts raised the alarm, as large numbers of patients experienced Trolley Waits and delays in a e. Eight of the trusts declaring a major alert reported the highest level of alarm, meaning Patient Safety was at risk. Our Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes reports. Another busy day for the Health Service, where the pressure of winter is unrelenting. Earlier this week, leicester Royal Infirmary was one of more than 60 hospitals in england to declare a major alert as the strain on services grew. The latest data from nhs england exposes how the Health Service is struggling to cope. One in five patients admitted as an emergency last week experienced a delay of at least four hours for a bed. Nearly one in four patients waited over four hours to be seen in a e. In some place its reached nearly half. More than a
Conservation staff and volunteers are battling to save 100 that are still alive, in one of the areas worst Whale Standings in living memory. Good morning, its friday 10th february. Im rachel schofield. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. The Health Secretary, jeremy hunt, has conceded the Nhs In England is facing completely unacceptable problems. He said there was no excuse for some of the difficulties highlighted during the bbcs nhs week. A series of reports have revealed Lengthening Waits in a e and patients being left for hours on trolleys. In an exclusive interview with the bbc, mr hunt told our Health Editor hugh pym that the government has a plan, but it will take time to deliver. Nhs england figures this winter show the worst waiting time performance in a e units since records began more than a decade ago. Jeremy hunt paid tribute to the work of staff, but said the problems of high Patient Demand were not unique to the nhs, and all leading Health Systems were grappling with the same c