others, i think that compliance, will that obedience, will that patients faced with having to go to work to earn your living, what will we went out? the work to earn your living, what will we went out? work to earn your living, what will we went out? the telegraph point that there will we went out? the telegraph point that there will be we went out? the telegraph point that there will be fresh we went out? the telegraph point that there will be fresh booster i that there will be fresh booster jabs likely for all of her 50s from the autumn, john, recognition that like winterflu and the autumn, john, recognition that like winter flu and other respiratory diseases, covid is here to stay in one form or other in the may be other variants that we have to wrangle with as well. and may be other variants that we have to wrangle with as well. to wrangle with as well. and this is talkin: to wrangle with as well. and this is talking about to wrangle with as well. and this is talking abou
a huge toll on health services around the world. here england s chief medical officer is warning that the national health service faces an exceptionally difficult winter . hospitals are dealing with a record number of people waiting for operations. and winter flu is expected to return. the uk government wants doctors to have more face to face appointments. but this chart shows the particular pressure uk and us medics are under. here you can see the number of doctors per 1000 people in 0ecd countries. austria is ahead. the us and the uk are below average. but we have rounded up two of them. i m joined now by dr sarahjarvis who s a gp and clinical director of patient access dot com and dr payal patel in ann arbor michigan. thank you forjoining us. i would like to start with doctorjarvis, what you make of this call for more face to face appointments? i what you make of this call for more face-to-face appointments? i think one of the problems
physically and mentally tired and we need to understand that everything that can be done to look after and keep those staff must be done. they need breaks, they need holidays, psychological support locally, and we do need extra recruitment. we also need the government to pay what is needed. it is a slap in the face of nhs staff to be offered a 3% rise when their salaries have fallen way behind what they were ten years ago. in terms of immediate action as we head into winterflu in terms of immediate action as we head into winter flu and with covid still out there, what could government do immediately to stem this crisis we are seeing with waiting times and the lack of care? it needs to look after its staff, thatis it needs to look after its staff, that is the prime issue. things will only get worse if it continues to treat the staff with the contempt that it has done in recent months and years. it is really vital the government and all the employers
been killed, just think about that for a moment, six of itsjournalists have been killed as they went about theirjob. as we heard, despite that, he, dmitry muratov, has consistently defended the right of his journalists to write independent, fact based pieces, whether they be critical of the current government of russia or not. in the uk, the nhs has launched its biggest campaign against winter flu, with more than a0 million people across the uk being offered a vaccine. health chiefs are worried about the prospect of flu and covid 19 circulating together. they fear people could be more vulnerable to catching flu this winter, because so few people caught it last year, as a result of the lockdowns and additional hygiene measures that were in place. our health correspondent naomi grimley reports. i ve got together some of the country s leading medics to answer your vaccine questions. this is the latest media advert to remind us that it s notjust
A warning has been given about the possible early onset of winter flu, which could reach its height at the end of this year. An earlier onset of winter fl.