being diagnosed with terminal cancer, but he says he will resist it for as long as he can. good afternoon. the public inquiry into the post office it scandal has been hearing from the investigator who s work led to criminal prosecutions of some sub postmasters and postmistresses. yesterday, the government announced plans for a new law to exonerate and compensate hundreds of post office staff wrongly accused because of the faulty horizon it system. well, this morning, this man post office investigator stephen bradshaw told the public inquiry he hadn t known there was anything wrong with the horizon system. and he denied a claim that he and other investigators behaved like mafia gangsters using threats and lies to collect their bounty. ben boulos reports. it s a big day forjanet skinner, a former sub postmistress wrongly convicted and jailed for theft in 2007 but later cleared. it convicted and jailed for theft in 2007 but later cleared.- 2007 but later cleared. it has impa
Instead putting patients at risk. one such target is for cancer treatment to begin. it s meant to be a maximum of 62 days, roughly two months, but ian binn s waited four months. by the time he started chemotherapy, his stage i cancer had become stage iv. he told me the wait for treatment was easily the worst time in his life. i d wake up every morning wondering if i had a future, wondering that every day the cancer would be advancing within me. strangely enough, when it got to about three and a half months, i became almost resolved in thinking, this is too late, nothing good is going to happen to you now, which was the case, the scan had shown it had spread. bbc analysis has found the vast majority of the key nhs targets have been missed for seven years or more. it looked at maximum waits for cancer treatment to begin last hit in england in 2015
Of course it causes moments of reflection because you look at it and go, that s completely wrong, because somebody s told me to put a statement through like that. most key nhs targets have been missed for at least seven years in hospitals across the uk. claims at the international court ofjustice in the hague that israel s military offensive in gaza amounts to genocide. i, ross. take thee, emily. take thee, rachel. and up for sale the script from this famous episode of the tv sitcom friends, which was rescued from a rubbish bin in london. coming up on bbc news the former england boss sven goran eriksson says he has a year to live after
Drama highlights, hash says what remains is the search for properjustice and ultimately, the truth. john maguire, bbc news, berkshire. and you can see further coverage of the post office inquiry on the bbc news channel and online at bbc.co.uk/news the nhs has missed almost all of its key waiting list targets for at least seven years, according to analysis seen by the bbc. the targets are for waits across the uk in a&e, cancer care and for planned hospital care. all four uk nations say plans are in place to improve performance. our health correspondent, sophie hutchinson, has this report. for years now, right across the uk, nhs performance has been deteriorating, failing to meet key targets aimed at saving lives and
Investing more and the numbers of staff employed are also rising but most experts are agreed that even more has to be invested in the nhs if they are to get back to the waiting time targets that were once routine. . ~ , ., and you can find out what nhs waiting times are like in your area by visiting bbc.co.uk/nhstracker where you can simply put in your postcode for the details. researchers at oxford university say the death rate among pregnant women and new mothers rose during the pandemic, to its highest level in nearly two decades. thrombosis, or blood clots in the veins, was the most common cause of death, with heart disease and poor mental health also common. the department of health says, last year, nhs england published a three year plan to make maternity and neonatal care safer and more equitable . the international court