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doctors, nurses and essential staff, ambulance drivers as well? what we know is where ambulance drivers as well? what we know is where ever ambulance drivers as well? what we know is where ever you ambulance drivers as well? what we know is where ever you look - ambulance drivers as well? what we know is where ever you look in - ambulance drivers as well? what we know is where ever you look in the l know is where ever you look in the system, we are under huge amounts of pressure. huge amounts of pressure in terms of colleagues in social care, which means we are absolutely having larger numbers of people than we would like medically fit to discharge which clearly makes patient flow through the hospital is difficult. we know we have got too many people whose 999 calls we cannot answer quickly enough. we also know we have got a very ambulance service in terms of having to wait to handover patients. talking to my colleagues my colleagues and community services, if you look at the
of the vaccine booster programme to help deal with the omicron coronavirus variant. hospitals and thousands of community sites including pharmacies are set to offer the jab. let s talk to andrew lane, chair national pharmacy association. pharmacies are going to be at the centre of this battle to get all adults in england vaccinated by the end of january. adults in england vaccinated by the end ofjanuary. it is adults in england vaccinated by the end of january. it is a adults in england vaccinated by the end ofjanuary. it is a huge task. do you think it can be done? it absolutely can be. pharmacies are really well placed delivering the booster. it will allow gps to get on with clearing the care backlog in the nhs. we have been central to the nhs response to covid throughout and the vaccine programme is one of the ways we have stepped up. i had the vaccine programme is one of the ways we have stepped up. ways we have stepped up. i had my sister and a ways we have stepped up. i ha
again primarily a covid health service and that it is able to do all the other functions that a health service should be able to offer. how close are we to that point of tipping back towards being primarily a health service that is dealing with covid and its impacts rather than catching up on the backlog? rather than catching up on the backlou ? ~ ~ , ., ., backlog? well, i think it is fair to sa that backlog? well, i think it is fair to say that the backlog? well, i think it is fair to say that the nhs backlog? well, i think it is fair to say that the nhs has backlog? well, i think it is fair to say that the nhs has worked - backlog? well, i think it is fair to i say that the nhs has worked really hard to make those inroads into the backlog of care in recent months. there has been 2.6 million patients starting their consultant led treatment during june and july, half a million people were checked for cancer last month, 3.9 million diagnostic tests. we are really making inroads i
the success of the vaccine programme is saving lives and has severely weakened the link between cases and hospitalisations. chris hopson is the chief executive of nhs providers which represents hospital trusts in england. if you talk to hospital chief executives, what they tell you as they are going absolutely full pelt to recover the care backlog. we have a very busy accident and emergency care, very striking how many people say they saw record numbers of people in their emergency departments injune. as you know, we had then got about 10,000 beds fewer than we normally have so we ve lost about 10% of capacity because of infection control and what we have on top is this problem of the fact because community infection rates of covid are rising we have large numbers of staff self isolating and of course those numbers will increase if as after the restrictions get relaxed onjuly the 19th, what we will see is those numbers are people who have to