Todays report and give further updates in due course. Katy austin, bbc news. The Health Secretary, wes streeting, said Englands Healthcare Watchdog is not fit for purpose and needs radical reform. He was speaking after an independent review found significant failings at the care quality commission. Our health correspondent Jim Reed has the latest. From hospitals to Gps Surgeries and dentists to Care Homes, the cqc is the organisation in england meant to regulate all these crucial parts of our lives. A new independent review out today, though, will say the whole system needs urgent reform, and the new Health Secretary agrees. There are brilliant People working throughout the nhs and social care, but what we cant do is pretend that there are also not enormous amounts of failure to be seen. And for that failure to be rotting at the heart of the cqc is intolerable. We will not tolerate it, we will take the action needed to deliver the radical reform that organisation needs. According to th
Only star on show. Emerging from behind a veil of Ink Feathers was lady gaga, the first musical act of the night. Now that of athletes then sailed down the River Seine. Total of 85 boats paraded the teams on a six Km Journey through the centre of paris, with more than 300,000 spectators lining the banks of the river without Relentless Rain Put A Damper on the party. There were more pyrotechnics throughout the evening. The only torts was used to light a massive display of fireworks alongside the river. The day he got off to a difficult start after a several of the acts sabotaged of several of the acts sabotaged of several acts of sabotage on frances high Speed Railway Network the olympic torts was used. More now from our correspondent andrew harding. Something the attackers clearly understood. The impact immediately felt across northern france, passengers forced to abandon this train stuck on the outskirts of paris. And in the capital itself, confusion at the busiest Railway Station in
Including East Kent and shrewsbury, where a series of Maternity Scandals have unfolded over several years. Jack and sarah hawkins s daughter harriet was stillborn after mistakes were made by Maternity Staff in nottingham. I the things that i would like to havel changed, the things that would have helped us in our lives would have been for the cqc to take over the work that we had to do that was in fact theirs, to investigate properly. The regulator is meant to give hospitals, Care Homes and other services one of four levels of ratings from outstanding through to inadequate to help the public decide what form of care they need. The Health Secretary has said those ratings should now be taken with a pinch of salt. Care home managers say the current situation is hugely worrying. The inconsistencies, the fact that inspections were taking too long, and if they were being done, that they were actually not reporting in good time we have raised so many of these issues. The cqc says it will acce
correspondents on both sides of the channel and in rwanda. also in the programme: russia s flagship vessel in the black sea is seriously damaged ukraine claims it hit the ship with missiles. nhs leaders warn this easter could be as bad as most winters for the the health service. gallowgate offered mungo his shoulders to sit on. and the booker prize winning author who says more voices like his need to be heard. you can t possibly understand this country unless you are fairly represented with working class voices. and coming up on the bbc news channel, the end of an era for women s cricket as england s two time world cup winner anya shrubsole retires from the international game. good afternoon, welcome to the bbc news at one. the government has announced plans to send some asylum seekers to rwanda. single men crossing the english channel in small boats will be flown 4,000 miles on a one way ticket to africa, to be processed and resettled. the prime minister says the governm