Let me bring you some breaking news on the nhs. The average Response Time in february for ambulances in england dealing with the most urgent incidents, defined as calls from people with life threatening illnesses or injuries, was eight minutes and 25 seconds, nhs figures show. This is down very slightly from eight minutes and 26 Seconds Injanuary, but is above the target standard Response Time of seven minutes. Ambulances took an average of 36 minutes and 20 seconds last month to respond to emergency calls such as heart attacks, strokes and sepsis. This is down from a0 minutes and six Seconds Injanuary while the target is 18 minutes. Response times for urgent calls, such as late stages of labour, Non Severe Burns and diabetes, averaged two hours, four minutes and 12 seconds in february, down from two hours, 12 minutes and 48 seconds in january. Back to our top story. The communities secretary, michael gove, has told the bbc why the government is introducing a new definitgion for extrem
Ido i do geta i do get a lot of abuse. What do you normally do when you hang out together . This. We sit around, he abuses me. David baddiel will tell us about life with his father whose rare form of dementia makes him prone to extreme outbursts of swearing and sexual inappropriateness. Really keen to hear your experiences of caring for a relative with dementia. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning. Use the hashtag victorialive. And if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. Council tax rises are planned by nearly all of englands local authorities in the coming year, but the organisation that represents them is warning that deep cuts to services will still be needed. The local Government Association says social Care Services for the elderly and disabled are at Breaking Point and will swallow up any extra money raised. Heres our social Affairs Correspo
Needs covid pandemic or something that needs investment, i think you can build needs investment, i think you can build strategy. you can make long term investment. you will see the tory long term investment. you will see the tory party will probably strip out the the tory party will probably strip out the nhs and the police services, then out the nhs and the police services, than you out the nhs and the police services, then you will get the labour party, they wiii then you will get the labour party, they will invest loads of money back into it they will invest loads of money back into it we they will invest loads of money back into it. we are constantly on this cycle into it. we are constantly on this cycle of into it. we are constantly on this cycle of flip flopping back and forth cycle of flip flopping back and forth if cycle of flip flopping back and forth. if you ring fenced those services, forth. if you ring fenced those services, you will get proper investme
Reacted to the news. it surprises me, but who knows these days? i mean, one hears all sorts of things about all sorts of mps, and you just don t know what the truth is. horrified. it s horrific. who in their right mind would think that was sensible or even 0k? - it sjust ridiculous. if he has been accused, they have to find proof, really. so, you know, if they find good proof then i don t know. ..how they will deal with it. a neighbouring conservative mp defended neil parish s character. i am very shocked myself. i know neil very well. he is a good friend, a good man and a cracking good mp. and he has done the right thing, of course, in referring this to the parliamentary standards commissioner. and we will all have confidence in her, in kathryn stone, to look into this thoroughly and advise us as to what should happen next. but does an incident like this paint