me and the big c cancer podcast will be published today. and images captured by drone cameras to help monitor deer populations in england. good morning and welcome. the government is set to announce details of a £1 billion investment to tackle emergency care delays in the nhs. the two year blueprint will mean a roll out of extra hospital beds and ambulances in england. the government is expected to pledge 5,000 new beds, increasing capacity by 5%. there will also be a 10% boost in ambulances, with 800 new vehicles on the road. prime minister rishi sunak calls it an ambitious and credible plan, but warns the plan to cut delays will take time . meanwhile, labour have accused the government of watering down key standards and say the plans aren t enough to tackle the pressures the nhs is facing. 0ur health correspondent jim reed has more. ambulance staff are waiting with their patients to come to the emergency department cubicles, which are currently full. record waits in a&e
and colleges to be properly staffed, and that means that we have to invest in people who work in them. when we meet with her this afternoon we will point out figures from bodies that are not unions that show comparisons between teacher pay and other pay, teacher pay falling faster than many other places in the economy. that is a material factor in why we can t recruit and retain enough staff in our schools. families might sympathise with what you are saying, and many other people facing similar challenges, and yet we all know there is this inflation problem, the government has to find taxpayers money from somewhere if it will acquiesce to these sorts of requests. and that potentially increases the tax burden and worry about fuelling inflation too so families might say, look, we understand it is really difficult but don t necessarily think strikes are the way forward. we but don t necessarily think strikes are the way forward. but don t necessarily think strikes are the way forward. w
someone available to replace them. i don t think that s going to be a material factor. last year, holiday passengers experienced, you know, social distancing on planes, middle seats were left open. a lot of people simply didn t want to fly. a lot of flights were half full if not less. do you anticipate it s going to look different this year? yeah, absolutely. as a matter of fact, on u.s. domestic we ve come roaring back. stumbled with the delta variant, if you look at things in june, numbers were way up for domestic. obviously with international, you ve got border closures and other restrictions, but for domestic flying, people came back as soon as they felt okay. again, with delta, kind of stumbled a bit but we re making a pretty fast recovery now, and of course getting that capacity back in place to serve them, that s a major challenge, considering the depth to which the industry fell as a consequence of the pandemic.