Author, George Saunders, whos won the man booker prize for his novel lincoln in the bardo. Good morning. Its wednesday, the 18th october. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The performance of hospitals has slumped across the uk with targets for cancer, a e, and planned operations now being widely missed, according to bbc research. Nationally england, wales and Northern Ireland have not hit one of their three key targets for 18 months. Only scotland has hit one of the targets. The findings are revealed as the bbc launches its online nhs tracker project, which allows people to see how their local service is performing on three key waiting time targets being seen within four hours in a e, cancer care beginning within 62 days of diagnosis, and planned operations taking place within 18 weeks in england and scotland. The target wait time is different in wales and Northern Ireland. To tell us more, were joined from nottingham by our Health Correspondent in the east midlands, rob
Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. The number of patients on Hospital Wards has been at unsafe levels in nine out of ten nhs trusts in england this winter, according to figures obtained by the bbc. Some hospitals were operating at close to full capacity, putting increased pressure on the number of beds available. All week we are taking an in depth look at the state of the nhs in a series of special reports. Heres our Health Correspondent, jane dreaper. Its been a very difficult winter at Yeovil Hospital in somerset. Like many other hospitals in england, theyve had to battle Behind The Scenes here to find enough free beds in recent weeks. You can get periods, particularly over the winter period, when you are managing bed by bed, minute by minute, and teams are having to spend a lot of time and Energy Running around finding a bed for the next patient that needs it. And moving patients between beds isnt ideal, we dont like doing it unless we really have to, but sometimes you have to prioritise
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