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
Was the overnight leader going into the final day of the weather affected dubai desert classic this morning. heavy rain on the first day means the event is finishing a day later than scheduled. mcilroy held a three shot advantage before today s play began and he s currently level at 18 under par, sharing the lead with american patrick reed after 14 holes. england s ian poulter remains in the hunt too, four shots further back. an interesting match between those two after they hit the headlines before the competition. back to you in the studio. john watson, thank you. now, more on our top story as the government and nhs england will announce details of urgent and emergency care plan to help serious pressure on the nhs. let s talk now with sally warren, director of policy at independent thinktank, the king s fund, to tell us her thoughts
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Compensation scheme for long covid and a panorama investigation found some are starting to lose theirjobs while others are dropping onto harpo. catherine burnsjoins us. we are hearing every day about staff shortages and this is another issue. i ve been working with the panorama team on this for months and i ve been looking at this and it so hard, staff with long covid and it s hard to get an assessment on that so we estimate around 90,000 health care workers across the uk are living with long covid and outs of the extremes, it could be people managing to work pretty well but i really tired, people doing reduced hours, phased return or people who have not been to work for months or even years. we tried to get that number, it s typical, nhs does not record how many staff are off with
The backdrop of teachers, nurses, railway workers saying they are not being paid enough and they feel that their pay rises are far too low to combat some of the cost of living pressures they are facing. so there is this kind of series of problems that the government is facing. there is a bit of a sense, i think, that mr sunak is having to play tomek spend a lot of his time firefighting some of the issues the government is facing, ratherthan some of the issues the government is facing, rather than being proactive in getting on the front foot. the ultimate question that tory mps will ask themselves is one of self interest. is there any chance that rishi sunak can turn things around enough to give them a fighting chance of winning the next election? he is trying to set out an agenda with those five priorities around the economy, the nhs, and around the economy, the nhs, and around small boats that he s been talking about for the last few weeks. but a lot of the time, a lot of the bandwidt