departments, and to make inroads into the backlog of care that built up into the backlog of care that built up and was building up before covid and built up a lot more during covid. that balancing act, meeting demand and making inroads into the backlog, is a tough thing to do it the best of times, it is impossible to do when you are losing around half your medical staff. so there is no question that the targets we have set for ourselves, the aims we have got to reduce those waiting lists are going to be dented by this and thatis are going to be dented by this and that is a real pity. because we had been making progress, we had got to the stage at the end of march where we massively reduced almost to zero the number of people waiting more than 18 months for example for a procedure. so it is kind of heartbreaking if you have been a leader in the health service, anyone in the health service, and you have got those waiting this down, you have got, achieve the balancing act and lo
Do they have such a low profile we have our snoop around to catch a glimpse talking to the distributors of this starts june 10th w. This is day 8 of the news live from berlin merkel insists how government will press on the german chancellor says shes not planning any changes to the countrys Governing Coalition this out to the surprise resignation of the leader of the Social Democrats a move that promised a coalition can into crisis. Im
rebecca read his welcome to the Program German chancellor Angela Merkel got its get Markovic Governing Coalition took another bating today the later of its Junior Partner the Social Democrats and else to resignation even the future of both the party and germanys government in doubt Social Democrats and merkels conservatives were once the countrys 2 biggest parties lightly as they were plunging in Opinion Polls but mogul has promised to keep on with the task of governing. After a year in the top job at the s. P. D. Andrea now this says shes standing down
reconciliation service acas. when you looked at the opinion polls at the time, there was quite strong support forjunior doctors at the time, there was quite strong support for junior doctors at the beginning, but is that dispute went on for weeks and months, you saw some of that support ebbing away and it will be interesting to see what we see in this dispute. we are only at the second round of strikes for junior doctors and this has only gone on three or four weeks and that support from the public appears to be holding up. the question is what happens if this goes on longer, what happens if this goes on longer, what happens if this goes on for another three orfour months? happens if this goes on for another three or four months? there has happens if this goes on for another three orfour months? there has been speculation the press today this could run until the next general election in 2024, this industrial dispute, so whether that support from the public holds up in the longer term i
a great sense of responsibility for. the issues we have to solve our for germany and europe and the rest of the world with this mindset we will continue working the holes that s likely to prove no easy task especially with both the main parties seeing their support ebbing away. and joining me now is a political correspondent hans bronte standing by at the s.p.v. headquarters here in berlin has the bodies both been discussing who would succeed and on this news is come in that an interior trio will lead the party tell us more . yes this is a decision that a trio will be the interim leadership on to a new party congress is going to appoint and finally a new party leader this trio consists of 2 women and one man 2 of these people are people that are not really. vicious they don t have any ambition to actually become party leaders they re simply senior members of great standing that are trying to
seeing their support ebbing away. but in our political correspondent hans brown to a standing by at the s.p.d. headquarters here in berlin where we know that the party s board is meeting right now to discuss who will succeed andrea knowledge but hans i mean really the big question at this hour is will the ground coalition survive. that is the big question indeed and i think it s not possible to answer that at the moment it is certainly in grave danger of collapsing this will not happen today but it is possible that it will happen before the end of the year the factors involved are especially what s going to happen in the social democratic party and all that under the analysis leader has resigned and then alice was in fact the leader who pushed the social democrats into this grand coalition against quite a substantial resistance within her party that has just over 2 years ago when this government was formed and now that she is gone the question is whether this faction