I think in a sense we . Re probably at the point of near failure. The Llyn Peninsula in north wales. Its eight oclock in the morning, and home carer amanda is beginning her working day. Her first call is in pwllheli. Good morning have you got your bleeper on . My bleeper, why . What bleeping time do you call this . Amandas one of the uks 800,000 Home Care Workers, helping the elderly and disabled live independent lives at home. Today, shes with former Teacher William williams, who has multiple sclerosis. Its just nice knowing that i could go out there and help other people and make sure that theyre safe in their own home, and that they can actually stay home, and live at home in their own house, and dont have to go into care or anything like that. Im 72, remember. I havent got much time left we have many years to go again the girls, i have to admit, are terrific. Absolutely terrific. Theyre caring, theyre understanding and theyre full of fun. Like many carers, amanda struggles to make
by ambulance workers in england and wales. 0ne union representing health staff accused ministers of being intransigent because of their refusal to discuss pay. here s our health editor hugh pym. if steve barclay wanted any reminder of patients opinions on the state of the nhs, he certainly got it today. on a hospital visit, he met sarah, mother of a three year old suffering with cystic fibrosis, who had vital lung checks postponed for five days. we were short of doctors, we were short of beds going into the pandemic, so i think it s really wrong to blame it on the pandemic. the damage that you re doing to families like myself is terrible, because it was agony for us as a family waiting for that call and preparing our children for their sister and her hospital visit, for it to then be cancelled. and i know you look and we re all numbers but, actually, they re people waiting for care.
it can either be the pandemic that exposed health inequalities and made us make hard decisions over who we prioritise for treatment, or we can ignore it and keep doing almost what we were doing before and focus on things like the headline number of how many people are being treated, without really realising if that s leading to widening health inequalities or not. according to their research, shared with panorama, since the pandemic began, people waiting for treatment in the most deprived parts of england are nearly twice as likely to wait more than a yearfor care. those parts of the country that are the most deprived are the areas that are seeing waiting lists grow the most and also people who are waiting on those lists, a higher proportion are waiting for longer periods of time. and in a way that probably isn t a surprise. but it should be, it should be one of those wake up calls that depending on what part of the country you live, it really does affect how long you re waiting for ca
that exposed health inequalities and made us make hard decisions over who we prioritise for treatment, or we can ignore it and keep doing almost what we were doing before and focus on things like the headline number of how many people are being treated, without really realising if that s leading to widening health inequalities or not. according to their research shared with panorama, since the pandemic began, people waiting for treatment in the most deprived parts of england are nearly twice as likely to wait more than a yearfor care. those parts of the country that are the most deprived are the areas that are seeing waiting lists grow the most and also people who are waiting on those lists, a higher proportion are waiting for longer periods of time. and in a way that probably isn t a surprise. but it should be, it should be one of those wake up calls that depending on what part of the country you live, it really does affect how long you re waiting for care.
martha: a very moving ceremony as they president trump send the va accountability act, an all important step towards writing the wrongs the past when some veterans died waiting for care. it gives the va secretary more power to punish at employees and extends protection for whistleblowers. a veteran who lost two limbs discussed what happened when he returned from war. on april 24th 2010, i stepped on an improvised explosive device that caused a life altering injuries. i knew that such injuries were a risk in the enlistment that i made. what i was not prepared for was coming home to a broken va system. i wasn t prepared to wait 57 days for a signature on a piece of paper so that s my only prosthetic limb could be repaired. today is a new day. this administration has fulfilled its promise that the veteran is empowered. i didn t get to shake your