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Accident and emergency departments, which had their busiest ever month in november, are the worst affected. but waiting lists for treatment have also reached a record high. in october, 7.2 million people were waiting to start routine treatment in england. and the performance figures for waiting times in a&e speak for themselves. not one part of the uk comes close to the 95% target for people to be dealt with within four hours. northern ireland is doing especially badly in this context. our healt...

The ambulance service. they will be thinking about how they bring in staff who are essential to drive ambulances, perhaps nonunion staff, but also looking at things like the military, seeing how they can use them to assist them to continue to deliver their service. they will also be looking at what they can offer, so some of the less important activities that these organisations do will have to stop and they will focus on saving lives and the priority calls. those are quite advanced. they have o...

Very advanced contingency plans, particularly the fire service and the ambulance service. theyll be thinking about how they bring in staff who are essential to drive ambulances, perhaps nonunion staff, but also looking at things like the military, seeing how they could use them to assist them to continue to deliver services. theyll also be looking about what they can offer, so some of the less important activities that these organisations do will have to stop, and theyll focus on saving lives an...

Of octave, but to be clear, black people want law enforcement in their communities. when they call 9-1-1, they want them to show. up a lot of, times its the black news weather not showing. up one of the reasons why they may not be showing up because they dont look at this as priority calls and having to prioritize their calls because on force was playing a catcher. law enforcement is playing social worker, so theyre not wanting to talk about what defund was about, which was always about making s...

Does that look like? we are seeing the same issues as _ does that look like? we are seeing the same issues as our— does that look like? we are seeing the same issues as our colleagues| does that look like? we are seeing i the same issues as our colleagues in other ambulance services across the uk and ireland, we have a significant number of staff who are unable to work either because they have developed covid or they are having to isolate because of contact with it, on top of the normal sickne...

Them safe. fascinating. thank you for giving us that. i will put it up across our social media. our website so people can access it. you are from seattle. it was a great segue leading cops in that area. this gets personal for some police officers. portland police with a scary warning last week because they want to do the job but here is their reality. the department tweeted this, due to the critical incidents and staffing shortages now officers are only responding to priority calls and warning, ...

Due to critical incidents and staffing shortages officers were only responding to priority calls. warning response times will be delayed for certain calls. i am reading they are hours long. it comes as the city has hit a grim milestone, congresswoman. 80 murders so far this year surpassing the citys all time high of 67 killings for the entire year and that was way back in 1987. last year the department lost 84 police officers. they either retired or quit when the portland city council cut the bu...

The victims have been identified as his wife, child, and mother-in-law. >> sandra: police departments nationwide face during staggering a shortage of police officers, that some emergency calls are going unanswered. please say about the shortage is so dire that they were delayed in getting to more than 6,000 top priority calls for help in just the last year. >> they tell fox news that since the year 2000, there has been a shortage of 150,000 officers nationwide. here in minneapolis, the situation...

And joining us is the inspector joe car daro. in 2011, 535 murders in chicago in 2012, the wrong trajectory. it would seem youd want to be answering the phone calls. >> theyre shifting high priority calls and not handling or dispatching police officers to low priority calls and the theory is that the resources you save you can dedicate to fighting crime and patrolling hot spots. thats not a new strategy. thats been in use. >> tucker: in chicago theyre saying theyre not sending police officers fo...

good morning. we begin with lingering misery caused by hurricane irene. youre looking at live pictures now from patterson, new jersey, where crews are actually going door-to-door rescuing people from their homes. that water, by the way, coming from the passaic river is supposed to crest today at its highest level since 1903. a pretty eye-catching image of how massive the storm was. this is coming to us from nasa. its an animated satellite of irene as its churning up the eastern seaboar...