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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 health editor hugh pym spent the day with a&e staff at the royal berkshire hospital in reading, to see th...

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 other plans for things like fuel strikes and anything that might disrupt essential services, anything...

Very advanced contingency plans, particularly the fire service and the ambulance service. they'll 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. they'll also be looking about what they can offer, so some of the less important activities that these organisations do will have to stop, and they'll focus on saving lives and the priority calls. so those are quite advanced. they have other plans for things like fuel str...

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 it's the black news weather not showing. up one of the reasons why they may not be showing up because they don't 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 they're not wanting to talk about what defund was about, which was always about making sure -- it was supporting one forces because they signed up, they signed up to protect and serve, ...

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 sickness levels we have at this time of year, we have between a quarter and a third of our staff currently...