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brief weather window, but not for long. that dry spell for many today, replaced by wetter weather over the weekend particularly tomorrow, then showers follow, some of the wettest weather perhaps wales and the southwest. that s where the met office have won it out for further concerns for flooding but ahead of that at least we ve had drier weather, hazy sunshine for the rest of the day but it time the rain is gathering, light and patchy to start with but you can see waiting in the wings something more significant. it s still relatively mild, average is around 6 7 this time of year and temperatures won t drop below much of that tonight but the rain, once it arrives, its stock for 6 10 hours. it looks set to clear from northern ireland later in the night, temperatures dip back to 7 degrees but for most it sits a mild night and rather grey and dreary start to our saturday. it might be a while before the rain reaches the far south east and east anglia but for most of us if i ....
qualified medical staff who are left without adequate supervision. tonight, we ask is patient safety being compromised? they re putting profits, money, ahead of quality of care. - that is a massive risk to patients. my name s jacqui wakefield and i m undercover at this london practice. it s run by a private company called operose health. operose has an estimated annual turnover of £88 million and is owned by a big american corporation. we re not naming this practice, or anyone who works here. it looks after around 20,000 patients. when phone lines open at 8am, dozens of patients wait in a queue to speak to me. 0perose health has grown rapidly in recent years. since 2016, it s spent millions buying gp practices across england. it now runs 70 surgeries with nearly 600,000 patients, making it the biggest gp provider to the nhs. panorama has spoken to a dozen former employees from across the 0perose group. one is a nurse who says she was sidelined in favour of lower paid, ....
who are left without adequate supervision. tonight, we ask is patient safety being compromised? they re putting profits, money, ahead of quality of care. - that is a massive risk to patients. i my name s jacqui wakefield and i m undercover at this london practice. it s run by a private company called operose health. operose has an estimated annual turnover of £88 million and is owned by a big american corporation. we re not naming this practice, or anyone who works here. it looks after around 20,000 patients. when phone lines open at 8am, dozens of patients wait in a queue to speak to me. a lot of my roles got taken away from me and given to healthcare assistants who had been trained up, not even healthcare assistants with a huge amount of clinical experience. i think the major risk by giving these tasks to people with less training and less knowledge is that they don t know what they don t know and that s when things get missed. this doctor says she left 0perose becau ....