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For emergency appointments, in a sense is saying the gp is unavailable for three weeks, three weeks or more. and your gp is there for you to be able to discuss some worrying symptoms, have that vital referral to a specialist and potentially start a journey to what could be life—saving treatment. you know, to be told that for three weeks that that can't happen is, to me, it's not acceptable. the government says that this year it's delivering 93,000 more gp appointments every working day compared to 2021, and that it plans to deliver 2 million more this winter by bolstering general practice te...

Significant pressure from the covid pandemic and winter pressures, we remain deeply concerned about the risk strikes a pose to patients. i want to be clear, even at this moment of uncertainty, people must keep coming forward to get the care they need. people should continue to use nhs 111 if they need. people should continue to use nhs111 if they need medical help, and dial 999 in the event of an emergency. for retreat —— for routine treatment, hospitals will make sure things go ahead. inevitably, any strike will mean patients will have their treatment delayed and patients will be contacte...

Patients into a&e? yes, well, of course this has been the story . patients into a&e? yes, well, ofl course this has been the story for patients into a&e? yes, well, of. course this has been the story for a long time, you know, ambulance trusts across england have now been meeting their targets, there is huge variation of course but we on the select committee yesterday had a big joint inquiry with the science and technology committee on post covid and in many ways government, nhs, the patients face a perfect storm, we described, it was described a a twin endemic. there are covid levels, nothing...

The pandemic with more than 100,000 vacancies. we have come out of it with 130,000 vacancies. crumbling with 130 , 000 vacancies. crumbling estate, with 130,000 vacancies. crumbling estate, hospitals and pit are not in the state they need to be. it will take some time for us to close the gap and provide people with the health service they want and need. we know at this time of year, the nhs is dealing with respiratory infections, flu, pneumonia, bronchitis, adding to winter pressures. what is data telling you about how bad potentially this winter might be? it about how bad potentially this win...

Some will have come in with covid as their primary condition, but it does increase pressure on hospitals well before the real winter season has kicked in and we've had warnings from health leaders about the impact possibly of a covid wave and a flue wave which hasn't started yet, it's not definitely going to happen but it's been widely predicted, which will really add to the normal winter pressures and certainly those hospital admission figures, 1300 a day roughly now in england, are up quite sharply and will be watched extremely closely.— quite sharply and will be watched extremely closely....