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In waited over 30 minutes. joining me now is dr denise langhor, emergency medicine lead at the british medical association. good afternoon to you, why is the situation being brought about? 50. situation being brought about? so, eve ear situation being brought about? srr, every year now situation being brought about? 557, every year now for situation being brought about? 5513, every year now for the situation being brought about? 5r3, every year now for the last few years, we've experienced what we call winter pressures within our emergency departments and hospitals. what the situation means by...

How we're going to actually manage with day—to—day winter pressures, covid demand and the vaccination demand as well. the government is calling for thousands of volunteers to step forward. in southampton, paula fraser has been volunteering since the beginning of the year. i like the fact that i feel as if i'm contributing. i'm doing something positive. it's very easy to sit back and just watch it and complain. so it's good to feel that i can be a part of something positive. the military are already on hand to help at the st helens rugby club in merseyside. in total, 750 members of the arme...

Measures are necessary and necessary as a response to the omicron, necessary to protect ourselves, the ones we love, and necessary to protect our nhs. we can't yet be sure about the severity of the omicron variant. but we can be certain that it is spreading and spreading fast, faster than any other variant. and even if a smaller proportion of omicron victims are hospitalised, the rapid advance of the virus through the population could see high numbers of people admitted to hospital during the months in which the nhs is on the greatest pressure and they should be no complacency about this. the ...

Measures might be needed. in wales at the moment the target remains to offer every adult a boosterjab by the end of january, something that seems hugely ambitious. we have heard of staff having their leave cancelled. the nhs is already under huge winter pressures in wales. 1 million boosterjabs have been delivered here, including 85% of people in their 70s and 20% of people in their 40s. their 70s and 20% of people in their 405. at their 70s and 20% of people in their 40s. at the moment that offer has not been given to young people and there is no online booking system in wales either. tonight...

The new measures for gps in england, an attempt to meet what's been described as a national mission to increase vaccine capacity. 0ur health correspondent laura foster has been telling us how unusual a step this is. so, it was earlier this year, a month into the vaccination programme on the 7th of january that nhs england sent out a very similar letter to its gps and directors of primary care, saying that you can suspend nonessential work in order to make sure that we've got enough people around to deliver the covid—19 vaccination programme. now, so much has changed since january but gps sti...