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...He added: “On Rishi Sunak’s watch, record numbers of patients are left waiting for hours on end in A&E when delays can cost lives....
...This meant A&E departments fell short of the interim target set out in the NHS recovery plan for 76 per cent of patients to be seen in four hours by March this year....
...In England, 42.4 per cent of people waited more than four hours to be seen in A&E in September 2023, up from 8.1 per cent in January 2013, the ONS found....
...However, just 69.7 per cent of patients were seen within four hours in A&E departments, well short of the target of 95 per cent and down from 70.2 per cent the previous month....
...Meanwhile, Bolton NHS Foundation Trust said patients were facing waits of up to 11 hours in its emergency department, and Airedale Hospital in West Yorkshire said its A&E was “exceptionally busy”....
...Sir Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, told the BBC on Thursday that more than 1,700 additional paramedics and ambulance support staff have been recruited to help alleviate the pressure on A&E...
...Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said: “The prospect of A&E departments closing thanks to Rishi Sunak’s failure to end NHS strikes will send shivers down patients’ spines....
...“The NHS has not met targets for ambulance handovers since November 2017 and for A&E waits since July 2015, with wider declines in performance across the board,” the committee said....
...Just under 71.6 per cent of patients were seen within four hours in A&E departments, well short of the target of 95 per cent and down from 73 per cent the previous month....
...Something to watch Pinduoduo is a Chinese e-commerce company: most people in Europe and the US will know it for its app Temu....
...Whereas Ameritrade, E*Trade — they lived on the online trade....
...The number of operating oil rigs in the US, a barometer for activity in the industry, has dropped 16 per cent to 502 compared with the same time last year, according to Baker Hughes, an oilfield services...
...Yield curve control: a lesson (or warning) from Japan Last week in Unhedged, Jenn Hughes asked if yield curve control might reach the US....
...For more on this idea, see a recent Prospect piece by Harold Meyerson. Trump is about to become his own worst enemy....
...Shawn E Okpebholo’s “Romance” takes him higher still....
...But the trailing P/E ratios are what they are, and Nvidia is even more expensive than Cisco was in 2000 on this metric....
...Cockett’s point of departure is Carl E Schorske’s Pulitzer-prize winning 1979 work Fin-de-Siecle Vienna....
...Could well be, though it would mean the popular Shiller p/e ratio, which is very high now, has misfired....
...In his 1961 book Victorian Suburb, Harold Dyos wrote that “the choice of trees, too, had its social overtone”: planes for the well-to-do, limes for middle incomes, bare tarmac for the working class....
...Sustainability investors had better watch him too, since Musk offers a potent lesson about the peril of ignoring “G” (governance) factors when chasing “E” (environmental issues)....
...Also reporting before the bell are medical device producer Abbott Laboratories, oilfield products company Baker Hughes and custodial bank Northern Trust....
...When Shara Hughes first comes into view, I’m somewhat disappointed that she’s not wearing a jungle-print jumpsuit or a Day-Glo, tie-dye hoodie....
...Our talented markets colleagues, RBA antagonist Jennifer Hughes and Treasury market whizz Kate Duguid, will be filling in intermittently next week....
...Good Harold Pinter Theatre, London With Rebecca Frecknall’s sensational Cabaret still running at the London Playhouse Theatre, up stepped a very different show examining the insidious creep of fascism....
...The line-up includes Los Angeles lawyer E Randol Schoenberg, who worked on the legal battle over a portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Gustav Klimt (depicted in the 2015 film Woman in Gold)....
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