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...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....
...Much of the financial services offering was undertaken by Nvayo, under its FCA e-money licence....
...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....
...The hearing was shown some of the diary entries of Sir Patrick Vallance, who was chief scientific adviser at the time, in which he wrote that “watching” the then prime minister attempt to “get his head round...
...It’s why you’ve seen PG&E file for bankruptcy. I believe that was in 2019 or so....
...Johnson on Thursday said he “thought that Chris and Patrick must have known”, referring to Whitty and Vallance....
...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....
...Boris Johnson on Thursday said he “thought that Chris and Patrick must have known”, referring to Whitty and Vallance....
...“Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile wearing cotton shorts, a cotton vest and leather shoes,” says Patrick Grant, owner of menswear brand E Tautz and social enterprise Community Clothing....
...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”....
...The FT’s Laura Hughes is following the inquiry and joins us from there. Hi, Laura. Laura HughesHello....
...Sir Patrick Vallance wrote that the former prime minister was “obsessed with older people accepting their fate and letting the young get on with life and the economy going....
...“It needs to be translated immediately into measures favourable for farmers on the ground,” said Patrick Pagani, secretary-general of the farm lobby group Copa Cogeca....
...Johnson’s concession that he was “bewildered” by data on March 12 that showed the NHS would be under enormous strain irrespective of a lockdown, echoed comments from Sir Patrick Vallance, former chief scientific...
...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....
...Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s former chief scientific adviser, told the inquiry he would be “very surprised” if any minister had not understood the “risk” of the scheme increasing transmission rates...
...Mark Sedwill, a former UK cabinet secretary, did not dispute on Wednesday that he had made such a comment after the inquiry was shown diary entries from 2020 in which Sir Patrick Vallance, the government...
...In one of this week’s most damning moments, the inquiry was shown a diary entry from December 2020 in which Sir Patrick Vallance, then the government’s chief scientific adviser, wrote: “He [Johnson] says...
...Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s chief scientific adviser when Covid struck, said Johnson was “bamboozled” and “confused” by the scientific modelling presented to him....
...His comments came as the inquiry was shown diary entries from 2020 in which Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s former chief scientific adviser, wrote that Sedwill had called Johnson’s administration...
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...His remarks came as the inquiry was shown diary entries from 2020 in which Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s former chief scientific adviser, wrote that Johnson appeared “obsessed with older people...
...The inquiry was also told that in diary entries submitted as evidence, Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s former chief scientific adviser, had described the health department as “ungovernable”....
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