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...Just under 6 per cent of Paris’ 1.4mn registered voters turned out for the referendum, the second of this type after a vote banning e-scooter operators last year....
...A green party politician in Socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo’s governing coalition, Belliard instigated just such a ban last year of e-scooter operators on the city’s streets with a similar referendum....
...CMA boss Sarah Cardell said the regulator would assess how the “tie-up between rival networks could impact competition”....
...CMA chief executive Sarah Cardell said the probe would assess how the “tie-up between rival networks could impact competition”....
...Boyle added there was little change in the high number waiting at least 12 hours for treatment once they arrived at A&E....
...Last winter, ambulance response times, including for life-threatening emergencies, reached their worst ever levels and patients faced record waits in A&E departments....
...Siva Anandaciva, chief analyst at The King’s Fund think-tank, pointed to “real issues with how long patients are waiting for care in key services”, including in A&E departments where 73 per cent of patients...
...The funding would also support the NHS by preventing hospital admissions and helping people to be discharged from hospital more quickly “cutting waiting times for A&E and ambulances”, the department added...
...the hospital’s same-day emergency care department is a national pioneer where patients receive treatment such as transfusions and MRI scans, relieving pressure on the hospital’s endlessly overstretched A&E...
...Like many of the Parisians who want them gone, Kielbasa called out instances of e-scooter riders mounting pavements or riding in pairs, a banned practice....
...Across all A&E departments, for example, the last time the NHS met its target for 95 per cent of patients to be admitted, transferred, or discharged within four hours of their arrival was July 2015....
As junior doctors take strike action the strain on the NHS is highlighted by official figures
...“Most of the demand we see in scooters will go to e-bikes,” said Moissinac. “They are less controversial.”...
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...He will also promise to reduce deaths from heart disease and strokes by 25 per cent within 10 years, cut A&E waiting times and ensure deaths from suicide are declining within five years....
...Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents health organisations, praised Labour’s “constructive” vision but added: “[W]e need to see specifics on what a boost to funding would...
...The NHS said: “While this analysis does not cover A&E, diagnostic or other hospital activity, the NHS is treating more patients than before the pandemic and despite industrial action and the busiest winter...
...That issue was resolved after several weeks of negotiations with the commission, which eventually ended in a carve-out for engines that ran on carbon neutral “e-fuels”....
...A record 40 per cent of respondents said they were dissatisfied with A&E services, an increase of 11 percentage points from the previous year....
...The idea that we’ll be seen within four hours of arriving at A&E, for example, that hasn’t been met since 2015....
...Attendance at A&E departments also rose to a record 2.2mn in December....
...We are going to focus on e-power and on battery electric, with a greater emphasis on battery electric,” Gupta said....
...Just over 72 per cent of patients were seen by A&E departments within 4 hours, compared to 65 per cent in December....
...At the same time, all hospitals with a major A&E department will have same-day emergency care units, staffed by consultants and nurses....
...A swift diagnosis can also spare patients waiting hours in A&E to find out whether they have tested positive, limiting bottlenecks....
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