chris, sophie and doctor chaand, - up with the investment. all forjoining us here on this programme. from all of us, goodbye. good afternoon it is one of those at weekends where you have sunglasses on one minute and umbrella the next and we will continue with that theme throughout the weekend. heavy downpours around, some are such an in between the showers and then staying pretty cool in the middle of may. the most frequent, heaviest showers for the rest of the day will be for the south—west of england, midlands, wales as well seeing some hail and thunder as there is a showers shift gradually northwards. easing for most of us overnight. luxury clear skies for scotland, four or 5 degrees here. the uk, seven or 8 degrees. downpours already towards the south—west for tomorrow morning and there area of low pressure will be dominating, bringing us more of those torrential showers. initially heaviest in the south—west, but they will pop up elsewhere as we head through the course of the day and by the afternoon could catch a shower or indeed a thund

also i'm joined by chaand nagpaulfrom the british medical association.tt from the mental health charity mind. good to have both of you here with us and i know that he will be with us and i know that he will be with us as soon as he can. and let's talk first of all about the implications of this in terms of the scale. can you paint a picture of what exactly we are faced with in the nhs in terms of backlog? i would look before the pandemic and how it looks now was before went to the pandemic, we know the nhs was slightly struggling because we know, we had more cases we struggling because we know, we had more case ., ., ., more cases we had more than we were able to treat- — more cases we had more than we were able to treat. we _ more cases we had more than we were able to treat. we saw— more cases we had more than we were able to treat. we saw the _ more cases we had more than we were able to treat. we saw the worst - able to treat. we saw the worst waiting times we he seemed a long time that we had covid—i9. it happened at the covid—i9 was we had to conce

let's speak now to dr chaand nagpaul, chairman of the british medical association. relaxing of restrictions be postponed?— of the relaxing of restrictions be --ostoned? ~ , postponed? the prime minister said from the outset _ postponed? the prime minister said from the outset we _ postponed? the prime minister said from the outset we needed - postponed? the prime minister said from the outset we needed to - postponed? the prime minister said from the outset we needed to be . from the outset we needed to be guided by data and not dates, and while we have come a long way and it's fantastic to the vaccination programme be so successful, at this moment in time, we do need to be concerned about a certificate increase in numbers of new cases. today, we have actually now seen about a 45% increase in number of deaths in the last seven days and also a 23% increase across hospitalisations. the data at the moment is not looking promising and that's because of course of the new variant. and when you look at the conditions for coming out, the road map conditions, one of those cr