minutes of lucy letby being convicted at those seven murders and six attempted murders of very vulnerable babies and the countess of custard neonatal unit the department of health and social careendent inquiry. the rational at that point was an independent inquiry would be more flexible and perhaps could answer some of the big questions that were mentioned quickly, but soon after that announcement ran into trouble. members of the families, involved, some local mps, senior health leaders were saying, actually, the independent inquiry is not good enough. but we need a statutory judge let inquiry that can force witnesses to give evidence. particularly as michael was mentioning some of the senior hospital managers who were accused of ignoring warnings given to them by other members of staff about lucy letby. that almost seems as soon as that policy was announced and it ran into opposition, it seems like it was going to be something that would have to change and change it has. any idea of the timeline i had now? know, that is all still to be confirmed. we do not know who the judge is who will lead the inquiry, it will take some time to set up. that is one of the issues is that a st

but new figures from the department of health and social care have revealed as a result of a written ent parliament that the department has axed 1 in 6 civil service jobs within 7 or 8 months in a bid to direct funds towards the frontline of the nhs to help tackle waiting lists . as we've tackle waiting lists. as we've explained on this programme in the past , that britain once the past, that britain once ruled the world with a vastly smaller service and now smaller civil service and now it's become bloated and bureaucratic . indeed, the latest bureaucratic. indeed, the latest figures show 40% of the work force still working from home, cutting back on whitehall waste is a crucial part of getting costs under control, paving the way for cutting taxes and unleashing britain's growth path. i'm now joined by my panel path. i'm now joined by my panel, the barrister and former tory mp jerry hayes , and the tory mp jerry hayes, and the author and broadcaster amy nicole turner. amy, this is great news, isn't it, steve? barclays done a fabulous job to get rid of the sixth civil servants. a man

this ever happening again, and we welcome the independent inquiry announced by the department of health and social careesson from this awful case. that is the inquiry that has been announced by the government just in the last few minutes. i also want to remind you of the statements that we heard here on the court steps at manchester crown court at the conclusion of that trial. we heard first of all from detective chief inspector nicola evans from cheshire police, she was the deputy senior investigating officer on the case. this is what she had to say. this has been a long and emotional journey for all of the families involved in this case. i speak on behalf of the entire prosecution team when i say that all of their babies will forever be in our hearts. i would like to thank all of the families in this case for their exceptional resilience and strength throughout this entire investigation. their composure and their dignity during this trial has been truly overwhelming. the investigation into the circumstances surrounding this case started in may 2017. since that time, hundreds of witnesses have been sp

might the health secretary, steve barclay, have found the solution to the woes of nhs waiting lists? well, he's axed 1 in 6 civil servants working for the department of health and social carervices . i hate to line of our services. i hate to say i told you so, minister. writers are drawing up plans to tackle shop lifting. repeat offenders will be handed . offenders will be handed. mandatory prison sentences could this be a crucial step in fixing broken britain? while state of the nation's very own alleged criminal barrister may be able to answer that one plus two of britain's foremost prominent former colonies as australia and the united states are enhancing their military their strategic and military relations amidst increasing tension from the looming threat of the chinese communist sports. state of the nation starts now . state of the nation starts now. i'll also be joined by an astute panel this evening. criminal barrister and former tory mp jerry hayes , and the author and

might the health secretary, steve barclay, have found the solution to the woes of nhs waiting lists? well, he's axed 1 in 6 civil servants working for the department of health and social care front line of our services . i hate to line of our services. i hate to say i told you so, minister. writers are drawing up plans to tackle shop lifting. repeat offenders will be handed . offenders will be handed. mandatory prison sentences could this be a crucial step in fixing broken britain? while state of the nation's very own alleged criminal barrister may be able to answer that one plus two of britain's foremost prominent former colonies as australia and the united states are enhancing their military their strategic and military relations amidst increasing tension from the looming threat of the chinese communist sports. state of the nation starts now . state of the nation starts now. i'll also be joined by an astute panel this evening. criminal barrister and former tory mp jerry hayes , and the author and jerry hayes, and the author and broadcaster amy nicole turner. as always , i want to hear from as always, i want to hear from you. it's the most important part of the programme.

and seriously injured babies in her care. nhs england has now confirmed that she has been suspended. a spokesperson for the organisation said we welcome the independent inquiry announced by the department of health and social ignored by alison kelly and other senior managers. that news again about one of the key figures in the lucy letby case. alison kelly is the former director of nursing at the countess of chester hospital during the time when letby murdered and seriously injured babies in her care. nhs england has now confirmed that she has been suspended. we will be discussing this on the radio after ten o'clock. there will be more on the bbc news website and 3pp be more on the bbc news website and app throughout the day and of course on bbc radio 5 live. the sentencing starts after ten o'clock. we are talking about women's sport this morning. what is the state of play? it's been a long road. as they say, it's been a greatjourney. let's hear sean in lincolnshire. you are a coach. where are you with all this? i have four adult daughters. two of them were so invested in this. they were just numb after the result. but were just numb after the result. but we want the bigger picture from you, sean. 3, , we

to be fair to the government or the senior figures in , the department of in dhsc, the department of health and social care the were led to believe by the families that families last week that a non—statutory inquiry was was acceptable . that's changed over acceptable. that's changed over the weekend. and we heard rishi sunak, didn't we? speaking earlier richmond in earlier in richmond in yorkshire, all his yorkshire, saying that all his priority is to do the best by the victims , the families the victims, the families victims, trying to get victims, and also trying to get a thing done as quickly as possible. problem with possible. the problem with the statutory it can get statutory inquiry is it can get tied legal argument tied up in legal argument for a long seeing that long time. we're seeing that right with the covid right now with the covid inquiry. huge cost taxpayer. inquiry. huge cost of taxpayer. everyone gets a lawyer. the victims and it can go on for quite, quite a while. so they're trying instant view of trying to get instant view of what happened here. the is what happened here. the view is th

but we do have a statement from the department of health and social care, which has throughout has saidemic, our aim was to protect the threat to the public from the threat to health covid and we health posed by covid and we specifically sought to safeguard care home residents based on the best information at the time . best information at the time. most of the country experienced high temperatures and sunshine this week. >> but people we've seen sunbathing and enjoying the weather in brighton, london and bournemouth, the weather might feel a little differently this weekend. temperatures did reach 25 degrees, but yes, there is a but because it's a bank holiday weekend , inevitably joining us weekend, inevitably joining us now to give us a full rundown of what we can expect , brace for what we can expect, brace for it. >> john hammonds here to tell us the worst. john >> oh, come on, mark. it's glorious out here in the garden. yeah, it it's not searingly hot . it'sjust yeah, it it's not searingly hot . it's just pleasant. and i think to be honest, we'll probably look back and give this ba

important because chhs where the 3 aways of health and human services are housed in the department of public health. conditional of health care services and social services. society cdii organization is on the top reporting to the secretary for health and human service in that agency in the state. high willful program of we were required as we were all health care organization in california to sign the state's new data sharing agreement part of the new data exchange framework we did so in february of this year. only health care organizations were required to sievenlt human services organizations and public health jurisdictions were not required in the lawful as mandatory. there are many signatoryys in place we are look to what come next that is supposed to be information exchange. by january of 2024. the good news is what all almost all health care organizations in california are participating in data exchange already. and i shared statistics to your commission in the past we have been on epic we are transacting millions of records. some are rust us querying all of the health care organizations to share information for folks that we comanage. an

looking at the department of health and social care, and we have here.nd that means only one thing. it is looking more unsettled again. we do in some parts still need the rain, but this has been the fourth or fifth consecutive weekend we have seen the pressure arriving. forthe weekend we have seen the pressure arriving. for the rest of today the bantering we currently have moving across and northern england and wales will turn more showery, and there will be heavy showers following behind. looking at the temperatures, there into the high teens are parts of scotland. we might squeeze 20 on the moray firth, with more break this year. some heavy showers, as you can see from the intensity of the colours here. after that drier start with some sunshine in southern and eastern areas, there are a scattering of showers as we head towards the afternoon. some places in the south and east will stay largely dry. it is blustery today, will stay blustery overnight. another mild night, but hopefully not as muggy as last night. we are losing some of that humidity we have

that the composer right now and it's who you go after a statement who do you go after a statement from of health from the department of health and said , throughout and social carethe threat to health posed by covid. and we specify specific , i think and we specify specific, i think that says, yes, it does specifically sought to safeguard care residents based on the care home residents based on the best information that we had at the time. there we go. i'm the time. so there we go. i'm going to go into this inbox right lots of reaction to right now. lots of reaction to the conversations i had not so long ago about whether or not the climate crisis was going to disproportionately affect members of the lgbt q plus community gbviews@gbnews.com. and we have got two people arguing about whether or not whether is going to discriminate against lgbt people. what i find fascinating about that was we had a chat. we've had i think i'm right. i think i'm fairto i'm right. i think i'm fair to say this we've had three interesting characters from america today on this show and not all of them, i think, were portraying a kind of world that i recognise . but hey, they've i recog

of the department for the study of poverty. christine seifel explains poverty is a political choice if we provide more comprehensive health care and better socialmething about it the expert gives a typical example about the us we do not have a parental leave policy, so people who have children often have to sacrifice work if their child is sick, gloomy in foggy albion, according to finational times for the last year, more than a million 100,000 cases have been recorded here, as the newspaper notes, the causes are a severe crisis in the cost of living, impoverishment, they say, let me remind you, we are talking about the two richest capitalist countries in the world, let alone the poor, but very proud and metropolitans near belarus this summer , bolt news reports, that latvia is confidently holding the lead in the eu in terms of food inflation, as the economist janis germanis calculated, if the overall inflation in the country since the twentieth year has been 32%, then the food inflation is h42, as the agency calculated for the latvians bread, meat, poultry, cereals, dairy products, sugar, pasta and much more are more expensive traditionally sl

but in terms of the response from the department for health and social care, they said these findings across service is across the health service is like and they say figures like this. and they say figures should be compared year on should not be compared year on year as there have been more people waiting overall people on waiting lists overall because pandemic . and because of the pandemic. and just finally, the hospital here, they are saying the royal free hospital are saying there is nothing to indicate that waiting for an elective procedure contributed or caused the deaths of patients captured in this data. and of course, what emily thornberry mentioned about the 18 weeks, they said patients waiting longer than this period of time for treatment at the royal free confirmed that none came to severe harm or died as a result of their wait. but of course, what we do know is that these figures do do paint us a picture of what the state of the nhs is , regardless of the sample nhs is, regardless of the sample size. yes >> so reaction from both the department and the hospital there just

of community foundation for social and environmental justice. aerobic time i hear something about health and the department of health i look around and try to see what they are doing, are they really taking care of us? article 31 there is nothing about testing residents to see if the dust has contaminated their lives, their children and effected their health. my biggest concern is the disconnect between industry and the community. we already have 40 thousand units in san francisco that are unoccupied. 140 percent of high end homes have been built. only 35 percent of low income and moderate income, such as teachers, only 35 percent. 145 percent, 35 percent. where we live it is very dangerous. the environment. not talking about the people, talking about the environment. even if you bring in new soil, once that soil gets wet, whatever is under the ground will come up. my concern is that we need a full cleanup. my concern is that we do not need housing on contaminated land. my concern is while housing is being built the community is second. our health is second and that needs to stop, because whatever goes on in the bayview hunters point district 10 will travel all over san francisco, san jose, t