that was the government's chief scientific adviser patrick ballance.re. our health editor, hugh pym is here. there was so much information, we heard about the stark warning but what new information did we learn? some of those projections from patrick ballance, which he said, we just heard, are very gloomy, were quite striking. even for those of us following it closely knowing there isa following it closely knowing there is a risk to the nhs with these cases going upwards, but the fact that daily admissions would soon get past, on the current trajectory, the peak reached back in march and april, and that current capacity in hospitals in england, both existing beds and surge capacity, extra beds you bring on, and everything extra created by postponing operations, all of that could run it by early december. remember last time in march and april, all forms of nonurgent operations, procedures and appointments were postponed to clear the decks for covid—19. right now hospitals are continuing with as far as possible they are normal workload and we heard chris