NHS England hospital ready figures at highest stage for 10 months, newest figures present
The ready checklist for routine hospital therapy in England has climbed to its highest stage for 10 months, PA Media reviews. PA says:
An estimated 7.64 million therapies had been ready to be carried out on the finish of August, relating to six.42 million sufferers – up from 7.62 million therapies and 6.39 million sufferers on the finish of July, NHS England stated.
These are the very best figures since October 2023.
The checklist hit a file excessive in September 2023 with 7.77 million therapies and 6.50 million sufferers.
Earlier there was a put up within the weblog says that, though the general variety of NHS England hospitals waits was up, the variety of particular person sufferers affected was barely down. That was primarily based on a PA Media report that has now been withdrawn. PA says that’s as a result of NHS England issued revised figures.
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Unite’s chief Sharon Graham says employment rights invoice has ‘extra holes than Swiss cheese’
Commerce unions are typically strongly in favour of the employment rights invoice, however Unite, Britain’s largest non-public sector union, has repeatedly complained about Labour not doing extra. In her assertion concerning the invoice, Sharon Graham, Unite’s basic secretary, stated that it was an essential step ahead, however that in some respects it contained “extra holes than Swiss cheese”. She stated:
This invoice is no doubt a major step ahead for staff however stops wanting making work pay.
The tip to draconian legal guidelines like minimal service ranges and the introduction of latest particular person rights, for instance on bereavement go away, can be useful. However the invoice nonetheless ties itself up in knots making an attempt to keep away from what was promised. Failure to finish fireplace and rehire and nil hours contracts as soon as and for all will go away extra holes than Swiss cheese that hostile employers will use.
The invoice additionally fails to offer staff the type of significant rights to entry a union for pay bargaining that might put more cash of their pockets and, in flip, would assist progress.
Unite will proceed to make the employees’ voice heard as we push for enhancements to the laws because the invoice goes by way of parliament.
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Transport secretary Louise Haigh accuses Tories of waging ‘toxic tradition wars’ towards street customers
Louise Haigh, the tradition secretary, has accused the Conservative authorities of waging “toxic tradition wars” towards street customers.
She was talking in transport questions within the Commons and responding to the Lib Dem MP Wera Hobhouse, who was asking if the federal government would do extra to make roads safer for cyclists.
Haigh replied:
I’m grateful to her for elevating that time and it sits on the coronary heart of our ambition to develop the brand new street security technique.
The earlier authorities pursued toxic tradition wars towards street customers of all descriptions. We’re decided to take again streets for pedestrians, cyclists and drivers. And that can be on the coronary heart of our new ambition for the street security technique.
Haigh was referring to measures introduced by Rishi Sunak final yr, when he claimed that native authorities had been engaged in a “conflict on motorists” and proposed numerous measures to again drivers.
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The federal government is about to call and disgrace employers extra often who fail to pay workers the nationwide minimal wage, Tom Belger is reporting in a narrative for LabourList. The Division for Enterprise and Commerce has stated this in a report on the nationwide minimal wage, and the way it’s enforced, that has been launched right this moment alongside the employment rights invoice.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives at No 10 for talks with Starmer and Nato secretary basic
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, has arrived in Downing Avenue for talks with Keir Starmer and the Nato secretary basic, Mark Rutte, Eleni Courea reviews.
Zelenskyy is because of give Starmer particulars of what he calls his “victory plan” for the conflict towards Russia. He had been as a consequence of meet Starmer and different world leaders at a summit in Germany on the weekend, however that was postponed after President Biden stated he couldn’t attend due to Hurricane Milton.
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Jonathan Reynolds strongly rejects declare from enterprise foyer ‘chaotic’ staff invoice will price jobs
Good morning. Through the election marketing campaign Labour promised to supply an employment rights invoice inside its first 100 days in workplace. The anniversary is on Saturday, and, simply in time for the deadline, the invoice is being printed right this moment. It’s massively essential to the commerce unions, who present the institutional spine to the Labour occasion, and, as Jessica Elgot reviews in her in a single day story, hundreds of thousands of staff will acquire new rights in consequence.
The federal government claims the scope of the reform is big – 9 million folks will acquire new rights towards unfair dismissal, greater than 1 million low-paid staff on zero hours can have the correct to job safety on a brand new contract, an additional 30,000 dad and mom will acquire new rights to paternity go away, and 1.5 million can be newly entitled to unpaid parental go away.
Ministers additionally imagine the invoice will assist at the least 1.7 million folks into the labour market who will not be working due to household commitments – and who would profit from new insurance policies on versatile working and parental go away.
Right here is Jess’s story.
In its information launch concerning the invoice, the federal government says it consists of 28 separate employment reforms. Right here is our explainer.
Labour has consulted extensively on the proposals, and it has made appreciable efforts to accommodate enterprise opinion; the unions haven’t bought every part they had been asking for, and there may be various essential, smallprint element about how proposals will work in apply but to be finalised. Keir Starmer has spoken loads about his need for Labour to be seen as pro-business, not anti-business, and he doesn’t need these plans to scare company Britain.
The TUC has described the invoice as “a constructive new chapter for working folks on this nation”. In a press release Paul Nowak, its basic secretary, stated:
Driving up employment requirements is sweet for staff, good for enterprise and good for progress. It should give staff extra predictability and management and it’ll cease good employers from being undercut by the unhealthy.
Whereas there may be nonetheless element to be labored by way of, this invoice alerts a seismic shift away from the Tories’ low pay, low rights, low productiveness financial system.
A few of the large enterprise organisations have but to offer their general verdict on the invoice. However the Federation of Small Companies, which is likely one of the foyer teams at all times most hostile to new regulation, has been hyper-critical. Tina McKenzie, its coverage chair, stated in a press release:
This laws is rushed job, clumsy, chaotic and poorly deliberate – dropping 28 new measures onto small enterprise employers suddenly leaves them scrambling to make sense of all of it. Past heat phrases, it lacks any actual pro-growth factor and can enhance financial inactivity, critically jeopardising the federal government’s personal 80% employment goal.
The FSB response has been picked up by the Each day Mail, which is the one pro-Tory paper to splash on the invoice.
Jonathan Reynolds, the enterprise secretary, was doing a morning interview spherical this morning. On the At this time programme, requested to answer the FSB criticism, he stated:
I might reject that very strongly.
Initially, there’s no surprises right here. Every thing on this bundle was within the manifesto.
Second of all, there’s a very robust enterprise rationale for these measures when it comes to getting extra folks into work, when it comes to ensuring there’s a hyperlink between job satisfaction and productiveness.
It ranges the taking part in area to what lots of companies are already doing, truly, to a better customary than these measures within the invoice would carry ahead.
It offers extra incentives for coaching. Now we have listened and labored very intently with particularly the Federation of Small Companies.
He additionally stated lots of the criticism reminded him the claims, made by the Conservatives and a few enterprise teams, that when the final Labour authorities launched the minimal wage, it will result in mass job losses. When it was put to him that the measures on this invoice would deter companies from hiring new staff, Reynolds replied:
I reject that completely.
And I feel, to be trustworthy, lots of these factors remind me of [opposition to] the introduction of the minimal wage, which, once more, weren’t discovered to be true as soon as it got here in.
Right here is the agenda for the day.
9.30am: Louise Haigh, the transport secretary, takes questions within the Commons.
Morning: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, is assembly Keir Starmer for talks in Downing Avenue. Mark Rutte, the brand new Nato secretary basic, can also be attending.
After 10.30am: Lucy Powell, the chief of the Commons, takes questions from MPs on subsequent week’s Commons enterprise.
11.30am: Downing Avenue holds a foyer briefing.
12pm: Robert Jenrick, one of many two Tory management candidates left within the contest, offers a speech in London.
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