Health Secretary Wes Streeting and NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard visit the service's National Operations Centre to highlight increasing pressures facing A&E services going into winter. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Morning Secretary of State. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. Hello, how are you doing?
00:04Nice to see you Minister. Morning, good morning. Right. Sarah Jane. Come and meet the fantastic
00:09operational team then. Good morning, how's it going? Lee who runs our UEC operations.
00:15Hello, how are you doing? Hello, how are you doing? Hello, how are you doing? From the team
00:18there in charge of keeping us safe this winter. Hello, how are you doing? This morning that what
00:24we're most worried about, well what we were most worried about was what Storm Darrow was going to
00:28do. West region particularly worried about and there's quite a lot of pressure in the
00:32with the rest of the regions around the country to kind of get up to date in terms of how. The
00:36part this has really helped with I think is historically there was quite a lot of phoning
00:40of the trust. That's what we say when all else fails we send in Leslie because Leslie will be
00:45like. It's fascinating though that you go right, I mean obviously it's one thing going into granular
00:50data on kind of different providers but you're going wrong. We have been joined by our Secretary
00:57and we would not normally see those level of occupancy at this time of the year.
01:04So targets are important, there's a reason why they exist but I'm less worried about a percent
01:11here or there. Your priorities too so I just want to be clear about that from the outset.
01:18We're realistic about the scale of the challenge we've inherited and the time it will take to
01:22see things turn around here is to deliver the system. Delayed
01:26discharges that improve the flow of patients through hospitals and of course improving.