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BBC News
13-07-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Devon and Cornwall ambulance crews 'treating people at home'
The South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said it takes fewer patients to hospital than any other ambulance trust in the May 2025, nearly a third (30.53%) of patients were seen and treated on scene and did not require conveyance to hospital, according to NHS figures show in July 2025, patients waited an average of two hours to be admitted to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth and almost an hour and half outside the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Garry Cornelius-Dodds said: "As a general rule, if they can stay at home, we do as much as we can to leave them at home. We try and explore every option to leave people at home." A hospital emergency department should accept the transfer of a patient into their care from an ambulance within the national performance standard time of 15 not, a handover delay occurs and the patient remains in the ambulance until the hospital accepts the handover of executive of SWASFT Dr John Martin said the ambulance service alone could not significantly reduce the delays experienced or resolve the current explained handover delays reflected blockages in the flow of patients through the health and social care system and because of this a "whole-system response" was required. Since November 2024, SWASFT has been working with the region's hospitals to develop a Timely Handover Process (THP) which is now up and running in 13 hospitals in the south west. It aims to free up crews to respond to other 999 calls in the University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust said it had seen a reduction in average handover times of approximately 80% since the introduction of THP.
South China Morning Post
01-07-2025
- Politics
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong's best chapters are still unwritten
Feel strongly about these letters, or any other aspects of the news? Share your views by emailing us your Letter to the Editor at [email protected] or filling in this Google form . Submissions should not exceed 400 words, and must include your full name and address, plus a phone number for verification Advertisement As Hong Kong celebrates the 28th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule, I can't help but recall my first impressions of the city. As a child, I watched the handover ceremony on television in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Hong Kong wasn't very familiar. We knew it as the land of kung fu or Britain's crown colony. I read about Kai Tak airport in a book written by Satyajit Ray and imagined Hong Kong as a vibrant city, shrouded in mystery. I thought of Hong Kong the way it was depicted in Hollywood films – full of intrigue, skyscrapers and narrow, neon-lit alleys. I never thought I would one day live here.
RNZ News
30-05-2025
- Politics
- RNZ News
Trading places: Seymour steps up, Peters gears up
In Focus on Politics, RNZ deputy political editor Craig McCulloch sits down with the incoming and outgoing deputy prime ministers to mark the historic handover. David Seymour is vowing to keep speaking freely, while an unshackled Winston Peters shifts into campaign mode. To embed this content on your own webpage, cut and paste the following: See terms of use.
Daily Mail
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
BREAKING NEWS Chagos 'surrender' CAN go ahead: Judge clears Keir Starmer to hand over UK territory after chaotic 11th-hour court attempt to block it
Keir Starmer was today cleared to announce the UK's 'surrender' of the Chagos Islands after a judge threw out an 11th-hour attempt to block it. The Prime Minister's plan to announce this morning that he was handing the archipelago to Mauritius was thrown into chaos after a High Court injection was made in the dead of night. Two Chagossian women born on Diego Garcia - now home to a major UK/US airbase - are fighting the handover as part of their bid to be allowed to return home. But after an emergency hearing this morning Mr Justice Chamberlain ruled that the handover of the islands, formally the British Indian Ocean Territory, can go ahead. The judge ruled at 12.43pm: 'I have concluded the stay should be lifted. And there should be no further interim relief.' Sir James Eadie KC, for the Foreign Office, told the High Court that 'damage has already flowed' from the delays caused by the injunction being issued, and a decision was needed by 1pm to get the deal done today. The handover agreement, which has been approved by US president Donald Trump, is highly controversial. Mauritius, which is friendly towards China, will be handed billions of pounds of taxpayers' money over decades for the lease to Diego Garcia. Critics say the country's friendly relations with Beijing mean the agreement will hinder the security of the base. Sir Keir was due to attend a virtual ceremony alongside representatives from the Mauritian government this morning to sign off on the deal. But in the early hours of this morning it emerged a High Court has granted an injunction stopping the negotiations being concluded. Mr Justice Goose granted 'interim relief' to Bertrice Pompe and Bernadette Dugasse, Chagossian women who had previously launched legal action over the deal, at 2.25am. The Chagossians were forced to leave the central Indian Ocean territory by 1973 to make way for the base. The Tories said that the injunction was a 'humiliation' for the Government. Under the terms of the agreement, Britain is expected to give up sovereignty of the island territory to Mauritius, and lease back a crucial military base on the archipelago for 99 years. That was expected to cost £90million a year. The Government has argued that it has to give up sovereignty over the islands due to international legal rulings in favour of Mauritius. Following the signing ceremony, MPs were due to be updated on the terms of the deal in the House of Commons, which could include a 40-year extension to the lease of the military base. Mr Justice Goose granted 'interim relief' to Bertrice Pompe, one of two Chagossian women who had previously launched legal action over the deal, at 2.25am. Mr Justice Goose issued the 2.25am injunction, ordering: 'The defendant shall take no conclusive or legally binding step to conclude its negotiations concerning the possible transfer of the British Indian Ocean Territory, also known as the Chagos Archipelago, to a foreign government or bind itself as to the particular terms of any such transfer.' The order continued: 'The defendant shall in particular not dispose of the territory in whole or in part. 'The defendant is to maintain the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom over the British Indian Ocean Territory until further order.' According to the order, the judge granted the injunction 'upon consideration of the claimant's application for interim relief made out of court hours' and 'upon reading the defendants' response'. A Government spokeswoman said: 'We do not comment on ongoing legal cases. This deal is the right thing to protect the British people and our national security.' Diego Garcia, the largest of the Chagos Islands, is home to a joint UK-US military base, used to project Western influence in the Indian Ocean. Critics of proposals to hand over the islands to Mauritius fear the move will benefit China, which has a growing reach in the region. News reports recently suggested the deal had been delayed, with the Times newspaper claiming it had become 'toxic' amid criticism from Labour's political opponents. The Conservatives are among those which have criticised Labour's handling of the negotiations, though they began discussing the handover with Mauritius when they were in power. Speaking in the the House of Commons just this week, Defence Secretary John Healey insisted the base on Diego Garcia was 'essential to our security', and the UK's security relationship with the US. 'We've had to act, as the previous government started to do, to deal with that jeopardy, we're completing those arrangements and we'll report to the House when we can,' he added.
