ng patients every shift. Guidelines suggest doctors should treat a maximum of 20 patients (library image) ‘Not everyone has 70, but most people are looking after well over 20,’ he said in an interview with The Guardian.Sir Richard’s comments were backed by other leading doctors representing healthcare professionals.Dr Mark Porter, chair of the British Medical Association, said: ‘Doctors are working harder than ever before as all NHS services come under enormous pressure from a combination of rising workload, falling resources and staff shortages in key specialities.’He added: ‘Four years of pay cuts had left NHS staff feeling devalued and under attack.’A Department of health spokesman said: ‘Patient safety and care is a priority for the government and it is right that we have high expectations for our NHS. 'While the NHS is one of the safest, most efficient healthcare systems in the world we should never shy away from trying to improve standards for patients.’ 2597558
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:ABC's This Week ― Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.; Rep. John Carter, R-Texas.___NBC's Meet the Press ― Shaun McCutcheon, whose campaign finance case was decided last week by the Supreme Court; Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group; Michael Mullen, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.___CBS' Face the Nation ― White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer; Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas.___CNN's State of the Union ― Reps. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Mike Rogers, R-Mich., C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, and Tim Murphy, R-Pa.___Fox News Sunday ― McCaul; Sen. Tim Kaine, R-Va.; Michael Hayden, a former director of the CIA and the National Security Agency. 2597552
WASHINGTON (AP) ― A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Obama administration officials for the 2011 drone-strike killings of three U.S. citizens in Yemen, including an al-Qaida cleric.U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer said Friday the case raises serious constitutional issues and is not easy to answer, but that on these facts and under this circuit's precedent, the court will grant the White House request.The suit was against then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, then-CIA Director David Petraeus and two commanders in the military's Special Operations forces. FILE - In this image taken from video and released by SITE Intelligence Group on Monday,Nike Free Run 6.0 Blue, Nov. 8, 2010, Anwar al-Awlaki speaks in a video message posted on radical websites. On Friday,Nike Free Run 3.0 V2 Army Green, April 4, 2014, U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer dismissed a lawsuit against Obama administration officials for the 2011 drone-strike killings of three U.S. citizens in Yemen, including U.S.-born al-Qaida leader al-Awlaki. Collyer said the case raises serious constitutional issues and is not easy to answer, but that on these facts and under this circuit's precedent, the court will grant the Obama administration's request. (AP Photo/SITE Intelligence Group, File) NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDITPermitting a lawsuit against individual officials under the circumstances of this case would impermissibly draw the court into 'the heart of executive and military planning and deliberation,' Collyer said. She said the suit would require the court to examine national security policy and the military chain of command as well as operational combat decisions regarding the designation of targets and how best to counter threats to the United States.Defendants must be trusted and expected to act in accordance with the U.S. Constitution when they intentionally target a U.S. citizen abroad at the direction of the president and with the concurrence of Congress, Collyer said. They cannot be held personally responsible in monetary damages for conducting war.The lawsuit sought unspecified damages.We believe the court reached the right result, Justice Department spokesman Brian Fallon said.Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU National Security Project, called it a deeply troubling decision that treats the government's allegations as proof while refusing to allow those allegations to be tested in court.The court's view that it cannot provide a remedy for extrajudicial killings when the government claims to be at war, even far from any battlefield, is profoundly at odds with the Constitution, said Shamsi, one of the attorneys who argued the case.At oral arguments last July, the judge challenged the Obama administration's position repeatedly,Nike Free Run 3 Womens, pointedly asking where was the due process in th