内容摘要：The NHS and rest of the public sector are due to be shielded from a hike in National Insurance (NI) contributions from April next year.

The NHS and rest of the public sector are due to be shielded from a hike in National Insurance (NI) contributions from April next year.

But he's so cold from hours sitting in the ambulance it's hard for the nurses to do the observations.But he has a bed. The nurse can see the relief we feel.

"Go home. Get some rest," she tells me. "He's safe here now."Figures from a recent Freedom of Information request to BBC Wales revealed more than 2,000 ambulances spent more than four hours outside A&Es in Wales waiting to hand over patients in May.There have been 1,700 ambulances a month waiting more than four hours outside A&Es over a 12-month period.

The average handover time was 2hrs 11 minutes in May.Lee Brooks, the Welsh Ambulance Service's executive director of operations, said: "The issue and consequence of patient handover delays outside hospital emergency departments is well reported, as is the cause."

He said they did not accept that handover delays were the "new normal" and were "working hard to find solutions to the challenges as well as looking at evolving our current service model further".

Mr Brooks said that by actively looking at what they could do "to use the skills of our people differently", they could ensure fewer patients needed to travel to hospital so they could be cared for more effectively at home or in the community.Co-founder Jamie Crummie, 33, described it as a "triple win" for consumers, businesses and the environment.

"About 40% of the food we produce globally gets wasted but we are able to rescue that food," he said.Stuart Hearn, the business development manager at Ceva logistics, said: "We receive up to four containers of products per day, and we've received in excess of a million items in the first few weeks of operation."

In the UK, the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) estimated that in 2021, total food waste in the UK amounted to 10.7 million tonnes.hundreds of pounds per year.