Ashish Joshi

1 month ago | news.sky.com | Ashish Joshi

Mark Hammersley is a survivor. Standing in the Welsh sun, smiling broadly with an outreaching hand to welcome me, he looks the picture of good health. There is no sign of the trauma. Or the desperate battle for life he fought and won. Image: Mark Hammersley, who was treated for COVID in an intensive care unit in October 2020 I first met Mark as he gasped for air in Warrington Hospital's intensive care unit.

2 months ago | news.sky.com | Ashish Joshi

The government is backing a new study to track the long-term effects of vaping on young people – and launching an anti-vaping campaign aimed at teenagers. The study will track 100,000 young people over 10 years. It will monitor them from the age of eight up to 18, collecting health data and tracking their wellbeing and other behaviours. The long-term effects of vaping are not fully known.

2 months ago | medium.com | Ashish Joshi

Ashish Joshi·Follow3 min read·--A digital illustration of Apache Kafka and Node.js integration, visually representing real-time data streaming and processing in a cloud environmentApache Kafka has become the backbone of modern event-driven applications, enabling real-time data streaming at scale. While Java has been the dominant language for Kafka development, JavaScript developers have long relied on libraries like kafkajs, node-rdkafka to integrate Kafka into their Node.js applications.

2 months ago | news.sky.com | Daniel Dunford |Ashish Joshi

The number of patients waiting for 12 hours in A&E after a decision has been made to admit them - known as a "trolley-wait" - rose above 60,000 for the first time in January. Waits of this length, usually indicative of a lack of available beds in the hospital, were almost non-existent before the pandemic. The January total - equivalent to more than 15% of all patients admitted via A&E - is more than the total recorded in over 11 years from August 2010 to October 2021.

2 months ago | news.sky.com | Ashish Joshi

It's rare access. To allow Sky News cameras into a hospital as it struggles through another winter crisis. How did we know there would be one when we began filming in early December? Easy. There's a crisis every winter in the NHS. And we knew it would be bad, but didn't know quite how bad. That was the issue we wanted to explore. We always know winter is coming and that hospitals, in this case the Royal Berkshire in Reading, like almost every acute site in England, will struggle.