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The new super hospital at Southmead in Bristol is unable to cope with | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
growing demand and there is a huge backlog of operations. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
Treatment for some cancers, spinal problems, and brain conditions are | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
Our Health Correspondent Matthew Hill reports. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
Kath Williams says she hasn't had a good night's sleep in months. | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
Paralysed from the chest down, she gets paniful muscle spasms | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
But she's been waiting since December for spinal surgery | :00:36. | :00:45. | |
Your legs are just stiff and every now and then they will just | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
But according to a leaked report, Kathy and patients like her | :00:50. | :00:58. | |
at Southmead may have a long wait to come. | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
I've obtained this team briefing by the Trust, which highlights | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
significant delays for patients undergoing urological operations, as | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
It says 111 spinal patients were waiting more than 52 weeks, | :01:10. | :01:18. | |
breaching national standards which will require a longer term plan to | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
And in urology it says capacity and kit has affected both | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
The doctor in charge of the hospital is trying to secure more | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
funding from local commissioners to clear the backlog in Urology. | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
But the spinal surgery problems may need a national solution. | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
The difficulty with spinal operations is related to | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
the specialist work again that we do here at North Bristol Trust, | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
which can be done by a very small number of centres in the UK. | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
And there's been increasing referral and demand, as some other centres | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
have found that they are less able to do the specialist work | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
So we're working with NHS England and the national teams | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
There have been other problems with neurological operations. | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
This theatre that provides MRI scans at the same time, was out | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
It's partly because of problems in getting the right specifications. | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
And another highly specialist theatre for patients who need to be | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
conscious throughout is still out of action | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
because its door was not lead`lined to protect against radiation. | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
Of course there were always going to be teething problems with such | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
The impact of the ten`week closure of the urology theatre may take some | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
time for patients to clear through the system and they hope to have | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
lead lining of the doors in the other theatre within weeks. | :02:48. | :02:59. | |
A trial date has been set in South Africa for the honeymoon | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
The 34`year`old Bristol businessman has always denied any involvement | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
in his wife Anni's death in Cape Town in 2010. | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
It's been reported that Zola Tongo, the taxi driver convicted of Anni's | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
murder, will be a state witness in the trial. | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
It's due to start on the 6th October. | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
A second pilot badger cull has begun in Gloucestershire and Somerset. | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
Campaigners are patrolling cull zones to try to disrupt | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
The Government says the killings are an essential part | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
Protestors say shooting badgers is inhumane and not effective. | :03:30. | :03:40. | |
It should make encourage more people to use public transport | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
Bus travel in Bristol could soon look something like this. | :03:46. | :03:54. | |
Dedicated tracks and lanes away from other traffic. | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
It's a normal bus, on a new route between South and North Bristol. | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
Sometimes on roads which already exist, sometimes on new ones. | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
The proposed M32 bridge and road system would take out this | :04:08. | :04:20. | |
tree`line that you can see all the way through a woodland copse over | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
there behind us, over through into a wildflower meadow behind us here. | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
The actual construction of it, the noise, the pollution from that, it's | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
With the Bristol scheme already signed off, today it was the turn | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
of South Gloucestershire Council to get on board, which it did. | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
And if we stumbled and fell at this last hurdle, then the chances | :04:48. | :04:58. | |
of getting investment in future is definitely going to be reduced. | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
Bristol is the European green capital next year. | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
And yet, quite off`the`cuff, willy`nilly, | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
It would be quicker to walk from blooming South Bristol over to | :05:16. | :05:26. | |
Cribbs Causeway than that bus would take. | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
Brian can put that idea to the test soon enough. | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
After the council has found a company to run the scheme, | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
construction could start early next year and the buses could be | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
It's been a record`breaking day for two of Gloucestershire's cricketers. | :05:38. | :05:47. | |
Alex Gidman and Gareth Roderick's partnership of 392 runs against | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
Leicestershire smashed a club record that's stood for 81 years. | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
Gidman finished the day on 221 not out. | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
And in football, two of the West's sides were in | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
Andy Monkhouse scored the only goal of the game as Bristol | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
But Forest Green Rovers lost to Nuneaton, | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
Thousands of people will be for good weather tomorrow | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
because the Tour of Britain cycle race is heading through the west. | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
I'll say goodnight and leave the forecast with Ian. | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
If you're after sunshine and dry conditions you will be delighted. A | :06:37. | :06:50. | |
day very similar in many respects to today. Tonight, indeed, pretty | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
similar to last night. Clear skies and shallow mist and fog around. | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
Seven ` eight. That is how things are set up for tomorrow morning. The | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
mist clearing away readily. Then clear skies through the course of | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
the morning. Light winds all the way. A tendency to build up fair | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
weather cloud, particularly up to the east. No threat of rain | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
whatsoever. Leading to a fine evening. Temperatures today, 21 ` | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
22. We will match that tomorrow. 19`21 quite widely. It will stay | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
warm to the rest of the week. A tendency to increase the cloud as | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
the week goes on, but still some sunny spells and dry | :07:33. | :07:33. |