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With your news now for the East Midlands, I'm Maurice Flynn. First | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
tonight: understaffed, under pressure and now under orders to do | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
things better. That's the outcome of the first in a series of major | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
hospital inspections in the East Midlands. Inspectors from the Care | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
Quality Commission decided the University Hospitals of Leicester | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
requires improvement. Our Health Correspondent Rob Sissons has more. | :00:37. | :01:32. | |
Things need to be better. This report very much emphasise as we | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
have very good staff who want to improve. The trust has had to go | :01:40. | :01:51. | |
overseas to get more nurses. Alfonso has moved from Spain to work in the | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
accident and emergency. It is is staffed by a lot of foreign nurses. | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
In this people are very welcoming. A new group that represents patients | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
said it will now keep a close eye on things. If I put it this way, it | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
could be a lot worse. There are quite a lot of positives. We went to | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
see change and we want to see improvement. We think it is | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
happening. The trust knows it has to improve. The challenge will be | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
sustaining it. There are financial pressures on the NHS. | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
Stephen Dorrell is not only one of Leicestershire's MPs, but also chair | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
of the parliamentary Health Committee. He told me constituents | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
are generally supportive of their local hospitals. As always with | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
acute hospitals in the health service, the vast majority of people | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
who go into the Leicester general or others have a positive experience | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
when they get there. But that doesn't excuse failure is of in | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
particular accident and emergency service that were reported in | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
December. I'm pleased the CQC has been honest with the public about | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
what goes on in the Leicester Royal and other hospitals in Leicester. | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
Also particularly pleased that we are able to see an improving trend. | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
Is it a good thing that we are hearing bad things? Does it mean the | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
watchdogs are doing their job? The CQC has been up in front of the | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
health committee that I'd share on an annual basis since the beginning | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
of this Parliament. We were very concerned and extremely critical of | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
the performance of the CQC a few years ago. It is now under new | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
management and is a much more reliable measure of the quality of | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
care that has been made statutorily independent by the government, in | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
order that it can speak truth under power. I think it is a key part of | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
the system. What about your other constituents, those who might work | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
in his hospitals? How demoralising must it be? I think what they will | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
here is what they see in their day`to`day lives, that this... These | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
are hospitals under pressure. They are hospitals which are addressing | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
this pressures. Of course, no one likes to work in an organisation | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
that has been criticised but it is even worse to work in an | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
organisation that you know is not doing what it should do and just | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
getting a whitewash treatment in public. That simply undermined that | :04:21. | :04:30. | |
undermines people 's confidence. New figures reveal parts of the East | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
Midlands are facing a 25% cut in the number of mental health workers who | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
treat some of the most vulnerable people. One expert warns it's | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
putting lives at risk. Both those of the patients and the wider public. | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
Chris Doidge reports. In Ripley, Jonathan tells me about | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
his experience of getting help for mental illness. You seem to go in | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
and they have one key worker. Sorry, that key worker is off. He is on | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
holiday. So you've got to go through your life story again and again. | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
It's happening... It has happened this year about three times. Many | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
other charities have found their funding squeeze. There have been | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
operational difficulties. You're going to have to reduce the amount | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
of work that we've been able to do. There have been cuts across the | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
sector. Local councils have reduced the grant funding and in the NHS, | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
mental health trusts have had to reduce the number of beds available. | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
Among those units in trouble in recent years, this one in Leicester. | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
After several bad reports on the Care Quality Commission, there are | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
signs of improvement. We've got to focus on the important pieces of | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
information. What are our patients are saying and what are our staff | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
saying? Were they recommend these services to their friends and | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
family? Demographic changes and better awareness mean mental health | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
is becoming a bigger and bigger issue. In the East Midlands, as in | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
the UK more widely, the funding for mental health is not keeping pace. | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
This issue will be debated on the Sunday Politics for the East | :06:15. | :06:15. | |
Midlands. Join John Hess and Andrew Neil, here | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
on BBC One from 11.15. Officials have described a case of | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
fly`tipping near Castle Donington, as the worst they've ever seen. It's | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
a mountain of waste, seemingly dumped in one. They say it's going | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
to take a week just to clear it, let alone trace those responsible. | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
That's your news. I'll leave you now with Anna Church | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
and your weekend weather. Something dry and warm this weekend, | :06:36. | :06:45. | |
you are in luck. Our wind is changing direction, ringing in | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
warmer air. There will be plenty of hazy sunshine. Overnight tight, it | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
looks like we may get one or two showers into the East but for most | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
of us, it is a dry night. A fair amount of cloud and maybe a little | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
bit of missed in places. Staying frost free. We wake up with the | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
cloud. We start to see that southeasterly wind pushing it away. | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
It's a breezy day and they will be plenty of hazy sunshine. There will | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
be a little bit of high cloud around but feeling lovely and warm in that | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
son with a high of 17 Celsius. It is a similar story on Mothering | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
Sunday. More in the way of cloud on Sunday but still plenty of | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
sunshine. Decent temperatures for this time | :07:32. | :07:32. | |
forward on Saturday night. Now here is Nick Miller with the national | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
forecast. is Nick Miller with the national | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
Hello. The clocks go forward this weekend, marking the beginning of | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
British summertime, BST. It has nothing to do with the weather. As | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
the clocks changed last year we were coming out of the March freeze. | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
This year, though, as the clucks change, the weather is warming up. | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
Not clear blue sky, the sun will be hazy but the thunder storms will be | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
gone. It will be mainly dry. And the weather is lively out there | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
this evening. There are bands of rain with hail over western parts of | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
the UK. A bit of rain for parts of the north | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
of England and south-west of Scotland. And lots of hill fog into | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
the Pennines. Mist and fog in the central and eastern areas of | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
England. It is a slow start in the morning. A lot of cloud around first | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
thing. Misty in places. Damp on the ground after the overnight rain in | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
south-west England. Clearing, it may threaten the Isles of Scilly | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
throughout the weekend, | :08:45. | :08:45. |