01/11/2016 London News

One of the country's leading teaching hospitals

Inspectors rated safety at St George's Hospital in Tooting

as "inadequate", with operating theatres "not fit for purpose".

It joins a growing number of London hospitals which are being told

Here's our political correspondent, Karl Mercer.

The face of 21st century health care.

And the face of something vdry different.

Modern care in the neonatal unit, the renal transplant clinic,

working out of premises that are long past their best.

St George's in Tooting is a hospital that's struggling with its past

This is its answer to a damning report from health inspectors.

It'll be rebuilt after inspdctors found things so bad here th`t

they've put the hospital trtst into special measures.

Well, in two years, the sittation was that St George's had gone

from being a good hospital, getting good results,

to a hospital which had major problems with maintaining

the basics, so the buildings were not maintained adequatdly.

There were other safety precautions that were not in place.

Infection control was not being done as it should.

The rest of what inspectors found back in the summer is just `s bad.

Some operating theatres, they said weren't fit for ptrpose.

Several areas of the hospit`l's estate were in a state of dhsrepair.

There was low morale amongst theatre staff and consultant surgeons.

Water came in during heavy rain and leadership across sever`l

It is a picture of the organisation which clearly shows that we haven't

met the standards that we w`nt to meet and, therefore,

I'm disappointed for the st`ff, I'm disappointed for the colmunity.

Like many of these reports, though, the work of staff is praised,

saying they are caring and professional.

So, does a report like todax's change the way that parents

here in the neonatal unit are thinking?

Um, no, because I think bec`use we'd had the experience before,

we know that the staff are really good and they are looking

So, I'm not concerned about his care.

It's not really too much of a problem for us.

Everyone in here has been absolutely brillian.

As Nicola says, the care has been fantastic with the baby and everyone

This time last year the local MP was a doctor

in the Emergency Department at St George's.

Patients up and down the cotntry are facing the same problem

we are seeing throughout all of London, which is frankly

We have a Government that are not putting in what we need to deliver

The Government says it is pttting ?10 billion more into the NHS.

Here, St George's had started its improvements but admits

it'll have to borrow from cdntral NHS funds for more work to be done.

If it isn't given the money, it'll have to cut services.

More now on news that the M`yor has ordered an investigation

into the cost of converting the former Olympic stadium

Our reporter, Jannat Jalil, has been looking into this.

We're talking about increase of ?50 million.

That's right. And that's just since last year. When Boris Johnson said

the cost would be ?272 millhon. Now Sadiq Khan is saying the re`l figure

is actually ?323 million. So how has the cost gone up so dramatically?

Sadiq Khan is laying the bl`me squarely on his predesows o. His

spokes mab has said he is ddeply concerned about the finances of the

Olympic Stadium, which he s`ys has "clearly been left in a tot`l and

utter mess by the previous administration at City Hall." West

Ham is paying ?12 million of the total but it is a fraction of the

cost, and the rest of the bhll is being picked up by the taxp`yer

What reaction has there been to the news? Tonight the Taxpayers'

Alliance has come out with ` statement welcoming the inqtiry and

said for too long the details on the deal had been kept secret and lacked

proper scrutiny. It says it is a ludicrously funded taxpayer subsidy

and demands explanation to those signed off in the agreement. I

should say we have yet to hdar from Boris Johnson himself on thhs. OK,

thank you. Police have confirmed they're

investigating a series of incidents in North London in which fireworks

were aimed at them, as they were dealing

with anti-social behaviour. Residents on one estate told us

how rockets were pushed through letterboxes

and thrown at cars. These are just some

of the videos, all posted Whether you were driving

in your car, or sitting at home So residents here posted

and they posted in their hundreds. Someone literally got a firdwork

in their arm yesterday while they were walking thehr child

home from school. And this was amongst

the worst footage filmed. Someone shared apparently a light

from a rogue firework. The morning after and the owner

didn't want to speak to us but he did confirm off camera indeed

that a fireworks' box had bden thrown over his wall and set alight

to his shed, tree and fence. Eventually I found one resident

who was prepared to speak on camera. concerned, but I have seen

they always gather here. I don't know if it is Hallowe'en

or not, they obviously gathdr here and really it makes

the residents scared and worried. At this time of year,

teenagers misusing fireworks What is about what happened here,

is that there were some 60 people firing fireworks at each other

and according to the residents that I've been speaking to,

that they weren't children, they weren't teenagers,

they were in fact, mostly in their 20s, men and women,

some wearing balaclavas, others firing fireworks frol piping

from their shoulders. A few days ago this

was filmed in Stamford Hill. Keep an eye on the

teenagers with the bike. Their victims knew nothing

of what was happening. One eight-year-old girl was left

with burns to her leg and the police This patrol car was hit by fireworks

in Tottenham last night. It prompted this call

from the local MP. I think when fireworks can be used

as weapons, in the age in which we are, and they could be

very, very dangerous weapons, indeed, very, very, sadly,

we are coming to a stage where we may need to withdr`w them

from everday use for the public And the more footage

like this is posted online, Next, it's the unmistakable sign

that turned the Met's headqtarters Now, though, Scotland Yard's HQ

is moving - to a former polhce The old building is said to be

outdated and too expensive but as Daniel Sandford reports,

it's been the Met's base NEWS REEL: Broadway, South West 1,

a building in keeping with our time. The home of Scotland Yard

from now on. It was 1967 when the Metropolitan

Police moved into New Scotl`nd Yard, a time before e-mails,

before computer mapping. The great train robber,

Bruce Reynolds, still on thd run. Ten years later, in 1977,

this was modern crime fighthng, Looking back at the pictures

of herself, Rosalie Gist The excitement of working in

the world famous New Scotland Yard, but also the casual sexism

of the day. We would be asked to do things that

men weren't asked to do. We would be asked to go out and get

presents for the boss's wifd because they'd forgot

it was her birthday. The Flying Squad, the Sweendy,

headquartered in New Scotland Yard for decades, is perhaps the most

famous group of You have that sense of pridd

and achievement that you've actually Barry Phillips joined the Mdt

in 1975 and was a Flying Sqtad Then, almost all the force's main

units had head offices It brought together that

cross-fertilisation of intelligence, of ideas,

of thinking, of comraderie. From New Scotland Yard,

the force had to cope with the IRA bombing campaign,

and the 7/7 attacks and although many squads ard now

elsewhere, the top brass will still be based

at a new office in Westminster. This will be the fourth

Scotland Yard and they've The point is, the Commissioner

and his or her top officers have So, after nearly 50 years of crime

reporters standing outside New Scotland Yard in front

of the rotating silver But already a new one has appeared

outside what will be the replacement headquarters

on the banks of the Thames. Daniel Sandford, BBC News, `t the

new New Scotland Yard. And I'll leave you with Stav Danaos

for a look at the weather. And a chilly 1st November.

Absolutely. Big difference. We lose the mild air and say good morning to

the frosty weather for the next couple of days. That weather front

we had spreading across the region through the day will clear `way

overnight, clear skies, light winds, recipe for a cold one to cole. Maybe

a touch of frost out in the Home Counties, generally around 4 or 5

for the capital. Tomorrow morning we start on a cold night with plenty of

sunshine. Through the day, set to stay dry, we are under the hnfluence

of high pressure, north, north-westerly winds. Gener`lly

light. Passing cloud here and there but lots of sunshine, temperatures

11 at best. Much colder than what we have been used to. A cold, frosty

start on thumplts you will be scraping the cars wherever xou are.

Through the day some sunshine, temperatures 10 or 12. But notice

behind me the cloud. That is because this weather front will comd across

sending this weather for us on Friday, a yukky day, wet and cold.

Through Saturday and Sunday, northerly winds pulling down, which

means there will be sunshind and showers and it'll feel cool. To

recap, looking good for the next couple of days, frosty mornhngs

before turning unsettled. Good You know what, in

evening. the last few days, much more following the calendar. A warm

end to October, 1st November, abrupt change to the weather. In fact over

the next few days, we will be getting colder air all the way from

the north, almost from Arctic regions, a real nip in the air

particularly for folks getting up early in the morning A good frost

around and there is a frost on the way tonight. This is what is

happening on the satellite. This ribbon of cloud is a cold front

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