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Good evening and welcome to BBC London news with me, Louisa Preston. | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
"Out-patients having procedures in corridors and sewage leaking | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
Just some of the damning findings by health watchdog | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
The NHS Trust which runs three hospitals in Watford, | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
St Albans and Hemel Hempstead is being kept in special measures | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
for the third consecutive year, as Sarah Harris reports. | :00:32. | :00:43. | |
After 23 hospital stays, the last one for five weeks, 92-year-old | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
Doris Harrison, being treated for pneumonia, should be a good judge of | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
how Watford General could be improved. It's hard for them. | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
There's not enough nurses. I don't think areas. They could do with | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
another one on the ward. But inspectors didn't criticised | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
staffing levels at the trust that includes Watford, St Albans and | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
Hamill hospitals. Their report said outpatients provisions dignity were | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
compromised, the emergency department did not treat patients | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
quickly enough, and the temperature on some awards was too high to store | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
medicines. There were issues with the environment, where it's very | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
cramped. In outpatients they were patients having procedures in | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
corridors. Staff had almost become normalised. It's not appropriate to | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
be having care in the corridor. Despite improvements, the trust will | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
remain in special measures with nurses and doctors under pressure. | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
But managers insist they are heading in the right direction. As far as | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
patients are concerned the trust is still failing. I think we're on a | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
journey, as CQ CTC have said, we have a long way to come, and we've | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
come a long way. We are focused on our quality improvement journey. | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
There are substantial improvement in maternity and critical care, | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
improvement in medicine and surgery across all sites. The efforts being | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
made are appreciated by Yvonne Stanley from Abbots Langley, who | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
gave birth to both her children at Watford general and despite | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
challenges believes the community should get behind the health | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
service. I think it's an awful shame and there has been identified room | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
for improvement. On the whole my experience has been generally | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
positive latterly, had a bad experience with my mum a few years | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
ago. I can never be more than thankful to Watford General Hospital | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
for saving mine and my daughter's life. Its gratitude shared by Doris, | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
who it's likely will be a patient at Watford general for some time yet. | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
With staff determined to make further improvements, they will | :03:05. | :03:05. | |
remain under scrutiny. Businesses want the Chancellor parts | :03:06. | :03:15. | |
of south-east London and Kent could grind to a standstill if an urgent | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
decision is made on where to build a new Thames crossing. Both the | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
Federation of Small Businesses and London Chamber of Commerce say the | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
government needs to make good on its promise for another bridge or tunnel | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
Wood risk damaging the region's economy. Simon Jones reports. | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
A crossing that can't cope, causing gridlock on the region's roads. | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
That's why the Federation of Small Businesses | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
says in addition to the | :03:44. | :03:44. | |
Dartford Crossing a new lower Thames crossing is needed now. | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
There is a real problem with traffic congestion, | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
particularly here in Kent, but not just cant, London, | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
That will only be solved if we have another lower Thames | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
So we do need Chancellor Sir Philip Hammond to seize the day, | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
really, in the budget, and take some action on this. | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
In January last year, highways and then | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
multi-billion pound tunnel east of Gravesend as its preferred | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
option, rather than another crossing at Dartford. | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
A public consultation attracted 47,000 | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
responses, but still no final decision from the government. | :04:17. | :04:35. | |
They say the Dartford Crossing is creaking under the pressure of 15 | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
million crossings year, threatening to bring the south-east to a | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
standstill. The government's promised to come to a decision in | :04:45. | :04:45. | |
due course is not good enough. The government's promise | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
to make a decision in due course is simply not good enough. | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
Many in Dartford agree. I think it's disgusting | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
that they've never made How much do you think | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
the new crossing is needed? No one wants it on their doorstep | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
but it's definitely needed. As soon as you get | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
a snarl on the M25, an accident, that's it, | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
snags all the way back for hours and people | :05:11. | :05:12. | |
in Dartford are tailed back | :05:13. | :05:13. | |
for hours and hours. There have been protests | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
against the possible site near The Department for Transport | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
said today it recognises the need for a new crossing, | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
but said, again, a decision would be I'm optimistic we will actually | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
get a decision this It's important we get the right | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
decision that will give As soon as we get that | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
decision of course we will All eyes will now be | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
on the Chancellor Tonight one of Londons oldest | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
football clubs is facing Leyton Orient has been served | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
with a winding up order It's left fans anxious | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
over the club's future. This Italian businessman bought | :05:46. | :05:57. | |
Leyton Orient from Barry Hearn in the sum of 2014. Hearn said he was | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
convinced he could take Orient places. Nobody envisaged it meant | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
possibly out of the football league and out of business. Today Orient | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
was served with a winding up order by HM Revenue and Customs, and are | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
due in the High Court on March 20 to settle their debts with the taxman. | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
He's barely spoken to the media since he took charge. He repeated a | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
request from anyone for the club to be interviewed has been turned down. | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
Leyton Orient won't make any comment. The fans in one of the | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
oldest football clubs in London, for them it is worrying times. It | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
gradually got more and more ridiculous. We know the club is in | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
some debt, we know the chairman is trying to sell it now. At the same | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
time we're not hearing directly from the chairman as to what the state of | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
play is. Last year Albania's government abandon its attempt to | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
have him extradited to face charges of money-laundering. He denied | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
charges with his lawyers saying they were politically motivated. There | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
has been to a mile on the pitch, employing nine managers in his nine | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
years in charge. The team in serious danger of relegation out of the | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
football league. Right now the fans are less concerned with what level | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
their team plays at them whether they have a team at all to support. | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
Chris Lake, BBC London News. This baby girl from Surrey is one of | :07:25. | :07:33. | |
the youngest patients in the world to survive major abdominal surgery. | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
Abigail Peters was born four months early weighing just over a pound. | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
Doctors in tooting performed an operation on her at six days old, | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
now her parents have finally been able to take home. They have been | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
speaking to our correspondent. She was born prematurely at 23 | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
weeks, four months before her due date, weighing just more | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
than a 1lb of sugar, Abigail's survival | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
was At six days old, doctors | :07:58. | :07:58. | |
discovered she'd badly ruptured her intestine, | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
and her parents were told she needed It was suddenly, oh, no, | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
she has to go through this. We knew she wouldn't | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
survive, if she didn't have We knew that she might not survive | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
surgery, but she definitely You know, we signed | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
on the dottel line and we waited in this room, | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
funnily enough, for three hours. St George's Hospital in Tooting, | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
Is one of the leading places for paediatric | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
surgery in the country. But surgical staff had never | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
operated before on a baby who was As I said, her skin and her tissues | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
were very jelly-like. If you hold them, she | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
would start to bleed. If you can imagine, a baby that | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
size has very little circulating blood volume, | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
so you can't afford any blood loss. It was a great team of about 10 | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
people Focussing their The operation was | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
a success and after four months recovering in | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
the neonatal ward, her parents have For her to be so small | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
and to go through all that and survive, she's an absolute | :09:02. | :09:14. | |
miracle. She's been doing brilliantly | :09:15. | :09:15. | |
and we've been to treat She's not on any monitors | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
or oxygen or anything, but you still, kind of, | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
wondering all the time, is she still breathing, | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
is she breathing? She's had a lot of | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
hurdles in her short life so far but she seems to have | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
passed with flying colours. For the hospital, this | :09:33. | :09:45. | |
may be a first, but for Abigail's parents are just delighted | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
that every day she is getting A miracle baby. That's it for now | :09:48. | :09:59. | |
for me, I'll hand you to Tomasz Schafernaker to find out what the | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
weather is up to. The weather will rattle our windows | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
a little bit tonight. Wind coming our way. Some rain, too. Not an | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
awful lot but the wind will make its presence felt through tonight. Hence | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
some of the winds left over in the morning will be breezy. Here come | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
the arrows from the West. A few spots of rain, it really is just | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
wind rather than rain. It'll be nippy. 2-4 C. Tomorrow very breezy | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
in the morning. The rain to the north of us. We'll get away with a | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
dry morning, dry afternoon, temperatures will be around that 10 | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
degrees mark. 11 in the cities. Not a bad day for most. Come Friday, | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
what's this about? Rain coming in from morning onwards. It won't last | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
very long, it should clear by the afternoon. Let's look at the | :10:57. | :10:57. | |
outlook. A whole load outlook. A whole load of 11 is. What | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
does that mean? Maybe John Hammond will tell you. | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
We're in for a bumpy ride. The weather chopping and changing | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
keeping us on our toes. Rain never too far away from our crystal ball. | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
There has been rain around today across southern areas. This band of | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
wet weather pushing through Wales and the Midlands. A little bit of | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
the white stuff mixed in over the high ground Snowdonia, some snow for | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
an trans-Pennine routes as well. Snow at low levels through the | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
night. Further south the main story is the strength of the wind. | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
Blustery. Gales on the western coast and through the English Channel. | :11:41. | :11:41. |