03/11/2011 Look East - East

Tonight, as the pressure piles on the James Paget Hospital, the

Health Secretary blames the bosses for the crisis. It is about

leadership. Making sure that leadership at all levels through

the James Paget Hospital is able to give, within the trust and for the

public beyond, an absolute assurance about the quality.

Meanwhile, patients complain to us about their treatment and a former

employee says she was bullied. witnessed and professionalism. We

had swearing and temper tantrums with staff storming out. In other

news tonight: 150 miles an hour around the streets of Milton Keynes.

This speeding biker is banned for five years. And the Essex teacher

behind one of the TV hits of the year. Nice straight lines, let's

The most beleaguered hospital in the region is in crisis tonight

because of poor leadership. That was the message today from the

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley on a visit to the James Paget Hospital

in Norfolk. Mr Lansley said it was the hospital's bosses who were to

blame for the mess, which yesterday resulted in the resignation of the

Trust chairman. But he refused to be drawn on the future of the

hospital's chief executive. Our chief reporter, Kim Riley, reports

now on another day of pressure at the James Paget. Mr Lansley's visit

was arranged some time ago. He met the medical director and chief

matron from the hospital before a brief visit to the board and

meetings with top management. hospital needs relief and a rest

from management. They need to be allowed to get on with good job

they are well capable of doing. fewer was amazed with an exchange

on our programme last night about resignation. Her I was told by

someone who knows a lot about what is going on at the hospital about

bullying from management down and shouting down people who raised

concerns. To recognise that? Not at all. -- do you recognise that? I

would not have stood for that. It is not in my nature to allow that.

I am an open person. I would do something about it if I knew about

it. Susie and used to work as an administrator at the hospital. She

was due to take it to an employment tribunal. A hospital settled two

weeks ago, paying her off. She refused to sign a gagging order

about the bullying. I witnessed and professionalism. There was swearing

and temper tantrums with stuff storing out. Ignoring and

victimisation. -- staff storming out. Blasphemous comments were made.

A thoroughly unpleasant place to work. Very. Something I had never

experienced at that level before. The trust announced the former

editor of the Eastern Daily Press was taking over as interim chairman.

The embattled chief executive is determined to press ahead. We are

pleased that the achievements we have made have been recognised. We

are not complacent. Some people think you are the problem and you

are the weak link and you should have resigned. That has been said

that we work as a team. Everyone who works here is focused on

improving patient care and continuing the good work we do.

have been here several hours. I have lost count of the number of

people who have come up to me wanting essay about the hospital.

Reg moved with his wife from Bedfordshire and she is being

treated right now I'm one of the wars. He said as for the hospital

and the staff, he thought they were great and could not fault them. So

how did the James Paget Hospital find itself in the Casualty

Department? Debbie Tubby charts the story of an NHS Trust in need of

emergency treatment. The James Paget Hospital was diagnosed as

sick in April. Its symptoms concerns about dignity and

nutrition. The health watchdog, the Care Quality Commission, told it to

make improvements. They issued a warning notice demanding a hospital

trust make swift improvements or its prognosis was prosecution or

restriction of services. Two-and- a-half weeks ago the hospital was

we inspected. The results are due soon. This whistle-blowing letter

sent to the Health Secretary was signed by a group of concerned GPs.

It resulted in calls for the hospital chairman to resign. I am

concerned about the third report also ending in failure. Perhaps it

is time for someone else to take up the reins. There are the board of

directors. Yesterday the chairman stood down. I am so upset that

first double I feel I had to resign. Peter has been brought in as

interim chairman to lead the hospitals fight back to full health.

During the period of intensive care, the independent regulator monitor

is assessing whether the hospital has breached its terms of

authorisation. In extreme cases it can remove directors. Up-to-date

Andrew Lansley injected his views but can there be a hospital

revival? I talk to Andrew Lansley at the end of his visit to the

James Paget. I asked him how he now viewed the situation at a hospital.

In the midst of concerns that were raised by CQC, which need to be

addressed and perhaps were not just as quickly as they ought to have

been, and where the public and people in hospital - we need to be

very clear about persistent pursuit of quality in all circumstances -

we should not let that obscure the fact that patients here, like in

the wards I visited - at the stroke ward - are being looked after with

a very high clinical standards. What you think about the fact the

letter that was sent to you from an anonymous group of GPs actually

compared this to Mid Staffs Hospital which has had some very

serious problems? That letter was raised by an MP in the House. Has

this or not turned political? not about politics. It is about

being confident of the standards achieved in all circumstances. I

would not compare it with Stafford hospital. Then when things are

going wrong the hospital was in denial and patients were dying

because of the lack of appropriate care. The CQC was very clear it was

not a situation where patients today were at any risk of harm. It

is about leadership, about making sure that leadership at all levels

through the James Paget Hospital is able to give within the trust and

for the public be armed, an absolute assurance about the

pursuit of quality in all circumstances. -- and beyond.

chairman resigned yesterday. Does that go far enough? He is not in

charge of day-to-day running the hospital. He gave enormous service

to this hospital over the years. He should be thankful or he did for

hospital. We're in a place where, in the cause of the last few months,

it was clear the CQC were raising concerns. As they came back, they

were not clear that the response had been sufficient and the

leadership in terms of putting quality assurance in place had been

enough. Isn't that down to the chief executive and not the

chairman? The chair is the leader of the board. John, quite

appropriately, said it is my role to accept that responsibility. He

took that responsibility and he has resigned. It is not my job to

appoint a chair of a foundation trusts. I'm looking for there to be,

in that sense, a change of leadership. There are staff at the

James Paget Hospital who have demonstrated in the past and today

and in the future and are capable of delivering a high standard of

care. To have confidence in the chief executive of this hospital to

turn it around? -- do you have? had discussed it with stuff,

Patients representatives and others. They know there is a process to go

through. I am clear that the new leadership, starting with the chair,

needs to be in place to make sure they achieve that issuance for the

public of high standards across the trust consistently. -- assurance.

We're waiting for the outcome of the third inspection by the CQC.

Are you aware of what they have found? It is not for me to publish

it. They are an independent quality inspectorate. They feel they have

failed a third time. How long are you happy to wait?

responsibility is to tell not least Monitor and CQC about what I had

gleaned being hit, talking to people. As Secretary of State the

ultimate responsibility his mind. The immediate responsibility is

between CQC, Monitor and the board of James Paget Trust to discuss

what failings they have banned and to do that rapidly. Thanks to

everyone who has been in touch with us about this story. Remember, you

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to communicate with us. You can find us at facebook.com/lookeast. A

man who filmed himself riding his motorbike at nearly 150 miles an

hour has escaped jail. Robert Owens, who lives in Milton Keynes, was

given a suspended prison sentence of one year. He's been banned from

driving for five years. Peter Cooke was in court. Irresponsible,

idiotic and shameful. This motorbike rider's own admission a

day he was caught riding at speeds of up to 152 miles an hour around

Bletchley and Milton Keynes. The budget was all phoned by himself.

He had mounted a video camera on to his helmet. Police described the

driving as some of the most dangerous they had witnessed. He

was doing wheelies, riding on footpaths and weaving in and out of

traffic. We saw on some of the clips that he was doing wheelies in

between moving vehicles. It's only what had taken one person to panic,

it move their steering will a matter of inches and that would

have involved a collision with horrendous consequences. He was

caught up to load in the videos on to YouTube to boast about what he

had done. Officers received an anonymous tip and he was arrested.

He admitted to four accounts of dangerous driving, or committed

last April. He had the suspended sentence of 51 weeks. He deserved

no mercy and had escaped prison by a hair's breadth. If not for the

circumstances of his family he would have been behind bars this

evening. He has 10 points on his licence. The bike involved will now

be confiscated. Later on Look East, the classic BBC comedy, Steptoe &

Son, is brought to the stage in Milton Keynes. We've a preview,

plus an interview, with the show's creators, Ray Galton and Alan

Simpson. And Mike has been to meet a man, who has been called a

national hero. If you have been watching Educating Essex, you will

know exactly who this man is. I will tell you all about him and the

series. That is coming up after more news from your part of the

We have already heard about problems at the James Paget

Hospital tonight. But there is trouble too at Ipswich Hospital.

That's according to the Suffolk MP, Dr Dan Poulter. New figures reveal

the hospital is spending millions of pounds on agency staff, after

struggling to attract new consultants. Amelia Reynolds has

more. She is in our newsroom now. �6.7 million is demand Ipswich

Hospital spent on agency staff Lustig compared with just over �0.5

million the previous year. Essential key services at Ipswich

Hospital have been lost. Therefore specialist consultants have gone

elsewhere to work. Agency staff have been brought in to plug the

gap. One local MP says it has left the hospital with a large bill and

also with low staff morale. We understand there are calls for the

chief executive to resign. hospital is spending �6.7 million

on locum and agency staff. They are making other permanent staff

redundant and asking them to reapply for jobs. Staff are not

happy and that will affect morale and patient care. What has the

hospital said? The chief executive said a significant amount on that -

- that money were spent on one consultant grades. He goes on to

say, a consultant locums were required because of some hard to

acute specialities matinee. The hospital was extremely unlucky that

that should -- with episodes of Cygnus last year. A former Labour

minister, who apologised for patronising a Norwich MP over her

age, has now accused her of misleading parliament. Fiona

MacTaggart used the banned phrase in the Commons this afternoon. She

had just apologised for her earlier remarks about 29-year-old Treasury

Minister Chloe Smith. Will he ask her to come back here and

apologised to the House for misleading it when she claimed that

unemployment under the last government had reached 30%? I would

draw the attention of my right honourable friend to this exchange

and ask her to write to the Honourable Lady, clarify the use of

the figures and justify any figure she used in the chamber. --

clarifying. The Justice Minister has been in Suffolk to see how the

new policy of mediation is working in divorce cases. The law has just

been changed and it means that any couple splitting up must consider

mediation before resorting to court action. Would that make a

difference? This is how the Government wants to see divorces

handled. Not in the courts but through face-to-face negotiation.

This one is being staged for the cameras. For many people it is less

stressful and expensive and there is plenty of demand. In the last

year this law firm in Suffolk has received 1000 referrals. If you had

three meetings and a summary and the plan, the overall cost of the

�500 to �600. Legal costs can be thousands of pounds so it makes

good sense. She was wanting full custody and there was no way hours

going to give that up. Tony has just finished mediation after

spitting out with his partner. time something needed to be

arranged, it was ended in arguments. She did not want to speak to me and

I did not want to speak to her. Now we get on and up agreeing things.

His mum and me have long conversations. I need my space and

my privacy. The minister who changed the law came to its titch

to sit in on a stage mediation certain -- session. It is a more

simple, cost-effective way where people get together. It is an

empowering. They are deciding their own futures. The Minister is very

proud of the role he has played in pushing this legislation through.

He believes it will make a difference but not everyone is

happy. The Citizens Advice Bureaux said, while mediation will be

useful, it cannot take the place of proper legal advice. Splitting up

will not be completely trouble-free nor Campaigners fighting plans to

dump nuclear waste near their village have lost their High Court

challenge. Villagers at King's Cliffe near Peterborough say the

waste would pose a serious health risk. They challenged the

Government's go-ahead for the dumping of low-level waste. But the

High Court ruled there was nothing wrong with the decision. It is now

12 years since the BBC sports presenter, Helen Rollason, died

from cancer. But the fundraising goes on. Today Sir Trevor Brooking

officially opened a new research centre at the Broomfield Hospital

in Chelmsford. An icon of the beautiful game. Today football duty

is put to one side. The former England star is on hand to do the

honours in Chelmsford. You need support for friends and have a deal

with it. If you can do that on a local basis, it makes a bid defence.

Set up by the Helen Rollason charity, she was one of the first

women to present sport on the BBC. In 1999, she died of breast cancer.

She was 43. Today her legacy continues. It is fantastic in as

much as it is exclusive. You come through a treatment and it is done

quickly. There is no waiting like there would be in a hospital. There

are dedicated parking places. patients a week will be seen here.

Not only will the site treat cancers but it is also involved in

clinical drug trials. There will be more focus on Phase 2 trials.

Particular patients who have no other standard treatment available.

These patients have to go all the way down to London, Cambridge,

became a habit here locally. centre will help patients from

across less -- Essex. With the formalities over, said Trevor still

had time to meet some West Ham fans. You are watching Look East from the

BBC. Coming up: Harold and Albert Every year there are TV programmes

that sneak in under the radar and become big hits. This year it has

been Educating Essex - a fly on the wall series about the Passmores

Academy in Harlow. Tonight is the last in the series. So, it is the

last time we'll see the star of the show, Mr Drew. He has been called a

national hero. Mike Liggins has been to meet him. Come on, guys, a

nice straight line. Do not stop. Assistant head at the Academy in

Harlow, and start of Educating Essex. At this school in Essex, 160

students are in their final and most important year. They are

teenagers. Oh, my God! Emotional. Excitable. Filmed by 65 remote

cameras over seven weeks, it is a warts and all looked at a live in a

modern secondary schools. Overall I was happy with it. -- look. What

this pie? Where did it come from? Most of the pupils featured in the

programme have moved on. Kieran, the lad he wanted time off school

to write a novel, is still here and so was Gabby, who was involved in

the text bullying episodes. People recognise me. Someone asked for an

autograph. I did not know what to save. Just say, yes. It was so

surprising. People were saying, you are famous. Series two? Absolutely

not. That is the way we are. That is the way we behave. In a second

series we would not be the same. We had been on BBC Breakfast, we have

done lots of things. We know how it works. We would not be quite the

same fulls stop it is now in a brand new building. -- quite the

same. Where are we going? Art. The artistic. He says there will not be

another series. But, in TV, we never say never. And there is an

extended interview with Mr Drew on our Facebook page. You can find it

at facebook.com/lookeast. Milton Keynes has scored a bit of a coup

this week by staging a live performance of the classic comedy,

Steptoe and Son. Tonight's opening performance is being attended by

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Galton and Simpson are the creative force

not just behind Steptoe, they have also worked with Tony Hancock,

Frankie Howerd and Les Dawson, to name just a few. Mike Cartwright

caught up with them at the Chrysalis Theatre just a few

minutes ago. You have not seen the play. What are you hoping for?

have not seen the play but the adaptations are very good. I see no

reason why it should not go well. We are keeping our fingers crossed.

If they do go well, we're hoping other amateur groups will take up

the flag around the country and used the same adaptations. Why do

you think step to struck such a chord with the public? Because it

was so miserable, I suppose. That was the key thing about it. Unlike

most comedies, it had a very dark, black inside to it. People could

relate to that. If it were not for their own family, someone else's

family. They knew this couple were doomed fulls dog where did the idea

come from? -- doomed. We were made an offer. The offer has not be made

before and will never be made again. He said we could do what we like.

You can write what you like, cast would you like, be in it if you

like, produce it if you like. I want you to do this and keep my

title. Two rag and bone men. I thought it was a silly idea and did

not even think it was an idea until about three hours later. We sat

there trying to think about something. Out of desperation, I

said, what about those rag-and-bone men? We had to do something. We had

no plot but no story, nothing. We sat there and wrote, first rag-and-

bone man, second rag-and-bone man. We wrote about 11 pages - half the

show - just having an argument. We did not know who they were, what

their relationship was. We stopped. There had to be an ending and a

plot. That is when we hit on an idea of being father and son. That

A big load to the west of us. Areas of rain are moving up from France.

Very heavy rain in some places. You can see this cloud. One or two

bright intervals. The heaviest rain developed over southern England and

then moved up through the west of the region. It is moving away

northwards. Some showers in Essex are capable of producing thunder

and heavy rain. The rainy weather will become more extensive in the

east and moving westwards once more. All in all a mild and wet night

which will be rather breezy to begin with. Temperatures, because

of all this going on, not that load - ten Celsius. The winds in the

West will become quite light by morning. The last of the rain will

move away. Not long before we see heavy showers developing. Some will

be heavy enough to give torrential rain in places and the odd rumble

of thunder. To be just a mile up to 16, 17 Celsius, in the warmer spots.

-- temperatures up. In the second part of the afternoon the showers

should fade away. That is good news for any bonfire parties tomorrow

night. By the weekend it looks as though we will have some unsettled

weather which could bring us some rather keen north-easterly winds.

Quite a lot of cloud and drizzle the rain. Not ideal bonfire weather

but it does look as though things could hopefully become a little bit

drier in the east of the region at least, on Saturday evening. Despite

being very unsettled, we could get away with two half decent but soggy

Bonfire Night. High pressure built next week. The temperatures were

not for much so no cold nights on offer. 994 millibars on the