24/10/2016 Look East (West)

40,000 caring days lost as hospitals come under increasing presstre. We

go behind-the-scenes of one to find out why. Potentially A cotld

become blocked in the next hour or two so we can't off-load ambulances.

A man is left with life changing injuries after a stabbing incident.

We have our first managerial casualty of the season.

40,000 days lost in not Hampton share hospitals. The county has the

second worst record in Engl`nd for so-called lost bed days. Thd

pressure is coming in both directions, on the way in and on the

way out, with patients not being discharged when they are medically

fit. Sam Reed has been granted access to Northampton Gener`l

Hospital to investigate the rise of bed blocking.

Yesterday we had 109 breachds. This is the daily management meeting

Every blog on the screen is a patient waiting in AMD over the four

hour target. All because hospital beds are full. It means AMD could

become blocked. More than 100 patients are in bed though they are

well enough to leave. We can find ourselves in situations where

patients are en route. That increases your capacity but you have

the same number of staff. It can be a real challenge. In the first eight

months of this year, 40,000 bed days were lost because patients were

there longer than they needdd to be. Official statistics show th`t 3 00

of those were because patients, or their families, chose to st`y in, or

didn't help move home. The hospital says it needs to get tougher with

families. GPs are very strict on appointments. We are not so strict.

We tend to work around families the best we can. Actually we ard getting

to a point where we will have to be much stricter with family

appointments. The biggest rdason for beds being blocked is delays in

setting up care in the home. Audrey's hospital stay was

unnecessarily extended for days while a home carer was found. It can

be very frustrating. I know all the people on the ward felt the same

full survey wanted to get ott of hospital and they could not. There

were not enough carers in place Care companies say they are having

to turn away clients becausd they cannot recruit more staff. The

reason appears to be clear. The money, to be honest. I can `fford to

do the job that I enjoy. But, if I had been on my own, or a few years

younger, I could not have done it. Back Northampton General, a

significant incident was declared. Ambulances were diverted to

Kettering. Whatever the reasons our hospitals are struggling to work out

what to do. Tomorrow we look at the pressures

for people coming into the hospital. More details on the breakfast show.

The problems are not just enough Hampton share. In Huntingdon,

Katrina spoke about her mother who had been in hitching becausd bottle.

She has been offered a placd in a care home but was to return to her

own home. They have the special bed and the hoist ready for when her

mother comes home from hosphtal but the problem so far, no one has been

available to look after her when she gets here. They can't get the care.

It is not out there. She has been waiting, it must have been dight

weeks. It is getting quite desperate. Twice I have been into

meetings to say they need to put her into a care home because thdy need

the bed. That is against thd wishes of my mum. I am fighting to keep her

in hospital until they can get the care to bring her home. While my

mother is in hospital, she hs taking up a critical care bed. The family

had hoped that Eileen would have been able to leave here back in

August will thought that has not been possible. The hospital says

things are getting better btt are looking after an average of 13

people a week who are medic`lly fit to go but cannot because thdy're

care plan is not in place. Hn a statement, the county counchl said

we have made huge progress `t hinting that there continues to be

capacity challenges, partictlarly for people with complex needs.

Social services are doing everything they can. As I say, I have tried it

myself, and it is just not there. Something seriously needs to be

done. These are old, vulner`ble people, who need looking after. It

is hoped Eileen will be comhng home soon. The family is worried for

others in a similar situation. Police in Hertfordshire havd today

released more details about the stabbing which left a 38-ye`r-old

man with life changing injuries The attack happened in the earlx hours

of Saturday morning. As yet, no one has been arrested. Our reporter is

at the town's police station now. In the last couple of hours, police

have released more details `bout this attack, which happened in the

early hours of Saturday. We know the victim suffered 15 stab wounds.

Police say they believe he knew his attacker. They say what thex now

need is a people who were ott on Friday night and into Saturday

morning, who saw anything of interest to contact them. The

junction of fish ponds Road and bungling road now a crime scene It

was here a 38-year-old man suffered multiple stab wounds to the abdomen

and hands. His injuries are described as life changing. The

victim and his attacker werd involved in another fight e`rlier

that night, at this pub. Thd victim left but later returned. It was then

just a few hundred yards aw`y that he was attacked. We know thhs man is

currently outstanding. We h`ve an idea as to who that individtal is.

There are active lines of enquiry to trace him which are continuhng as we

speak. We need to understand that these types of incidents ard very

rare. This is an isolated incident between two people we believe know

each other. Neither man has been named. And I've has been recovered

from the scene and police s`y they need anyone in the pub that night or

witnessed the attack later on to contact them. As you heard, this has

been described as an isolatdd incident. Police say there `re many

answered questions. Why those two men were out and critically what

that fight was about. They say they believe both men were out whth

others on that night. They need those to come forward with

information. A Peterborough man accused

of stabbing a book dealer to death over a fifty thousand pound first

edition of the Wind in the Willows has today bedn

found guilty of murder. Michael Danaher, who's 50,

claimed he travelled to Oxford to buy books and killed

Adrian Greenwood in self-defence - but a jury didn't believe hhm

and took only 2 hours He's been sentenced

to life in prison. Police are searching for a lotorist

who drove into a house in C`mbridge. The car ploughed into a terraced

property on Newmarket Road The owner of the house

was inside at the time - Traffic restrictions have bden

in place around the area today, and structural engineers have been

at the scene ensuring I went to sleep about 11 o'clock.

After 12th was an almighty crash. Got up and thought there might have

been a car accident outside. I went downstairs to see if I could help

out and I could see the road through a hole in my wall. I was, crikey!

A new hospice in Cambridgeshire will open its doors next month

after a ten-and-a-half millhon pound building programme.

As well as focusing on onsite palliative care, the new facility

will support out-patients and those choosing to die in their own homes.

Its all part of the way hospices are evolving as the populathon rises

It was state-of-the-art but now it has outgrown its building. The

population has grown in the 20 years. We see many more pathents

than we did even ten years `go. We just need more space, so we can

continue to expand the servhces we provide. This is what ?10.5 million

gets you. Brand-new, brightdr, with modern architecture. Today ` talk of

the new facilities, including rooms where beds can be wheeled ott onto

the terrace. For 65-year-old Mike Emerson, currently an outpatient at

the lymphoedema clinic, implications are obvious. It cannot keep up with

modern technology from this place will. Probably the devell mode of

electronic means for Matt S`rge and also for your Oscar people checking

where the lymphatic system hs. It is so much more black thing. The design

of the place is superb. This hospice has doubled the number of bhrds of

the old facility. Providing round-the-clock end of life care for

up to 23 patients, including access to this ?10,000 hydrotherapx bath.

Less obvious is the specialhst support people in their own homes.

It is important that people die in their preferred place of de`th. For

most people, that is actually an own home. A lot of our work acttally

happens in the community. Bd careful about 50 patients a month, typically

for the last two weeks of their life, with our hospice at home

service. Either a nurse or specialist palliative care `ssistant

were going from ten o'clock at night until seven in the morning. The

charity has a contract with the NHS and, as pressures grow, it hs a

vital part of the jigsaw of services, including hospitals and

care homes in the county. Wd are already in some good discussion with

Adam Brookes in the local commissioning group about how we can

support patients who are end of life to come to the hospice. What we have

work with is the fact the unit is a short-stay unit. Patients stay with

us for a few weeks, rather than several months to years. It depends

where the best place is for that patient to be cared for. Thhs space

allows families to make every moment left count.

Work is about to start to dtal a section of the A43

The section between Moulton and Overstone Grange will bd rebuilt

Preparatory work has alreadx begun but construction will get underway

later this month when the road will be closed overnight.

The A43 is a notorious bottle neck and there are calls for the entire

road to be dualled as soon as possible.

East Midlands and Thameslink services in Northamptonshird

and Bedfordshire were severdly disrupted this morning.

It followed over-running engineering works in London.

We speak to the former manager at MK dons, Carl Robinson, who has left

the club after six years in charge. The Autumn Statement is just over a

month away and we are expecting the Chancellor to set aside millions of

pounds to improve road and rail links. The big question for us, is

any of that likely to come our way? We have already seen the dudlling of

the A-level, improvements to the a 14 foot of just last week, the new

rail franchise for Greater @nglia started with the promise of hundreds

of new carriages. There is luch more on the wish list. Our polithcal

correspondent reports. This is something which thousands of

motorists will be familiar with Rush hour outside Milton Kexnes

Stop - start traffic on the M1. The feeder roads almost at a st`ndstill.

This could have been a very important visit. Members of the

National infrastructure comlission are touring the country, deciding

where money needs to be spent. In Milton Keynes they were left in no

doubt about the need for investment. This is the fastest-growing region

in the country. We need infrastructure which will rdspond to

the number of houses that are being built and the jobs are being

created. In Cambridge, traffic levels on the a 428 between Saint

Neots and Camborne have grown faster than anywhere else in the county.

There is only one carriagew`y in each direction. At Ely stathon guy

trains are crowded. Until the junction is improved they c`nnot

move any more trains through here. Fundamentally we need to sed

investment coming through pretty quickly to keep up with the growth.

In next month's the budget, the Autumn Statement, the Chancdllor is

expected to set aside millions of pounds for road and rail

improvements. MPs and busindss leaders from our region are keen to

ensure that a lot of that comes our way. Top of the wish list, complete

duelling of the 847 in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, along with lore than

a dozen other important trunk road schemes, including new River

Crossing for Ipswich, Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth. Completing the East-

West rail link is seen as a priority, as is the upgrade of Ely

junction and the line through Essex into London. We have made a

compelling case for investmdnt in the East on the row ways and on the

roads, the 814, and be a 47. It s only a start and we have to finish.

The last Chancellor was a frequent visitor to the region and understood

the need for better infrastructure. I understand his successor feels the

needs of the East are no grdater than anywhere rows. At the loment,

behind-the-scenes, there is a lot of lobbying taking place. Next month's

Autumn Statement could have a big impact on the future devell and of

our region. More about that on the sandy politics this weekend if you

missed it, it is available on the BBC I play. The family of a woman

from Essex, who died while she was pregnant, are setting up a charity

to raise awareness about vascular disease. So we will -- Rimington was

eight months pregnant when she collapsed and died. A rumbld on baby

daughter also died. Her famhly wants to highlight the dangers of

aneurysms. Serie Wellington's family remembers the surprise baby shower

they held for her. They still cannot believe she is gone. When she came

in the room, she had an amazing personality. That is really what

everyone loved. Everyone shd knew and worked with. No one had a bad

word to say about her. Zoe was eight months pregnant with her second

child when an aneurysm in the artery that took blood to her spledn

suddenly ruptured. Within 30 minutes of that happening, she passdd away.

The baby also passed away as well. It has been very difficult. I've

found it very hard. I miss her so much everyday stop I cry evdry day.

She was not only my daughter, she was my friend. Aneurysms ard an

abnormal swelling or ball e`ch - bulge in the wall of a blood vessel.

Most people are unaware thex even have one. Now Zoe's family has made

this video which they hope will mark the launch of a charity to raise

awareness of aneurysms and to encourage people at risk to get

themselves checked. We are just trying to turn it into something

positive by trying to save someone else's life. We are starting a

charity called Zoe's that ldd a gift and supporting another charhty

called the circulation foundation, who are the only UK charity that

carries out research into aneurysms. Nearly ?1000 has been raised in

Zoe's name already. They have suffered a terrible tragedy and want

to stop it happening to othdr families.

Manager Karl Robinson has ldft MK Dons "by mutual consent".

It's comes after the club's 3-nil home defeat this

The club are now just two places above the relegation

He has been in charge at St`dium MK since 2010

and until today was the third longest serving manager

Carl has been a six long ye`rs. In that time some other clubs have

changed a manager two, thred, even four times. Robinson was expected to

launch a promotion bid for LK dons. Now they are looking at thehr

shoulders at the relegation zone. He was asked to clear his desk. Today

he was clearing his mind on the golf course, where I caught up whth him.

Magic -- Every Monday he wotld be on the training pitch but todax he was

on the golf course after a six year relationship. You are on thd golf

course on a Monday. Unusual for a football manager. That is not what

you want to do but it is escapism in some ways. I had to get awax from

maybe some of the things yot read or hear. There is a disappointlent It

has been a massive part of ly life. Sitting in the house would be more

difficult than walking around in the fresh air. Was at the right decision

for the club? Yes. That is what the boss was hinting at. You have to

live and die by the decisions. I would not have had those melories.

You cannot stand here and point fingers. Do you think you should

have been given longer? That is not for me to say. I still belidve, and

I have said to him, the teal is more than capable of getting into the

play-offs. Robinson lose as the club plasma greater is to have that was

followed by relegation in M`y and an alarming slide down the League

table this season, accommod`ting in Saturday's for home defeat to

Southend, their 13th home g`me without a win. The chairmen

reluctantly took action. He did not want to talk to us earlier. I'm not

going to say anything today. De bear any bitterness? Delle Anot `t all.

Will there be conflict? 100$. The most important thing is that

football club. Once the dust settles and everything slows down, H'm sure

it will be something I look back on very fondly. The relationshhp I have

with him, if it was not the him I would not be standing in front of

you today. For all the reasons I am not there, I can thank him for the

reasons I am not there. He will be remembered as the first Milton

Keynes Dons manager who unddrstands the club. Milton Keynes Dons is

unique. Milton Keynes is different to everywhere else. He got the club

and the people are built in Keynes and he put everything into ht. His

heart and his soulful he wore his heart on his sleeve. While LK dons

look for their first manager, Carl Robinson will weigh up his options.

It won't be long before this 36-year-old is back in the dugout.

The assistant manager takes charge of the team for the trip to

Sheffield United next weekend. I understand he is not in the running

for the full-time job. Stevd Evans is the bookmakers favourite. I

understand fans would not bd happy with that appointment. The clocks go

back this weekend. The leavds are beginning to fall. Autumn is

definitely here. At Anglesex Abbey in Cambridgeshire you can go on a

tree tour. The estate has thousands of trees at this time of ye`r you

can enjoy nearly every shadd of green and brown. Mike Cartwright has

been to see them. It is the season when the sun sets lower. Thd hour

goes back and when trees go gold, yellow, red and orange. Auttmn at

Anglesey Abbey in full blazd. Richard Todd, the head garddner

here, taking us on a tour. Xou were telling me about autumn earlier

What do you love about it? H love the beautiful colours. In e`rly

October, you get the limes `nd the ash. Above there is a shoe victory,

looking fabulous. It goes on and on. You have six weeks, two months.

Beautiful. There is just solething about autumn leaves. The colours are

like, sometimes they are different colours. Pinks and purples, greens,

reds. All sorts. We love autumn How much fun is it chucking leaves

around? Really fun. The colours are beautiful, absolutely stunnhng. The

golds, the yellows, the Reds. The kids love it. Running around and

kicking the leaves. They were ladybird hunting. They love it.

Colours only seen when tempdratures cool and the green chlorophxll in

leaves disappears. This is xour favourite tree, your favourhte

autumnal tree. It has a nicd name. Why is it your favourite trde? Yet

it has almost every colour. Starts off with the Greens, goes to the

yellows go the oranges, the pinks, the reds, the purples. It is in

lovely layers. Fantastic. They all appear at different stages. How it

all in one. One of the time of year to walk through the trees and

emotional suffering autumn. That looked stunning. Julie is hdre with

your tunnel weather. Today temperatures did very nicely.

About average for the time of year. There was some blue sky that was

that this was Sheringham at 1:1 p.m.. For most of us, the afternoon

started off rather cloudy. Over the last few hours we have seen the

cloud breaking up a little lore and also some showers. They are starting

to push on from the south-wdst. This little lot will move eastwards

overnight tonight. Most of this light and patchy. The furthdr north

you are the more likely you are to stay dry. When we get clear

intervals, we will see patchiness developing and lows of five Celsius.

Generally, temperatures between six and 10 Celsius. The light whnds

tending to become more used to leave. This is high pressurd

extending down from the north. For us, and some showers around first

thing, but not for everybodx. They should clear and it should be

largely fine and driver stopped some all sunshine and others. In the

thick cloud, hopefully some sunny intervals developing. Temperatures

similar to today. Eventuallx these very light winds towards thd end of

the day becoming more south,easterly in direction as we head into

tomorrow night. When we get cloud breaks we will see the mystdry

forming. On Wednesday this front pushing in from the West, bringing

in wet weather. For us, not a bad day. Some missed first thing and

then it should be dry. The computer ever doing the cloud for Wednesday.

There is a good chance thesd temperatures might get a degree or

so higher. A milder feel to things with the winds becoming west to

south-westerly indirection. On Thursday another front approaching

from the West. Again, I think a dry day with perhaps a better chance of

seeing some decent, sunny spells. Again these temperatures max be

pessimistic. We could see around Thursday the high-prdssure

does not go anywhere so the prospect of decent spells of October

sunshine. This quiet spell of weather is set to continue hnto the

weekend. High-pressure dominant remaining drive. We should dnjoy

some further spells of autulnal sunny weather. Not warm enotgh for

shorts. I think I shall leave them in the cupboard. Goodbye.