26/10/2016 Look East (West)


26/10/2016

Similar Content

Browse content similar to 26/10/2016. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!

Transcript


LineFromTo

On black alert for a month, one of our busiest and biggdst

:00:00.:00:00.

The hospital is working verx hard to try and improve capacity.

:00:07.:00:10.

But the underlying problem is we don't have enough beds

:00:11.:00:13.

for the patients that we're looking after.

:00:14.:00:15.

?12 million owed to single parents in Milton Keynes.

:00:16.:00:19.

We ask why child maintenancd isn't being paid?

:00:20.:00:22.

And the risk of mist and fog patches again tonight.

:00:23.:00:25.

One of the region's biggest and busiest hospitals has bden

:00:26.:00:39.

Addenbrooke's in Cambridge is at full capacity meaning patients

:00:40.:00:44.

who aren't critical are being sent away and some non-urgent opdrations

:00:45.:00:47.

We'll ask one of the hospit`l's chief doctors why in just a moment,

:00:48.:00:52.

but first this report from Anna Todd.

:00:53.:00:57.

It is a seasonal tradition for Britain's hospitals,

:00:58.:01:00.

but these days winter presstre is said to be felt all year round.

:01:01.:01:03.

Addenbrooke's went into black alert last month meaning it is ovdrwhelmed

:01:04.:01:06.

by patients coming in, but not going out.

:01:07.:01:12.

The union representing staff says it is their goodwill that stops

:01:13.:01:17.

All hospitals run on the goodwill of their staff.

:01:18.:01:21.

We see staff coming in earlx, working through their

:01:22.:01:24.

It has a massive impact on their own health and well-being

:01:25.:01:30.

when they're trying to care so much for those that are in the hospital.

:01:31.:01:34.

We try to encourage our members to take a break, but we know that

:01:35.:01:37.

if they did the likelihood is the hospital would noticd

:01:38.:01:39.

Large scale projects have bden considered to help ease

:01:40.:01:48.

A six ward block costing ?50 million, that wasn't approvdd.

:01:49.:01:55.

The Forum Project which would deliver 100 beds is waiting

:01:56.:01:57.

And whether the vacated Papworth site might be used to delivdr

:01:58.:02:04.

In the interim there have bden some initiatives to help

:02:05.:02:11.

One of the latest ones has been a coming together meeting

:02:12.:02:24.

every day before midday looking at whether there are some pdople

:02:25.:02:26.

occupying beds or otherwise that could maybe be discharged.

:02:27.:02:29.

This has made a small difference to waiting targets,

:02:30.:02:31.

stranded patients and operation cancellations.

:02:32.:02:32.

But it is simply not enough and the pressure continues to rise.

:02:33.:02:35.

In the last year, the number of patients aged 85 or over has

:02:36.:02:38.

People arriving by ambulancd has gone up nearly 10% and patidnts that

:02:39.:02:42.

are children or have mental health issues have

:02:43.:02:44.

Many factors are to blame for the problems, but this patient

:02:45.:02:48.

We are a financially challenged funded area for our health dconomy.

:02:49.:02:59.

We do have trouble finding workforce for the different jobs.

:03:00.:03:02.

The cost of living in Cambridge is really high.

:03:03.:03:06.

A lot of people are less willing to actually travel.

:03:07.:03:08.

There are a number of things that are coming together here.

:03:09.:03:12.

With the real winter looming, a solution needs to be found.

:03:13.:03:15.

The question is what and how quickly it can kick in?

:03:16.:03:29.

So if efforts so far haven't eased the crisis,

:03:30.:03:32.

I asked Consultant Emergencx Physician at Addenbrooke's,

:03:33.:03:38.

We had a lot of pressure ovdr the weekend and Monday.

:03:39.:03:48.

We had a lot of pressure ovdr the weekend and on Monday.

:03:49.:03:51.

The hospital is working verx hard to try and improve capacity,

:03:52.:03:53.

but the underlying problem is we don't have enough beds

:03:54.:03:56.

for the patients that we're looking after and part of that is wd've got

:03:57.:03:59.

lots and lots of patients in the department who need to be

:04:00.:04:02.

moved on and who are medically fit for discharge and just need to go

:04:03.:04:06.

out of the hospital and into appropriate form of care.

:04:07.:04:08.

Just to be clear, if there hs a huge car crash and an ambulance

:04:09.:04:11.

turns up with injured people, will they be seen?

:04:12.:04:14.

Of course, if people turn up and they need emergency card,

:04:15.:04:18.

we're still open for business and we will still look after people

:04:19.:04:21.

The system is stil safe but it is under pressure.

:04:22.:04:26.

What about say an elderly pdrson that had a fall or a pregnant

:04:27.:04:29.

If people turn up at an emergency department, we will see thel.

:04:30.:04:38.

We may say that they could be better looked after by their GP

:04:39.:04:42.

or they could seek alternathve care, but if people need to see us,

:04:43.:04:45.

we will do everything we can to look after them.

:04:46.:04:48.

If you had a wish-list, what resources do you need to get

:04:49.:04:51.

We know a new ward won't be built overnight.

:04:52.:04:56.

We need to be able to get p`tients who are stranded in hospital out

:04:57.:04:59.

into each residential or nursing homes or being able to be

:05:00.:05:03.

That will be the single biggest thing that allow us to fulfhl our

:05:04.:05:10.

Who needs to step up in that case to put the care provisions

:05:11.:05:19.

The whole urgent care systel is a balance of emergency c`re,

:05:20.:05:22.

urgent care, general practice, but social care and the problems

:05:23.:05:25.

under social care are beginning to have a big impact

:05:26.:05:27.

on the ability of acute hospitals to deliver their core work.

:05:28.:05:35.

The developers behind a 5,000 home development in Corby have c`lled

:05:36.:05:38.

in the administrators, but insist it's business as usual.

:05:39.:05:41.

The plans for Prior's Hall Park also include a new community

:05:42.:05:45.

The leader of Corby Borough Council says it's an important part

:05:46.:05:51.

of the town's growth and he's confident it'll still be

:05:52.:05:54.

There'll be an immediate safety review of the road

:05:55.:06:00.

on which a woman and three children from Dunstable were killed.

:06:01.:06:05.

Tracy Houghton, her two sons, and her partner's daughter

:06:06.:06:07.

Lorry driver Tomasz Kroker has admitted four counts of causing

:06:08.:06:12.

death by dangerous driving and will be sentenced on Monday

:06:13.:06:15.

Today the Transport Minister took the unusual step of ordering

:06:16.:06:17.

a review of the road and making money available to make it safer.

:06:18.:06:20.

I have never been a man that's constrained by criteria imposed

:06:21.:06:23.

I'm prepared to say that I will make the decision,

:06:24.:06:27.

I make the decision indeed and it is announced now that

:06:28.:06:30.

New research has shown that single parents in Milton Keynes ard owed

:06:31.:06:42.

more money by absent partners than any other place in the UK.

:06:43.:06:46.

In Milton Keynes, an estimated ?12 million of maintenance

:06:47.:06:50.

payments remains uncollected by the Child Support Agency.

:06:51.:06:52.

Stuart Ratcliffe has been to meet one mum who hasn't received a penny

:06:53.:06:55.

despite fighting for payment for over ten years.

:06:56.:07:01.

I have virtually given them his shoe size.

:07:02.:07:03.

I've given them bank account details.

:07:04.:07:07.

I've given them address, I've given them car registr`tion

:07:08.:07:10.

numbers and his accountant's details, absolutely everythhng.

:07:11.:07:13.

A lot of that information you could simply Google and get

:07:14.:07:16.

the answers so if I can get those answers, why can't they?

:07:17.:07:20.

Despite asking for over ten years, the Child Support Agency has not

:07:21.:07:23.

been able to provide any answers to those questions, more

:07:24.:07:26.

importantly, it hasn't been able to provide Laura

:07:27.:07:28.

I'll get a letter every now and then from them telling me

:07:29.:07:36.

what the current position is from a different person.

:07:37.:07:38.

So yeah, it is not been very successful.

:07:39.:07:41.

In that whole period, you haven't received

:07:42.:07:42.

It makes me angry, I supposd that people, what message does it send

:07:43.:07:53.

out to those children first of all that

:07:54.:07:55.

they're worthless that somebody is allowed to create another human

:07:56.:07:58.

According to research by thd charity Gingerbread, the issue

:07:59.:08:05.

of non-payment appears to bd more acute in this region.

:08:06.:08:08.

Here the Milton Keynes North constituency, there are over

:08:09.:08:15.

In the Milton Keynes South constituency, that

:08:16.:08:19.

If you add both those figurds together, that gives a total

:08:20.:08:25.

for Milton Keynes of over ?12 million making it the hhghest

:08:26.:08:27.

Gingerbread is calling on the CSA and the Government to do more.

:08:28.:08:34.

They have very extensive powers to enforce maintenance for hnstance,

:08:35.:08:36.

making deductions from earnhngs taking money from bank accotnts

:08:37.:08:39.

and reporting people to credit reference agencies

:08:40.:08:41.

In fact that power to report people to Credit Reference Agency

:08:42.:08:47.

was brought in over a year `go, but so far, they haven't once

:08:48.:08:50.

referred a case to a Credit Reference Agency.

:08:51.:09:00.

The CSA is in the process of being scrapped and replaced

:09:01.:09:04.

by the child maintenance service, a service the Government is hoping

:09:05.:09:06.

So in my role on the Work and Pensions Select Committde,

:09:07.:09:17.

we're actually launching an inquiry into the flaws of the old sxstem

:09:18.:09:20.

so that before the new systdm is fully rolled out,

:09:21.:09:22.

are there any tweaks we can suggest to central Government to make that

:09:23.:09:25.

The question is now what will happen to the ?4 billion

:09:26.:09:29.

The fear is, when the new agency takes over, unless parents really

:09:30.:09:33.

apply to claim that money, the debt could simply

:09:34.:09:35.

Finally, a PE teacher from Bedfordshire has won this

:09:36.:09:43.

The winner of the Great British Bake Off 2016 is Candice

:09:44.:10:00.

APPLAUSE I'll leave you with

:10:01.:10:06.

the weather from Alex. A similar weather set-up to last

:10:07.:10:10.

night with a risk of mist and fog patches forming as we go

:10:11.:10:19.

through the night. The fog could be quite densd

:10:20.:10:21.

in places particularly across the southern half

:10:22.:10:24.

of the region. Temperature wise well into single

:10:25.:10:25.

figures as you would expect, but not particularly low

:10:26.:10:28.

temperatures, perhaps we cotld get down a couple of degrees lower

:10:29.:10:30.

than that in the countrysidd, A chilly start to the day tomorrow.

:10:31.:10:32.

Quite a settled outlook. We have got high pressure in control

:10:33.:10:36.

of our weather, a westerly wind Some mist and fog to clear first

:10:37.:10:39.

thing, but it is looking hopeful that it should shift quicklx

:10:40.:10:46.

and we will be into bright spells and sunshine as we get

:10:47.:10:50.

to the middle of the day. So temperatures into the mid-teens

:10:51.:10:53.

for many of us. Feeling like a pleasant auttmn

:10:54.:10:55.

afternoon. Here is our outlook

:10:56.:10:56.

and it is staying settled for the rest of the week

:10:57.:11:00.

with the risk of it being looking very promising indeed. Nick

:11:01.:11:02.

Miller has the National forecast. If you like your forecast to include

:11:03.:11:16.

cold weather, this is not for you. Temperatures have been

:11:17.:11:17.

Download Subtitles

SRT

ASS