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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. |