05/01/2017 Look East

Hello and welcome to the Look East late news.

Clare Panniker's the first in the country to be in charge

the handpainted house that took more than 40 years to decorate.

and another frost expected tonight with the risk of freezing fog

patches. I will have a full weather forecast for you later.

It's been confirmed today three hospital trusts in Essex

are under the control of one chief executive.

Clare Panniker already runs the trusts in Basildon and Thurrock,

Mid Essex, which includes Broomfield hospital, and now she's added

Clare Panniker is used to taking on a challenge. Over the past five

years, she has taken over the running of not one but two failing

Basildon was in special messages when she became the boss in 2012.

Two years later, it was rated as good byt the CQC.

inadequate and services were unsafe, but in its latest CQC report, it was

told health care was good. News of Clare Panniker's appointment at

She has been heading up a so-called success regime,

exploring how all three hospitals can work more efficiently together.

We know health and care in Essex has to change. There will be concerns,

it is a big job being responsible for three hospitals

and what we could consider being the most

important thing is this presents an opportunity to look at whether

services, acute services, can be improved through that combined

as NHS services in Essex, like elsewhere in the region, are being

reorganised. What is happening generally around the country is

increasingly organisations working more closely together, they

recognise the impact on one health organisation, whether that be a

hospital or community group or a groups of GPs has an impact

makes sense to collaborate and work together to try and get the best for

A bit like a super head brought in to help failing schools,

Clare Panniker is the country's first chief executive

It is a big job as all three hospitals are struggling

Earlier this evening I spoke to Clare Panniker and put it to her,

one boss, three hospitals was just a way of saving money.

No, it is not all about saving money.

In fact, we don't think we will save huge amounts of money

by sharing our management in this way, because we do need to have

good, strong local management as well as a shared executive team

That said, we don't want it to cost more either,

but it is a way of making sure that we've built on the success we have

had today, of the three hospitals working together.

This is the first time this has been done, no one has held

a position like this before, in charge of three

I mean, how big a challenge do you think this is going to be

It's certainly going to be a challenge, I don't

underestimate that at all, but it is not unprecedented.

The difference here is we are doing it with three separate boards

as opposed to one board across multiple sites

and we deliberately chose not to go through a merger route at this

stage, so we could focus on delivering

But there will be patients and staff that may be concerned that

you are going to be spreading yourself too thinly.

Yes, I think that is a very understandable concern,

but on a day to day basis, there are people on the ground

who are focusing on the delivery of the operational and financial

This is not about me and a few people trying to do everything.

It's about aligning the strategic direction and providing that

overview to make sure we make sensible decisions on behalf

of the three hospitals and the populations that we serve.

Meanwhile, the health service right across the region continues

It's felt across the board, from GP surgeries to 111 call

Ian Barmer is at the Longwater ambulance station in Norfolk now.

Here is an example, the record-breaking demand for Ambulance

Services over Christmas. The control room is handled 4060 calls and

across the East, that is 800 calls more than last year but the

Ambulance Service is just one part of a very big chain as Rob Lee

Westwood ports. This morning, eight ambulances

were queueing outside Colchester Part of sister Emma Carter's

job is to find beds She does this while

checking on patients. Lynn was rushed in after having

an anaphylactic action. I felt so bad because as I came

of the ambulance, there were queues I just really did feel awful

because I could hear people crying. It has been extremely busy,

definitely the busiest in the five The Chief Executive says the whole

care system needs to work closely We have just about got

through without any major Unless we do that and we do it

urgently, what we look forward to, I think, would really worry me

in terms of our ability to manage. All of the hospitals in the east

experienced high levels In the norfolk, the NHS nonemergency

phone advice centre received 27,000 There does not appear to be any sign

of it letting up and the This morning, Dr Simon Rutland has

had contact with 40 patients. The pressures that colleagues

are flacing are enormous so we need We are changing what we do

but we need to make sure Back at Colchester Hospital,

more patients are arriving With a cold winter forecast,

the current pressure It's worth reiterating, we have not

had any severe weather yet this winter. If that happens, the

pressure on the GPs, A will undoubtedly crank up.

Next tonight, the terraced house untouched since Victorian times.

It was owned by David Parr who inspired by

He spent more than 40 years of his life decorating

A ?600,000 grant will now ensure that it's restored and can be

But inside it is still very much the 1890s.

This house has been in the Parr family unchanged for well over

a century, but until recently, few people knew what treasures

Let me show you into the drawing-room.

If we look over here, you can see the walls,

which are all hand-painted and which he painted in 1912,

The ceiling, which he painted in 1903, but he really did try

David Parr made his living decorating grand buildings

like stately homes and churches, but he also spent more than 40 years

painting his own house in a similar style.

If you needed to spend a penny here, even in 1893, there was no need

to go outside because David Parr installed this toilet, which was

The property is now owned by a trust and has been awarded ?625,000

by the Heritage lottery fund so it can be renovated

There are issues here, there is damp coming through,

paint peeling and we wanted to stop that happening so that we can

It will be two years before this house is fully restored.

Visitors will then be able to get a glimpse into a world long gone.

Coming up now the weather with Alex, but from the rest of the late team.

Another cold night tonight, some of us already below freezing. Another

hazard is freezing fog patches that may linger. Across the coast,

staying above freezing but elsewhere, -1, miners to Celsius.

The high pressure that is keeping things settled will be pushed away

tomorrow as this weather system comes in from the West. There will

be some fog around first thing, but ultimately milder weather coming our

way for the weekend. As that weather system pushes in, increasingly

amounts of cloud, a cold day, four or five Celsius, and by the end of

the day, some and patchy rain. The outlook and it is a milder forecast

for the weekend but it will stay creeping up by a notch or two, 10,

maybe nine Celsius. Here is Louise with the national picture.

Won't it cold and frosty this morning? The coldest night of the

winter so far in England. Down to minus 8 Celsius.