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That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me and on | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The leading consultants who are leaving hospitals in East Yorkshire | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
because of bullying and intimidation. | :00:12. | :00:22. | |
When you have nurses crying, the motivated people who walk at the | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
drop of a hat, it has to say something. | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
The MPs who say overseas aid should be used for projects closer to home. | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
Accusations of a heavy`handed approach as the police arrive | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
Police deny campaigners? claims that there were 100 officers | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
And the school children from Cleethorpes getting ready to | :00:44. | :01:03. | |
I will be back later with the forecast for tomorrow and we can. | :01:04. | :01:19. | |
One the country's leading heart surgeons has become the latest | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
senior figure to leave the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust amid | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
He and another doctor, who has also recently resigned have | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
taken the unusual step of speaking out in public to criticise | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
the culture of bullying, which they say is plaguing the trust. | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
Other consultants have privately told BBC Look North the same story. | :01:39. | :01:46. | |
Health managers insist they are trying to tackle the problem. | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
Vicky Johnson has been investigating. | :01:49. | :01:57. | |
Dr Farqad Alamgir is renowned as one of the country's | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
Last year, he was made an MBE for services to cardiology, but this | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
week he has resigned from his job in | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
People in senior management talking to you about bad behaviour will | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
carry bad consequences and then you start wondering what is | :02:17. | :02:27. | |
Is it bad behaviour if you stand up for something and say there | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
People were talking about this, the word bullying | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
In his letter of resignation, Dr Alamgir speaks of the fear | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
and intimidation which he claims is now widespread among clinicians. | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
doctors and consultants who have left the trust within the past year, | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
saying they simply can't work in the current atmosphere. | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
Consultant gynaecologist Wendy Noble, packing up | :02:55. | :02:55. | |
Three years ago, the hospital trust settled out of court when | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
One of the reasons for her resignation now is the poor | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
I was really concerned about the quality of training, the quality | :03:06. | :03:14. | |
of care we were able to deliver, and I raised my serious concerns. | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
Once again, it was just pooh`poohed, it was suggested I had ulterior | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
motives to try to destabilise the unit by my manager. | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
The Care Quality Commission, the health watchdog, raised these issues | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
in its recent report, demanding that the trust must investigate why some | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
staff feel they are bullied, or feel pressured to undertake additional | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
hours, putting the need to meet targets above patient care. | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
The focus was not on the patients. The focus was on figures, numbers. | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
If you were not part of that, you felt you had let down the | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
organistaion, which isn't what should happen. | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
You would go to a meeting, you would get two or three vocal people saying | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
this isn't good enough, and everyone else is burying their noses in their | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
paperwork, because if they ever put their head above the parapet, they | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
get picked on, and they've decided they want to go for a quiet life. | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
And that's what happened at Mid`Staffordshire. | :04:15. | :04:15. | |
Unions claim bullying is rife across all departments. | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
People come to work, they get their pay ` that's how it should work. | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
They should not go home feeling stressed or hurt or sick because of | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
the way they've been treated by their managers. There are a lot of | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
good managers there, but there are still some bullies, and we need to | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
Ian Philp, the Trust's medical director, admits the bullying | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
culture is a concern but insists they are | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
We cannot change the culture overnight but we can do some things | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
quickly, and we have to demonstrate to staff that when they raise | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
concerns, that we investigate them and we will deal with them and staff | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
will not be treated punitively for raising concerns. | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
They will be thanked for raising concerns. | :04:53. | :05:03. | |
They're leaving their families and taking their many years | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
of experience, not just away from this area, | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
I'm joined now by the MP for Hull North Diana Johnson. | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
What is your view on what is going on within the trust? I am concerned | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
about patient care and patient safety. It is very disappointing to | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
hear these doctors are leaving, with all the experience. I think the sea | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
QC identified there was a problem with bullying in the trust, and I | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
had a meeting with inspectors to try to understand that. They clearly | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
have a job to do to root out this bullying culture, because it is | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
unacceptable. I talked to the chief executive this afternoon, and he | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
reassured me steps are being put into place, but I think we need to | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
be talking to the trust more and find out they do bring the facts. | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
Unison has said staff are scared to speak out about bullying. If that is | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
the case, it will be very hard to get to the bottom of the problem. | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
That is shocking. I have the official speak this morning and say | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
he had never come across such an ingrained culture of bullying in his | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
career in the NHS, so it is deeply worrying. I will have a new chief | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
executive at the hospital soon, and his top priority has to be to sort | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
this out. It is really worrying for me, just as it is for the local MPs, | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
that our constituents may not be getting the care and standard of | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
care they deserve. One doctor told us this kind of culture is what | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
caused the problems at mid Staffordshire. Other problems in | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
Hull being taken seriously? I think the Care Quality Commission | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
identified there was a problem with bullying culture. I am not sure I | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
would say it is the same plasmid stuff Jeff. `` I am not sure I would | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
say it is the same as mid Staffordshire. Urgent action is | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
needed, though. Would you be worried if you are going into the hospital? | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
I think there is a great deal of excellent care in our NHS in Hull. I | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
think there is a problem about bullying and that needs to be rooted | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
out. I have every confidence the NHS can sort this out. Diana Johnson, | :07:37. | :07:53. | |
thanks very much. If you want to be in touch, here are the details. | :07:54. | :08:04. | |
Preparing for the Tour de France to arrive ` | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
now there's a promise of another major cycling race for Yorkshire. | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
A number of Tory MPs from East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire say | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
they'll oppose plans to increase the amount of taxpayers' money which | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
The Government wants to enshrine into law the amount that is spent | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
But some MPs say the money would be better spent helping | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
At this warehouse on the outskirts of Beverley, | :08:32. | :08:41. | |
the East Yorkshire based charity Jacob's Well is preparing to send | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
The charity's chief executive ` retired GP Beryl Beynon ` | :08:46. | :08:56. | |
believes it's right that our government should help those | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
I think as British people we have always been held in that kind of | :09:00. | :09:13. | |
esteem that we would always be there to help people in need. I think the | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
main thing is that it is used for the poor and the sick and the | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
needy, not just for political purposes. | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
The Government is under pressure to ensure that no less than 0.7% | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
of our national income is spent on overseas aid. | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
That currently works out at ?11 billion a year. | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
The Department for International Development says that money is spent | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
on projects such as preventing an infection that causes blindness in | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
East Africa, making sure boys and girls go to school in Pakistan and | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
But some MPs are opposed to the Government putting | :09:42. | :09:56. | |
a legally binding figure on the amount its spends on overseas aid. | :09:57. | :10:09. | |
The Cleethorpes MP Martin Vickers has launched a petition on his | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
website asking whether voters would rather see foreign aid diverted to | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
Many people lobby me, urging me to support the knot at 7%. | :10:21. | :10:37. | |
It's an emotive debate, but when it comes to the way taxpayers' | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
money is spent, some still argue that charity should begin at home. | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
Kathleen Spencer Chapman is from Oxfam ` I asked her if the UK being | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
world leaders in sending overseas aid shows us as a caring nation or | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
Our aid saves millions of lives around the world. | :10:55. | :11:07. | |
Oxfam sees in our work every day the good British aid is doing | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
It is keeping children in school, preventing mothers dying | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
in childbirth, just to give a few examples. | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
In 2012, British taxpayers sent ?280 million in aid to India. | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
They launched a ?45 million rocket to Mars. | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
Do you still think that giving to India is a good idea? | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
About a third of the world's poorest people live in India, | :11:25. | :11:26. | |
and Oxfam is doing a lot of work in India with the Indian government | :11:27. | :11:35. | |
Why are we giving to a country that can afford to spend ?750 million of | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
British aid still has an important impact in India. | :11:41. | :11:49. | |
It is really helping make sure children are in school | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
and encouraging the Indian government to do a lot more. | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
People in this country are kindhearted. | :11:55. | :11:55. | |
But they don't understand why, when we have so many problems | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
at home, we're giving this amount of money in foreign aid. | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
Clearly, there are also people at home who | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
are struggling, and Oxfam also works to tackle poverty in the UK. | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
We don't think poor people anywhere, either in the UK or globally, | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
They don't understand why, when we have problems here, | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
?180 from every single person in this country goes abroad. | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
That money really does save lives, and Britain is still the seventh | :12:22. | :12:30. | |
richest country in the world, so we think it is completely possible for | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
the British government to be making sure poor people aren't suffering | :12:34. | :12:35. | |
We don't know what percentage of that money goes to ordinary people | :12:36. | :12:44. | |
in poverty or what percentage goes to firms or corrupt individuals. | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
We know the vast majority of that money reaches | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
Clearly, no system is 100% perfect, but in the UK, | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
if a hospital is failing, we don't stop funding the NHS. | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
The vast majority of that money is reaching the poorest people. | :12:56. | :13:13. | |
I would like your views on this. Should the amount spent on foreign | :13:14. | :13:28. | |
aid be fixed in lark? Get in touch if you have a view on this. `` fixed | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
in law. Police in Lincoln have asked | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
for two teenage girls to come forward, after a man died | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
following an attack in the city. 69`year`old Michael Broxholme was | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
the victim of a robbery on Friday evening near his home on | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
Hermit Street. Police have asked for two teenage | :13:47. | :13:47. | |
girls, who they believe helped Mr Broxholme immediately | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
after the attack, to contact them. A mother from Hull accused | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
of killing her two year old son when he drowned in a bath has been | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
giving evidence at her trial. Kerry Abel admitted taking | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
a number of prescription drugs on the night her son died but told | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
the court she didn't fall asleep. She denies the charges | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
of manslaughter and at times wept Simon Spark was in court | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
and sent this report. Kerry able about that court this | :14:09. | :14:26. | |
morning to give evidence for the first time in front of the jury `` | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
Kerry Abel. She is accused of manslaughter after her two`year | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
Robinson was found drowned in the bath. She admitted being a former | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
heroin addict. She admitted obtaining other drugs that were not | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
on prescription, but from other people 's prescriptions and from | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
friends. She said she took one drug to help with backache. The court had | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
to stop at one time because her evidence was incomprehensible as she | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
cried during the description of finding her son. She said he was | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
playing in eight inches of water with her toys, she stood up, she | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
felt dizzy, reached for the bathroom door handle and passed out. When she | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
came round, she found him lying in facedown and the water was much | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
higher. The prosecution told how she had lied repeatedly to police about | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
what Yorkshire had taken and when. They said, the truth is you took a | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
cocktail of drugs to get an effect from them, you fell asleep and your | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
little boy died. Today saw the end of the evidence. Kerry Abel denies | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
all charges against her. The summaries will begin in the morning. | :15:39. | :16:00. | |
Thank you for watching. Still ahead: Schoolchildren from Cleethorpes who | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
are going to perform on a world`famous stage. | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
I don't really feel the nerves. I feel excitement. You don't really | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
get nervous, you just play like there is no one out there. | :16:16. | :16:30. | |
Great story. Tonight's photograph. Thank you for that. | :16:31. | :16:39. | |
Keely Donovan is here, back from her trip to Glastonbury. | :16:40. | :16:48. | |
I can't imagine you roughing it in a tent. | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
You would have liked it. I think Dolly is your kind of gal. Long | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
blonde hair. You could share her fake tan, and she is the same kind | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
of age. Have you finished? | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
On with the forecast. It has been very warm today, up to over 23 | :17:08. | :17:16. | |
degrees in Hull. It will be a bit cooler tomorrow. There could be some | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
patchy rain for some of those. We have had more cloud spreading from | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
the North. It has made things quite mopey. Generally, the dry and mild | :17:29. | :17:41. | |
affair, with temperatures falling back to 15 or 16 degrees. The sun | :17:42. | :17:58. | |
will rise at 4:36 a.m.. Tomorrow, variable and at times large amounts | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
of cloud. A little bit of rain from the North. For the weekend, some | :18:05. | :18:29. | |
uncertainty but it looks like rain spreading through Friday and it | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
could still be with us through Saturday morning. On Sunday, fine | :18:33. | :18:43. | |
start to the labour few showers. `` also Dave I'd start to their day, | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
but a few showers. Potentially heavy rain later. | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
I had just been told she is 68, which is even older than me, so you | :18:54. | :18:54. | |
are in the doghouse. Residents living in an | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
East Yorkshire village are accusing Humberside Police of heavy handed | :19:00. | :19:01. | |
tactics as they escorted a convoy Rathlin Energy are carrying out | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
tests on land at West Newton Amanda White is live | :19:05. | :19:16. | |
near the site tonight . | :19:17. | :19:25. | |
They are perplexed. We have only just been able to get down here. | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
Officers were posted at the end of the lane, keeping the road closed | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
while Rathlin Energy has been doing exploratory drilling. The convoy | :19:35. | :19:47. | |
caused surprise, but the number of officers was met with disbelief. | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
It uses ultraviolet officers was met with disbelief. | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
It uses ultraviolet light. It is quite innovative technology. Well, | :20:00. | :20:16. | |
here are some of the pictures. They counted 64 vehicles moving through | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
new Ellerby. Rathlin Energy told is in a statement that although they | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
had been moving vehicles to try and minimise disruption in nearby | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
villages, because they had had some problems, Humberside police advised | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
them to move them in a large convoy because of safety. Purchasers told | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
is over 100 officers were involved in the operation `` protesters told | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
us. Humberside police said that is an exaggeration. They have not told | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
us how many officers were involved in the operation. They said they | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
were facilitating this peaceful protest. | :21:04. | :21:04. | |
Amanda, thank you. East Yorkshire might have missed out | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
on the Tour De France but the race organisers are now | :21:08. | :21:09. | |
promising a new annual cycling event It should attract the worlds best | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
cyclists and there could even be Well, over in West Yorkshire they | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
are preparing for this year's Tour De France and Paul Ogden is | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
in Otley for us tonight. So Paul can we expect to see the | :21:23. | :21:24. | |
likes of Chris Froome and Bradley Quite possibly, and why not? We have | :21:25. | :21:41. | |
a big cycling culture that we know and love in East Yorkshire. The | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
tours Britain has been hosted successfully in towns and East | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
Yorkshire, including the city of Hull. The man who can really answer | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
the question is the Chief Executive of the organisation which brought | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
the Tour de France broadly to Yorkshire, Gary Verity. Thank you | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
for this announcement. What can you tell is? We will work with our | :22:09. | :22:17. | |
friends over the next few months to agree the route, but the purpose is | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
to go to places where the Tour de France isn't going, so it would make | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
perfect sense if it went to Hull and parts of East Yorkshire, and parts | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
of the Yorkshire coast as well. We will work on the route with our | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
friends and partners over the next few months and make announcements in | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
the early autumn. Briefly, a three stage race? Yes, over the first | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
weekend in May next year and we want to put on a women's race as well. | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
This kind of passion, this will be coming to Yorkshire. Thank you very | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
much. In a word, what do you like about Yorkshire as a place to stage | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
this kind of event? It is gorgeous and there is passion for cycling and | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
love for the tour, so we're very happy. It will be massive. Thank | :23:10. | :23:23. | |
you. We had better get the potholes ironed out on the Humber Bridge. | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
Thank you very much. The Newton on Trent site will | :23:27. | :23:38. | |
provide more than 20 million litres of water every day. Anglian Water | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
says it's vital to maintain supplies as Lincoln continues to grow. | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
Thank you for getting in touch about cuts to legal aid. | :23:46. | :24:25. | |
19 youngsters from Cleethorpes travelled to the capital tomorrow | :24:26. | :24:39. | |
for a performance. Signhills Strings, 90 violinist from | :24:40. | :24:47. | |
six up to 18`year`old. They are rehearsing for performers the Royal | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
Albert Hall. They have worked incredibly hard to | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
get to where they have got to. Some have done it with me before. We are | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
quite spot. I started when I was about eight. My | :25:04. | :25:12. | |
vile and future has taught me so much. `` my violin teacher has | :25:13. | :25:23. | |
taught me so much. Although sometimes it can be a bit hard, you | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
just work through it. It is fun. The top group, the older ones, they play | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
all the way through it and they did the backing and everything. The | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
younger ones get to play quite a lot as well. We're playing sky fall, the | :25:41. | :25:50. | |
national anthem and rule the world. I work with them not just in large | :25:51. | :26:00. | |
rehearsals but individually as well. It has to be perfect. | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
I am really excited. I don't really feel the nerves. I feel the | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
excitement about it. You don't really get nervous, you | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
just play like there's no one out there. I know they are watching in | :26:16. | :26:27. | |
Cleethorpes, so safe journey to London and enjoy playing. | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
There headlines: The Prime Ministers called for urgent action to tackle | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
the growing threat to resistance and. | :26:43. | :26:54. | |
Talking about claims of bullying in hospitals, this is anonymous, very | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
sad to lose Wendy Noble, I worked with her for years, the NHS cannot | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
afford to lose such good surgeons and consultants, I complained many | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
years ago but it fell on deaf ears. I decided to leave. Another | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
anonymous one, I worked in Hull for over 40 years and found bullying | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
existed not just between the medical staff but amongst admin staff as | :27:22. | :27:31. | |
well. Finally, from Emily, people should be able to speak out without | :27:32. | :27:39. | |
fears. Thank you for those. And thank you | :27:40. | :27:41. | |
for watching. Goodbye. | :27:42. | :27:49. |