16/01/2017 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

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The headlines tonight: A funding crisis in the health service.

Now a Lincolnshire MP says patients should be charged

We could look at paying to see your GP. We could look at paying for your

accommodation in hospitals. Fears people could be forced

to leave their homes because of damage caused

by Friday's tidal surge. I don't think we've

got long at all now. If we have another bad day,

we will have to go. A very quiet week

to come weather-wise. Join me for that updated

week-ahead forecast. The MP for Gainsborough,

Sir Edward Leigh, says some patients in our area are falling victim

to an NHS postcode lottery. He says the government should

consider charging patients His comments come as some health

managers across Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire admit they're

having to restrict access to some procedures to ensure the NHS gets

good value for money. Our health correspondent,

Vicky Johnson, has the story. It's called the National Health

Service but there are growing concerns that access can depend

on where you live. We do have a postcode lottery

and we should fight our corner in places like Hull and Lincolnshire

and say we deserve just as good Bradley Marshall, from Bridlington,

has benefited from this He's one of less than 1,000 patients

who've had their proton therapy treatment in the US funded

by the NHS. The funding is vital

for children everywhere. Without it, they are

left with nothing. Bradley's treatment for a spinal

tumour cost more than ?100,000. But now even run-of-the-mill

procedures have to be agreed Clinical Commissioning Groups,

or CCGs, control health budgets. In the East Riding some procedures

are already restricted, Patients are required to lose weight

and give up smoking before getting operations like hip

and knee replacements. Cosmetic surgery and sterilisation

reversal operations are not now routinely commissioned

and are instead considered It is a National Service

with local variation based Demographically populations

vary significantly. It is important we commission

and respond to the needs of that Ten thousand more patients

are admitted to hospital every day, compared to ten years ago,

and this is coming at Some believe it's time to talk again

about how we fund this. We could look at paying to go

and see your GP and then it We could look at paying

for your accommodation in hospitals and a suggestion we should talk

about how we are getting more There's little doubt that the NHS

is straining under the weight of our growing demands,

but the debate of how best to support this much cherished

institution goes on. Earlier, I spoke to the Hull

East MP, Karl Turner, and asked him if he agreed

with Sir Edward Leigh on charging. This is the same old Tory story -

the private good and public bad. They always undermine our NHS

and underfund it in order to justify its eventual

privatisation, which is what But this government put more money

into the NHS than Labour were planning to do,

had you won the election. The NHS would be harder

up than it is now. Simon Stevens disagrees with that,

the guy in charge of the NHS. I think this is probably

a deflection from the Tories because they don't want to talk

about what's really happening in the NHS, they don't

want to talk about the fact that British Red Cross are describing it

as a humanitarian crisis. A two-year-old child is suspended

between two plastic chairs for four hours because there is no bed

for that little boy. I just want to keep

on the point of charging. Do you agree with charging people

if they don't turn up for a GP I don't agree with charging

in the NHS for any reason, So I can make an appointment,

not turn up at my doctor Sir Edward Leigh might be able

to afford to pay for a GP appointment and the Secretary

of State for Health can I think he's flogged

a business in the last couple of days for ?15 million,

so billionaires can afford it, but people in my constituency

probably very often can't afford to pay for GP appointments on top

of what they've already paid in tax. "I would rather pay an extra

penny or two on my income But the reality is this -

people already pay for the NHS in their National Insurance

and taxes. What the government haven't done

is funded it quite enough. They are desperate to undermine

the NHS in order to eventually They will not get away

with it because the public won't allow them to do that,

but they'd love to do that. What about someone who's

having bariatric surgery or a hip replacement -

should they lose some weight first to help the NHS and help themselves

and help the after-care? The clinicians are the ones who have

to decide whether it's safe to operate on somebody who is obese

and whether it's safe to do so. Final question - your

message to Edward Leigh I think he can afford to pay

for private treatment in the NHS but people in my constituency can't

and they shouldn't have to anyway because they've already paid

for it in their taxes. Mr Turner, thank

you very much indeed. People living in a village

on the East Yorkshire coast say Bird flu has been concerned in

Lincolnshire. A protection zone has been put in around Farmborough.

Officials say there is a very low risk to humans.

People living in a village on the East Yorkshire coast say

they may have to leave their homes because last week's tidal surge has

Some residents in Skipsea say the storm's taken up to four feet

East Riding of Yorkshire Council say it has engineers

Our environment correspondent, Paul Murphy, reports.

Residents have spent this morning fixing fences and clearing debris.

Friday's tidal surge saw waves breaking over

the end of their gardens and showering their homes with rocks

I was stood at the window watching it and it came right up, right over,

broke that man's fence next door and a few more further on.

And you've told me that stones from the waves

There was little stones, they were hitting my window.

I thought my window was going to come through.

This was the scene on Friday as huge waves carved big chunks out

This is already the fastest eroding coastline in Europe.

Residents here talk about the nine-metre rule -

the distance between their homes and the cliff edge.

Once it is breached, it's their understanding

that the local authority will ask them to leave their homes.

It's pretty clear that Friday night's tidal surge has brought

Mandy believes this is probably her last winter living

She lost more than a metre of her garden in just two

If we have another bad day, we'll have to go.

Because we haven't even got nine metres at the moment now.

We're having to take the conservatory down so that we've

A resident here for 25 years, she says no one appears to be

concerned about defending this coast from the sea.

There is money available and I know there is,

I mean, if they can spend 400 million on the palace,

if she's going to let her land go, she's going to have no land to rule.

But we want our house protected with a sea defence.

Surveyors have spent the day assessing precisely how

But it's clear that some of those living here may need to think

carefully about whether it is safe to continue living life

Paul Murphy, BBC Look North, Skipsea.

Northern Gas networks says it's still looking into why thousands

of people were left without gas in Withernsea over the weekend.

The gas went off at around 6pm on Saturday and stayed off

A ?2 million entertainment venue in Skegness is being demolished just

Grand Central, which included a nightclub, bar and office space,

was built in 2011 but shut its doors last year.

It'll be replaced by a new complex which will include a tenpin bowling

A quiet week to come across all parts of East

Mostly dry, cloudy, very light winds.

This is the chart for Thursday but higher pressure will dominate

throughout the week and into next weekend.

Bit of drizzle in places at the moment with the exception

Clearer skies may well lead to a touch of ground frost elsewhere.

No problems with temperatures coming in at 3 or 4 Celsius.

For tomorrow, then, the best chance of any brightness again

It should stay largely dry, just a small chance of catching

We will see top temperatures around 6 Celsius.

Wednesday through to Friday, dry, quite cloudy, bit

perhaps a little milder. If you like the mild weather,