26/02/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

Hospitals in Yorkshire are paying out more than ever

on temporary health care staff, despite a Government cap on how

BBC research shows one hospital is spending three times

Mealtime at Harrogate District Hospital,

but is this kind of familiarity becoming a thing of the past?

The trust which runs the hospital is one of many in the region

to see an increase in spending on temporary health care staff.

Freedom of information requests submitted by the BBC

show some trusts seeing huge rises in temporary staff

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust has seen its spend

on agency medical staff rise by 212% to more than ?19 million.

The Mid Yorkshire Trust, one of the region's biggest,

has seen the total rise 235% to ?29 million.

The NHS introduced caps in late 2015 on not only the amount hospitals

could spend on agency health care staff but also on the amount

agencies were allowed to charge the NHS for

A move that was welcomed by the Harrogate trust.

We've got a real focus on recruitment of staff to

make sure we're filling up our establishment levels so we have

less reliance on temporary and agency staff.

The only reason we have agency staff in the first place

is because we don't have enough permanent staff.

The NHS says agency spending has fallen in three quarters

of hospital trusts and that that's saved ?600 million

nationally, however as our research has shown, in Yorkshire

the spending for many on temporary staff is still far too high.

Police are investigating the death of a man in Huddersfield.

Officers were called to a house in the Quarmby Road area

It's not known at this stage whether or not his

Concerned relatives have launched a campaign to try to stop

the closure of a council-run care home in Bradford.

The residents could lose their places at Holme View dementia

unit because the authority says it can't afford to update it.

A bitterly cold Bradford day, leaden skies and biting winds.

Inside Holme View Care Home, it's warm and comfortable,

but this specialist dementia unit could be closed down

It's a frightening prospect for the families of those who use it.

Here we've got a fine home, everybody's settled,

which none of them really are aware of, I really don't know

To even begin to think about what might happen if the

likes of my cousin and some of the other residents,

our loved ones, are moved from here, the consequences

A petition against the closure has so far

It was set up by relatives of people in the home

who have also started an action group to fight the plans.

22 people currently call this place home with another ten using its

services and it's been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

But the issue isn't its performance,

Bradford Councillor Val Slater told us today

that when this home was originally constructed, building specification

standards were quite different and that to upgrade it now

would cost a lot of money and inconvenience.

What will actually happen to Holme View care home

in the future will be decided on in the summer.

In boxing, Gavin McDonnell's dream of joining

twin brother Jamie as a world champion was shattered last night.

The Doncaster fighter lost on points to Mexican Rey Vargas

in his bid to land the vacant WBC super-bantamweight title.

Victory would have delivered Britain's first simultaneous

twin world champions, with Jamie already in possession

Time for the weather now with Jennnifer.

The strong breeze continues as we head

into this evening and overnight, blowing in a few showers.

Some of them will be heavy, but plenty of

So the temperature overnight will be falling back

So quite a cold start to take us into Monday morning.

Monday itself is a story of sunny spells

The showers mostly wintry over higher ground but anybody could see

In between the showers though, some brighter spells.

Tomorrow's top temperatures, feeling cold at around

As we head through the week, it stays fairly unsettled.

A lot of cloud around on Tuesday, but cold with highs of six degrees.

That four. Have a great week ahead. We will see you very you very soon.

Goodbye. Good evening. We saw the fist named

storm of the season today. It was Storm Ewan, named by the Irish

meteorological service, because it was in Ireland we expected the

biggest impacts. For the rest of the UK it was quite windy and wet, but

the worst of it is making