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GP surgeries in crisis across the region | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
This is the worst crisis we have seen. | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
We'll be hearing how the problem's equally acute | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
As the region's jobless figtres fall again, | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
the Black Country project hdlping women set up their own businesses. | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
Fall out from the Russian exports ban ` dairy farmers get togdther | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
People don't realise how much is it is better how much we get. H'm sure | :00:36. | :00:46. | |
you pay more if you knew. Could a Yes vote for Scottish | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
independence mean a bigger share of And Warwick Castle looking | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
resplendent in the morning sunshine. If you're planning on heading | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
there this weekend, thunderstorms Doctors | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
across the West Midlands ard warning that GP services are in crisis, | :00:58. | :01:15. | |
both in rural and urban are`s. In Herefordshire, there are plans to | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
close two GP surgeries, In Stoke on Trent, there ard | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
warnings that two practices are also at risk of closure, despite the fact | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
that some GPs in the city Our health correspondent, | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
Michele Paduano, reports. It's a scene playing out ag`in | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
and again across our region, In this surgery in Hereford, they | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
have spent ?5,500 advertising for I have been a GP for a long time. It | :01:43. | :01:57. | |
is my 30 year reunion coming up in a couple of weeks. This is without | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
doubt the worst situation I have seen in primary care in a long time. | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
I have been in Hereford for 22 years. This is the worst tile for us | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
going forward. The picturesque village | :02:09. | :02:09. | |
of Pembridge ` no post office, These children will be the first | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
to grow up without a surgerx. Branch practices are closing here | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
and in Eardisley, mums say ht's a mess, but it's the elderly who don't | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
drive who are in most trouble. It is such a shame in a rur`l | :02:20. | :02:29. | |
community, that people have to travel such a vast stones. The | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
majority of people we see using it are elderly member is of thd village | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
who would be able to walk in themselves. | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
Nobody was willing to talk to us but NHS England said it was sorry for | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
the disruption. There was enough capacity for everyone to have a GP | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
and they are working on new technology to stop people h`ve to | :02:54. | :02:54. | |
travel. In Stoke on Trent, | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
the situation is grave. Each GP should look | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
after 1,600 patients. After recruiting, | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
the Haymarket Health Centre has We are used to the workload we get. | :03:01. | :03:14. | |
There is a critical mass at which it becomes are difficult to de`l with | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
and to deliver except to wh`t you want to deliver. We're not `t | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
medical mass but there are ` couple of practices that are. | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
Stoke's MPs have all receivdd a letter saying two anonymots | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
Joan Walley claims there's ` lack of direction. | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
We do not have enough GPs coming through at all. It is difficult to | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
tie down anyone who has responsible at E48. | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
Extra work load and pension changes mean GPs are retiring earlidr. There | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
are more women GPs. They ard leaving the profession, on average, aged 39. | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
My concern is that the systdm starts to fall apart and I would think that | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
if that is going to happen, it will happen in the next few years. I | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
cannot see it carrying on lhke it is for the next ten years. | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
Changes need to be made to recruitment and retention and soon. | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
And staying with the subject of the NHS under pressure ` West Mhdlands | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
Ambulance service is holding its annual general meeting tonight. | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
The service currently emploxs just over 2,200 front`line staff. | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
Last year, they responded to 921,000 999 calls, an incre`se of | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
They exceeded the government's targets for | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
attending the most serious cases, but just missed out on meethng | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
the target for the less critical cases ` the so called "red twos . | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
Sarah Falkland is in Birmingham at the ambulance AGM for us tonight. | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
So is this a good report for the past year? | :04:43. | :04:52. | |
This is it, the report in qtestion. It is fair to say it is a c`se of | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
could do better. This is thd first time in six years that West Midlands | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
Ambulance Service that they have missed that target. Putting it into | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
context, only half of the trusts managed to get red one and read two | :05:11. | :05:19. | |
together, so it is difficult. One speaker said it had been a difficult | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
year but he described it as being a strong platform from which to move | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
forward. Putting that city tnions today, they said it is a bit like | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
West Midlands Abingdon servhce is on the end of a diving board, ht is | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
under that much pressure. They think things could go wrong at anx | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
moment. The pressure is becoming intolerable. The resources have not | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
increased and as far as we `re concerned, it is only a matter of | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
time before things reach a critical level. So what is the answer? | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
If you speak to the chief executive, he believes part of it relids on | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
recruitment. They will be 300 new paramedics on the front lind by | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
mixture. 200 will be starting by Christmas. That is a busy thme for | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
the Ambulance Service was to I asked if he was confident that if we see | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
the same increase in the next five years, will the service copd? | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
Absolutely. That is why, since we were established and we havd worked | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
hard to make sure we keep up their recruitment plans. We are mhnimising | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
our functions to invest in the front line and we are continuing to | :06:31. | :06:39. | |
upscale and resources for stuff that is the condition of our board and | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
that is what we will be delhvering for the staff. The unions w`nt to | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
see better public education. We have had some ludicrous cases here in the | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
West Midlands, people calling in to press us at a pigeon of all things. | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
They say things need to change. If you come in the next hour, they will | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
be glad to see you Good to have you with us here | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
on Midlands Today. It's worth nearly ?20 million to | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
the local economy, but could this year's Conservative | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
Party conference be the last in The number of people out of work | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
in the West Midlands fell bx 9, 00 The unemployment rate | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
in the region currently stands at 7.1%, which is still | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
above the national average of 6 2%. But, in Wolverhampton, | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
a project to help women set up their own businesses is helping | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
a small number into work. Karolina Cumming has always wanted | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
to run her own business, but setting A Government grant helped hdr | :07:37. | :07:46. | |
with some initial costs, but she felt she lacked the knowledge to | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
get her idea off the ground. She turned to Access to Bushness | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
for help. We did things like health and | :07:56. | :08:07. | |
safety, food safety, markethng, social media, all the other, as | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
well. They were able to givd us the information I needed to open | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
something of our own. The target was to support 50 | :08:18. | :08:28. | |
women with workshops on how to We offer a lot of support around the | :08:29. | :08:48. | |
cloud's needs, really. Whatdver the cloud needs to help their journey | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
into self`employment. It's not only Karolina that | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
the charity Access to Busindss has They helped me to register ly | :08:53. | :09:06. | |
business, how to work with ly taxes. I have set up lots of different | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
websites. I am finding a re`lly good customer base. I thought I knew all | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
the basics when it came herd but I obviously didn't. | :09:19. | :09:33. | |
In Birmingham, however, GMB union leaders had a meeting with | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
the City Council today to dhscuss yesterday's announcement it's to | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
The council believes it'll need to save more than ?800 million by 018. | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
It's now looking at new ways of generating income for thd city, | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
But that means a change in the way it's traditionally pulled | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
in major money`spinners, such as the political party confdrences. | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
The Conservatives are due to arrive here in just over a week, btt might | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
this be the last time they're here for the foreseeable future? | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
Here's our Political Editor, Patrick Burns. | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
Feast your eyes because, in a week's time, this whole place will be in a | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
progressive lock`down. Police and convention centre managers `re | :10:11. | :10:11. | |
convinced this is Birminghal's moment to bask in the glare of | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
international publicity, though with no more conferences pl`nned, is | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
I think the model of the evdnt world is changing somewhat. | :10:17. | :10:38. | |
People are doing deals in different ways | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
and I'm sure Birmingham will remain a competitive and compelling venue. | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
The costs of staging these events are now | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
This will be the fifth of the main autumn party conferences to be held | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
here in the space of six ye`rs ` Four Conservative conferencds | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
It is the last of them that are covered by | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
a controversial funding deal agreed by the former Conservative`Liberal | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
Democrat administration on Birmingham City Council. | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
It means this conference alone is supported by nearly ?1.5 million | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
from the council ? that is 85% of its entire events budget, dwarfing | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
I think it is quite wrong for the ratepayer to subsidise the political | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
parties to have conferences, whether it is here in Birmingham, | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
I think they have to get re`listic in this day | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
Inevitably, there are warnings that Birlingham | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
risks leaving the field widd open to rival conference centres | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
In a letter to the Birmingh`m Post, one former Conservative grotp | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
leader accuses the current Labour administration of short`sightedness. | :11:32. | :11:44. | |
I ask them to review this and try to have more initiative and innovation. | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
We need to keep the party conferences here in Birmingham. | :11:52. | :11:52. | |
The political parties are unlikely to abandon the big cities | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
and take their main events back to outdated seaside venues. | :11:56. | :11:57. | |
But with budgets squeezed like never before, the pressure is | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
on for them to demonstrate their true value to the host citids. | :12:00. | :12:08. | |
Our business correspondent Peter Plisner is in Birmingham for us now. | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
We've heard from Nicola about women who are starting | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
Are people opting for self`employment helping to | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
bring down the unemployment rate in the region? | :12:17. | :12:26. | |
Well, I think many people think it is. There is a growing trend of | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
people going self`employed. 3.9 million people were self`employed in | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
2008, but that has risen substantially. In the last 02 months | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
13,000 more people in the Wdst Midlands are now self`emploxed. That | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
is to do with redundancy, pdople using their redundancy monex to set | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
up new businesses rather th`n take other jobs. What about thesd | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
proposed cuts at Birmingham City Council? We have been here before, | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
haven't we? It is sad news. For every public sector job that has | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
been lost, other jobs have been created in the private sector. In | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
the West Midlands we have created more private sector jobs ard never | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
before, we have bucked the trend. We have been talking about the | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
conferences, is Birmingham likely to lose out? It is easy to say they | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
will, but we just don't know. The NEC Group say they are still in | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
active discussions with the parties. They say that the door is | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
not shot. They point to othdr conferences coming to the chty. The | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
National Housing Federation are holding their annual conferdnce over | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
the next few days. We are still attracting some of the big | :13:56. | :13:56. | |
organisations to the city. The former Euro MP Nikki Sinclaire | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
has appeared in court chargdd with misconduct in a public office | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
and money`laundering. The charges relate to travel | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
expenses which were claimed between 2009 and 2010, when Nikki Shnclaire | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
was serving as a West Midlands MEP. She's now been bailed to appear | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
at Birmingham Crown Court I completely refute these charges | :14:09. | :14:26. | |
and I'm confident of being found innocent. | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
A helpline has been made av`ilable at Birmingham Children's Hospital | :14:29. | :14:30. | |
after a former employee admitted sexually | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
abusing young cancer patients in his care at another hosphtal | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
Doctor Myles Bradbury is facing jail for abusing boys as young as eight | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
The doctor worked in Birmingham between 2004 and 2008. | :14:38. | :14:46. | |
GP surgeries in crisis across the region because | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
Shefali's all set to tell us about some wonderfully warm, | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
The young hairdressers benefiting from a special fund set up | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
in memory of Hollie Gazzard, murdered as she worked in a salon. | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
Just weeks into the new season, football managers under pressure | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
after six of our league sidds were beaten last night. | :15:12. | :15:23. | |
Dairy farmers from around the country gathered | :15:24. | :15:25. | |
in Telford today for a new national conference aimed just at thdm. | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
The usual business facilitids were transformed into cattle`pens, | :15:31. | :15:32. | |
while hotels in the area were reported to be fully booked. | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
On many farmers' minds todax were the recent falls in the price | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
of milk, which one Shropshire couple say could drive them out | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
It was an unlikely setting for 00 cows. The International Centre in | :15:41. | :15:58. | |
the middle of Telford not unnaturally bovine environmdnt. | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
Dairy day, claim to be the first UK conference for farmers in this set. | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
This couple are struggling. Milk prices have crashed and thex have | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
lost 8p a litre since May. Their income is down ?4500 a month. We | :16:17. | :16:25. | |
don't know what we are going to do. We might have to give up dahry | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
farming, but we don't want to do that. We have a passion for dairy | :16:30. | :16:37. | |
farming. People don't realise when you buy your paint in the shops how | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
much it is as compared to how much we get. Surely they would p`y more | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
if they knew. This is their farm. They have 90 cows. For Neal, the | :16:48. | :17:00. | |
situation is heartbreaking. To be perfectly honest, if maybe the end | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
of us. I don't want to be dramatic, but it is getting that bad. Experts | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
say that the global market has started to collapse. The we`ther has | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
been very good in Europe, Alerica and New Zealand. Milk production is | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
up and China is buying slightly less. The Russian import ban is | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
there, too. They were a growing market taking a lot of glob`l dairy | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
products and they are no longer in the marketplace. Farmers from around | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
the country have travelled here for a chance to discuss issues `way from | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
their often isolated environments. Some good news at last! We have just | :17:49. | :18:02. | |
won the senior class! Brillhant A boost for morale at least, hf not | :18:03. | :18:04. | |
for their pockets. With a little over 12 hours to go | :18:05. | :18:05. | |
now until the polls open in the Scottish referendum about | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
independence, calls are growing for more powers to be given to the | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
Midlands. Scottish MPs have already been promised that, whatever the | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
result, they'll get more autonomy from Westminster, with the knock`on | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
effect that some MPs here would like this region to have greater powers | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
as well.For the time being, of course, we can only wait until | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
Friday to find out how Scotland decides, with mixed views today from | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
people in Coventry and Birmhngham I hope it is unknown. If I was | :18:29. | :18:52. | |
Scottish, I would say, go, Westminster doesn't do anything for | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
us. I don't see why they should be governed by people in other parts of | :18:58. | :18:58. | |
the country. likely to have on us here in the | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
Midlands? Paul Forrest from the West Midlands Economic Forum has been | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
taking a look at the numbers and joins me now. Are we likely to be | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
better or worse off depending on the Both options could be negathve to | :19:10. | :19:23. | |
the Midlands economy. If Scotland goes for independence they would be | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
allowed to change their fiscal policy, which would change their | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
competitiveness against our economy. If they stay within the United | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
Kingdom the prospects are even more negative because the amount of | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
subsidies and offers that h`ve been made with the West Midlands had a | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
complete disadvantage. People talk about the Barnett formula, but any | :19:47. | :19:57. | |
politician will say... It is a political fix. Would we be better | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
off if they said yes? Yes. Tnless there is a major re`negotiation of | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
the asymmetry of devolution in England. So it could be an | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
opportunity for the region? It could be, yes. There are a lot of claims | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
that local authorities in Scotland are quite isolated. 80% of the | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
Scottish population live in the central belt. If you rank | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
Herefordshire, Staffordshird and Shropshire against Scottish local | :20:35. | :20:36. | |
authorities they are in the bottom tier. If you look like an | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
entrepreneurial local counchl dealing with massive cuts btt are | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
trying to develop the econoly, the economy in Wolverhampton is a | :20:51. | :20:51. | |
globally leading one in it would be a major incentive. That | :20:52. | :21:30. | |
could happen if powers were to volunteer. Yes. The Davis commission | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
required complimentary about the approach of Birmingham Airport and | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
even though Birmingham is ottside the south`east, Birmingham was a | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
solution to the problems. If you got rid of the passenger duty, ht would | :21:45. | :21:54. | |
be an excellent idea. To aspiring hairdressers from Gloucestershire | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
have become the first to receive funding from the Hollie Gazzard | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
Trust. Straightening, cutting and colouring, 48 teen | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
a dream come true. The teen`ger from Gloucester had always wanted to be a | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
hairdresser at the cost of getting started on a course meant she | :22:17. | :22:16. | |
couldn't afford fund is hoping to help train other | :22:17. | :23:22. | |
head dressers to spot the shgns of domestic abuse. | :23:23. | :26:08. | |
This is how we start the dax tomorrow, on a very misty note. It | :26:09. | :27:12. | |
will be cloudy across the rdgion. It will be very warm initially and | :27:13. | :27:14. | |
getting warmer by the end of the day. The temperature could get up to | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
23 Celsius by the afternoon. Sunshine will break through, which | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
will post those values. Tomorrow night we will see the humidhty | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
kicking in and this thunderstorms breaking out. They will continue | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
into Friday as well, perhaps even Saturday. | :27:36. | :27:45. |