13/01/2017 Midlands Today


13/01/2017

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New figures have revealed the extent of the pressures on the region's

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hospitals in the first two weeks of the new year.

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Six of our NHS Trusts spent at least one day last week on level 3

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and level 4 alerts, meaning they were

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The son of a pensioner who waited overnight in a corridor says

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Another emergency, another patient heading

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In this pressurised winter, the tightest of pinch points.

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That's the problem, you can't get away from that fact.

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Graeme's dad, Derek, went to A there on Monday.

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He spent 15 hours in a corridor, it was 48 hours before he got

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It wasn't that they were abandoned, in any sense of the word.

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There were staff there, paramedics and nurses,

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and everyone was being looked after, but it was clearly a system

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that was overloaded and was getting close to not being able to cope.

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In a statement, the hospital said pressures here are continuing

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but they have robust plans for dealing with them.

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It also confirmed that in the two weeks up to January the 4th,

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109 patients waited 12 hours or more for treatment in A

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Figures out today show in the first week of the year

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one hospital, the Royal Stoke, spent a day at level four,

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formerly black alert, where comprehensive patient care

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It spent the next three days on level three,

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what used to be red alert, denoting major pressures, along

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Shrewsbury and Telford spent two days at level three.

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Russells Hall in Dudley and Coventry's University

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An expert on the NHS says there's no quick fix...

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There is a need for more beds but the sort of beds that

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are probably needed, or the sort of support

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that is often needed, is probably out there in social care

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or in community hospitals and other community services,

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so that people can move on to those services after they've

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had their initial assessment and treatment in hospital.

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None of our A shut their doors to patients but the demands they're

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facing were never greater, the fault lines

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Meanwhile, an NHS review has decided maternity services will not

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return to Stafford County Hospital on safety as well

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Consultant-led obstetrics were moved from the site

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to the Royal Stoke Hospital last January.

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In other news, the Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central has

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Tristram Hunt, who's a historian, is leaving politics to take over

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as director of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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There's already speculation about who his party will choose

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Our reporter Rob Mayor is in Stoke for us now.

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I think to some of his constituents but not really people following

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Westminster politics. He was an open critic of Labour

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leader Jeremy Corbyn and decided not Before being an MP he had

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a successful career as a historian, writing books and

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presenting TV programmes. But he says that isn't why

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he is leaving parliament, it's just that becoming

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the director of the V Museum Earlier I asked voters

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here in Stoke what they thought. He has a presence in the city,

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I think it's fair to say. He's not local but I think he's

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tried his best to represent Stoke. The Labour Party have got

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no chance of getting in with Jeremy Corbyn in charge

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anyway, so he might He's going to a better job

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than the one he's got, probably! The thoughts of some people in Stoke

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today. One possible replacement will be

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Mohammed Purvis, the leader of the Labour group on Stoke-on-Trent City

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Council. Around a hundred jobs

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will be created in Telford, after a car-parts manufacturer

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announced plans for a new factory. Austrian firm Polytec is moving

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to the T54 Technology Park. Its UK base is currently

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at Bromyard in Herefordshire. The company says that site won't be

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affected by the new development. A special summit's been arranged

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to discuss how to tackle the growing problem of illegal Traveller camps

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across the West Midlands. The Police and Crime Commissioner

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says they're costing the taxpayer and private landlords hundreds

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of thousands of pounds. Steve Dale has now paid

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for new security measures, including concrete blocks

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at the entrance to his industrial site in Tipton, after illegal

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Travellers set up there last week. An estimated 300 illegal camps

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are moved on each year. We need to work more closely,

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the police with local councils, and also to see if the law needs

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to be changed, to balance those rights between the Travellers' right

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to travel and people their right to use their park

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the way they want to. Ludlow Museum's waiting to see

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if anyone will come forward to claim a substantial amount of gold found

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hidden in a piano in Shropshire. It was found in the

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110-year-old instrument If nobody can prove it belongs

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to them, it could be declared More than a hundred schools

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were closed across Stoke and Staffordshire today

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after heavier than expected snow fell overnight, giving hundreds

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of children like these Driving conditions were

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difficult in some areas. And a baby was born in the back

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of a police car on its way to the Royal Stoke Hospital,

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after her parents' car And of course you can stay in touch

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with the latest weather and travel problems in your area

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via your BBC local radio station. I'll leave you with

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the weather from Rebecca. Well, there's been plenty

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of talk of snow today. We did get some across

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the North Midlands in particular, and to quite low levels further

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south across the region, but not everywhere, and we had

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plenty of blue skies as well. As we head through the weekend we're

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going to start with an ice warning. It is covering much

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of the region as we head To low levels we could have some

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quite tricky driving conditions. We still have some wintry flurries

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possible across the North Midlands, blowing down through the Cheshire

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gap, so they could By the early hours of tomorrow

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turning more to sleet, but it's still a cold night,

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temperatures dipping down We start the day tomorrow with those

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northerly winds continuing. We still have a few showers

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working their way southwards. Those winds are going to make

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things feel quite chilly. We'll see those showers

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clearing away to the south. There might be a wintry mix

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in there, but then we'll be left Still a few showers rippling along

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the west coast as well. There's more information on that

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in the national forecast. I'll leave you with the outlook

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for the next few days. 5-6 is the best we will have. It

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stays cold into the beginning of next week as well

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stop Good evening, a cold, icy night, but some others have other

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concerns. This was the scene earlier today, huge waves crashing on to the

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shoreline at Whitley Bay. We still have the peak of the high tide to

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come in other parts. This is the flood line number. It's if you have

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any concerns. The worst of the wind slowly comes -- subsiding. Wintry

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showers across the North of Scotland and some filtering well inland

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across the Midlands, giving a light dusting in some places. An icy

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night, temperatures widely close to or below freezing, particularly

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where you have snow cover. Tomorrow starts cold. A large chunk of the UK

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will have a fine, crisp,

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