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New figures show the number of patients kept waiting | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
in an ambulance outside Accident and Emergency Departments for more | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
than an hour has quadrupled in the last two years. | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
Labour says the figures are shocking, but the NHS says it's | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
Dave has been looking at the numbers. It is supposed to take half | :00:28. | :00:40. | |
an hour or less for patients to be transferred from an ambulance to the | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
accident and emergency department but increasingly it is not | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
happening. Two years ago there were almost 18,000 incidents of patients | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
waiting half an hour or more before the transfer and by 201516 it had | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
gone up to 30 9000. Two years ago many more patients waited over an | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
hour an ambulance. By this year it had more than quadrupled to 15,000. | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
The figures were obtained under a freedom of information request by | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
the Labour Party. It has described the inflammation are shocking. It is | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
simply not acceptable that people should be waiting in an ambulance | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
for over an hour, waiting to get when A department. I am deeply | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
concerned for the safety of patients and I think our viewers would not | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
consider it a satisfactory way to proceed and would accept the | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
government to take action. What is going wrong? Unison blames | :01:35. | :01:47. | |
the extreme lack of funding across every part of the NHS. It says some | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
A departments are overwhelmed. Cuts in social care lead to patients | :01:51. | :01:51. | |
being discharged leads to back-ups. being discharged leads to back-ups. | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
NHS England says the figures reflect increasing demand for ambulances and | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
staff work hard to minimise delays. The Department of Health says | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
hospital in ambulance trusts must work closely together to improve the | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
situation and it says it has invested ?10 billion to improve NHS | :02:09. | :02:09. | |
services. Earlier I spoke to Ged Blezard | :02:10. | :02:10. | |
from the Ambulance Service and asked him why he thought | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
the situation had got so critical. There is increasing demand on the | :02:13. | :02:22. | |
NHS as a whole. Ambulance Services are getting increasing amounts of | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
calls and the NHS is in increasing demand. Some issues are causing | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
issues. The ambulances are getting calls from more poorly patients so | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
we are taking more patients to A then we have done before and they | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
need to be admitted to hospital which is causing some problems. That | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
is a concern in itself is patients who are poorly waiting for more than | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
an hour in the ambulance rather than going into a and D. Yes, but the | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
patients are treated in clinical priority so the most poorly patients | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
going to A as soon as possible and the others with minor injuries or | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
conditions will experience some conditions will experience some | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
delays but it doesn't happen all the time, it is just periods of high | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
demand when the problem occurs. The numbers we are talking about have | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
gone up drastically in the last two years, almost fourfold. It is an | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
acceptable, isn't it? It is. The figures are not what we would like | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
them to be and it is an example of the pressure of the whole NHS with | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
demand and limited resources to respond. We accept that patients are | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
being delayed and we want to do everything we can in our power to | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
make the delay as minimal as possible and from an ambulance point | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
of view we are putting on more resources and putting more | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
paramedics on vehicles than we have ever done before to try and meet the | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
demand. I am sure you don't want to see this happening any more than | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
anyone else but what should be done to bring improve the situation? Some | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
of the things we are doing is making sure there are more ambulance | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
resources available for patients but more importantly we're looking at | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
new models of care so it is not just patients bringing 999 and expecting | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
an ambulance but we are hoping to give them advice and help over the | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
telephone and treatment and advice over the phone and if we do tend to | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
see patients we are hoping to treat them on the scene rather than take | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
them to A so we are looking at ways in which we can minimise the | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
amount of patients who go to the hospital so there is no queueing. | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
Thank you very much indeed. Two people suffered head injuries | :04:32. | :04:32. | |
when part of the new roof gave way at Manchester's Victoria Station | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
following after heavy Gallons of water fell | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
onto passengers on platforms below. An investigation is underway to try | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
and establish why the roof, which cost millions | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
of pounds, failed. The roof panel is believed to have | :04:48. | :04:48. | |
failed shortly after four o'clock this afternoon, | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
just as passenger numbers Gallons of rain water dropped down | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
onto commuters below through what appears to be | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
a rent in the material. Other panels could still | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
be seen bowing under I was just at the ticket gate and | :05:05. | :05:14. | |
then I heard a massive bang, a crash, and loads of water came | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
tumbling down onto the train and people fell down and there was, from | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
what I saw, there was a rush to get to my train and there was a lazy | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
left on the floor who had been hit by either the water we saw or by | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
roofing. It was only in October last | :05:32. | :05:31. | |
year that the station re-opened, with the new roof, | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
following a ?44 million ugrade. The futuristic new roof was the | :05:35. | :05:44. | |
centrepiece of the ?44 million refurbishment of the station. It is | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
built on the same material, polymer, that was used in the construction of | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
the bio domes at the Eden Project in Cornwall. There are 400 panels in | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
the new roof structure which is now being checked by inspectors to make | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
sure there are no further issues. The investigation will want | :05:59. | :05:59. | |
to establish how a brand-new roof The station is used by six million | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
passengers every year. Parts remained taped off tonight | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
but Northern Rail says all platforms are open and there's no | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
disruption to services. A Detective Inspector | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
in Cumbria has been demoted following investigations | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
into the death of 13-month-old Poppi died in 2012, | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
after being found at her home Cumbria Police was criticised | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
for its investigation into her death and the matter was referred | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
to Independent Police The inspector has now admitted gross | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
incompetence and been Controversial plans to scrap free | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
school buses for pupils across east More than 100 pupils turned out | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
to Cheshire East Council's cabinet meeting today to protest | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
against the changes, which their schools claim will mean | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
children using dangerous Officials insist parents | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
are responsible for Britain's skills shortage is so bad | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
that a government report this week warns it could cause irretrievable | :07:00. | :07:08. | |
damage to our economy. But an event in Manchester might | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
just make a difference. 15,000 schoolchildren, | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
their teachers and parents are expected at the National | :07:14. | :07:14. | |
Apprenticeship Show. And it seems workplace training | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
is becoming increasingly attractive, Daniel and Michael are learning how | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
to service and repair equipment at a tool and plant hire | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
company in Warrington. I have learned a lot to do with the | :07:25. | :07:36. | |
machinery that we work on, hydraulic systems, pneumatic systems. I wanted | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
to earn while I learn and you get your foot into the door of a company | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
which would get the opportunity do so without learning the trade | :07:45. | :07:53. | |
beforehand. These two were in two the third year of their scheme and | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
today the company was out looking for new apprenticeships. | :07:57. | :07:57. | |
Tony Walton is on the lookout for new recruits at Manchester's | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
To get a lifting qualification to deal with something like that, they | :08:01. | :08:10. | |
will never be out of a job and they can go and work on rigs oilfields | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
rather they stayed with us but that rather they stayed with us but that | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
is what they need to do and we will put them through all the | :08:18. | :08:18. | |
qualifications. There's a broad range | :08:19. | :08:19. | |
of schemes on offer. The government have a huge drive to | :08:20. | :08:28. | |
make sure that 3 million new apprentices start in this term in | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
office. There is a huge investment from employers going into employing | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
apprentices and increasing the size of their schemes and the government | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
has recently introduced into apprenticeship levy for large | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
employers that mean it is in their financial interest to employ | :08:44. | :08:44. | |
apprentices. There are as many girls as boys | :08:45. | :08:44. | |
taking up apprenticeships and some evidence that the cost of a degree | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
is making this an increasingly attractive alternative | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
to university. Do you think people are being driven | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
to apprenticeships -- apprenticeships because of the cost | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
of going to university? I think so. I was thinking of going to | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
university but now I am more interested in a apprenticeship. | :09:06. | :09:05. | |
These young people could be the answer to our | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
They're being encouraged to aim high. | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
In the Championship Blackburn who are struggling at the bottom | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
got their first win in four games with a 2-1 defeat of | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
Wigan, who are also in the bottom three, drew at Leeds. | :09:18. | :09:28. | |
For the results of today's results from League 1, you can get them all | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
on our BBC sport website. Now let us have a look at the weather. | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
So far autumn has been topsy-turvy and it started well but in the last | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
few days things have gone downhill and that is autumn in style and | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
rather unsettled. In the next few days things settle down a bit with | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
dry conditions coming in and a lovely area of high pressure. We | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
have continental air towards the weekend so things will be cooler but | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
it will be dry and it should be fairly bright. Not so today, the | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
line of rain came through the afternoon caused problems in | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
Manchester City centre and you can see from the latest picture that | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
showers are petering out and leaving the region. They won't just | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
disappear and coastal areas such as Wirral and Cheshire it you may find | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
a few more coming in in the next few hours. From here onwards the story | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
is dry. Clearing parts temperatures chilly in rural areas. Towns and | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
cities and the numbers aren't so bad. Tomorrow remnants of showers to | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
start the day and they were last for long. The sun should stick with us | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
all the way through. It is a very nice day. A few showers running down | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
Pennine area spot for most of us it is virtually sunshine all through | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
the day. The breezes coming from the North at about ten miles an hour so | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
it will not feel warm. The numbers are brilliant. I leave you with the | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
outlook for the next few days. The dry weather sticks with us. Good | :10:59. | :10:59. | |
night. Good evening. As you've just seen | :11:00. | :11:13. | |
from your local outlook, not a huge amount changes over the next few | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
days. The weather patterns will be blocked again. What is driving that? | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
It's a deep area of low pressure, the remnants of hurricane Nicole in | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
the Atlantic. That's heading towards Greenland. Set to pile up the snow | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
here, metres of it in the next few days. It's dragging a lot of warm | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
air into the North Atlantic on the Eastern flank. What that does is | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
build this, high pressure. That's not going to move a great deal over | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
the next few days. To the east, low pressure in place. That means | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
Eastern England always prone for further showers through the rest of | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
this week. For the rest of the UK, largely dry, some sunny days, but | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
also rather cool nights and a few misty | :11:53. | :11:53. |