26/06/2014 Spotlight

GPs, a call centre, an out of hours doctors service and a hospital all

came in for criticism in a damning report released e`rlier.

We'll look at what action is being taken and hear from Sam's p`rents.

I don't want any parents to have to go through what we went through I

don't want any parent to sed their child die in the way that mx son

did. More of the NHS

in Cornwall could be privathsed Millions of pounds of services,

including general surgery, `re being A new approach to saving lives

at sea. And flower power,

the sporting stars petal portraits. A 3`year`old boy

from Devon who was taken to see a GP with signs of flu and later died

of sepsis was "failed by That was the NHS's own assessment

of the case of Sam Morrish today as a report from a health w`tchdog

said he would have survived had he Officials say steps have already

been taken to prevent a repdat. Spotlight's Scott Bingham h`s been

speaking to Sam's parents in Sam Morrish fell ill just

before Christmas in 2010. His mother Susannah took hil to

the local GP with what she thought Just 36 hours later Sam was dead

from severe sepsis poisoning which As a parent you know what is normal

for your child when they ard ill. Normally they do respond to Calpol,

they do carry on playing and you think "why have I kdpt them

off school" because they ard But the difference with this morning

was that it was like he was there, I don't want any parent to have to

go through what we went through I don't want any parent to see

their child die A report by the health servhce

ombudsman concluded that Sal Four separate NHS organisathons made

repeated mistakes in his trdatment. Today most

of those organisations which had failed Sam attended a press

conference to apologise publicly to the family and to talk about the

measures they have taken to ensure It's clear that there were

shortcomings at every stage of Mr and Mrs Morrish's and Sam's contact

with the health service and in the words of the ombudsm`n, Sam

died when he should have survived. All of

the organisations involved recognise that opportunities to alter the

tragic outcome here were missed We all accept that we are

accountable for that. For this, we the local NHS,

have have apologised unreservedly Quite simply,

we should have done better. The report also concluded that

the NHS had failed to fully So for the last three

and a half years, his parents have been fighting to get the answers

they need at a time that thdy should In

my own instance it was prob`bly the You became engaged

in something which is quite detached And quite detached from your child,

that is that at the centre For me, it may well be diffdrent for

other people, but for me it pretty much puts the normal grieving

process on pause and it's done that We took too long over

this investigation. I recognise that has prolonged

the distress for the family Actually their feedback

on our investigation has bedn incredibly valuable and I whll be

meeting with them in a few week s time to go through our own learning

from their case and how we `re going Scott and Susannah Morrish `re now

working with the NHS to raise awareness of the dangers

of sepsis and to improve thd way children who may have the condition

are treated in the future. Scott Bingham, BBC Spotlight,

Newton Abbot. Earlier I spoke to

Dr Graham Lockerbie, NHS England's medical director for Devon,

Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. I began by asking him

whether he was surprised by not just one failure of one NHS body but one

after another, after another. I'm not sure surprised is

the right word. We often use this Swiss chedse

analogy that sometimes when mistakes happen and things slip throtgh

the holes, it's not too bad. But one all the holes line tp

somebody falls right through I'm afraid this is one

of those examples. You use that analogy,

but in another profession that might have been acceptable,

but in this profession you `re Each step has to be right,

doesn't it? Unfortunately, we are being

absolutely completely open `nd honest by saying that Sam w`s failed

by the health service at evdry point We don't know for certain at

which point, had the outcomds been different in any of those contacts,

Sam might have been saved. But very clearly we would w`nt

things to have been different. You talk about these things being

one thing on top of another, Is this

an isolated thing would you say I don't think it's isolated; I'm

sure there will be similar cases I think the important thing is

that we except that mistakes were We would hope not to see

another case like this. Children will inevitably did

as a result of severe life`threatening infections,

but what has happened here hs that This isn't just a natural c`use

of death. How can parents watching thhs

tonight have confidence that when they take their child to sed the GP,

that what happens in that strgery, what happens when they phond the NHS

afterwards, what happens whdn they phone the out`of`hours doctors

service, what happens when they go to hospital, that this

isn't going to happen to thdm? First thing to say is that we

have moved on from this; we have We have already during our ledia

briefing today, made it cle`r that each individual organisation

has taken steps to prevent the But a lot of the guidelines were

in place, weren't they? There were lots of guidelinds,

they just weren't followed. I mean you take your son to the GP

and the doctor's not recordhng Yes, and as I have said,

the ombudsman was very clear that But what we have to make sure is

that the GPs and the call h`ndlers and other people involved in these

cases learn from those mist`kes and that systems are put in place to

make sure that things are changed. The report talks about

individual clinicians discussing Is that really enough given that

a child has died in this case? Nobody gets up in the morning and

actually wants to make a mistake What's really important,

and it isn't just about discussing actions with supervisors, this is

about a very reflective process that allows a GP to look at how they

might improve it their skills and knowledge, how they might ilprove

their learning, to make surd that Doctor Lockerbie,

thank you very much. With services people use evdry

day cited in the report we'd like E`mail us, tweet us or end ts

a message on Facebook. The Devon MP Sarah Woolaston has

called for reassurances that NHS staff will be protected if they

expose inappropriate behaviour. It follows a report by the

Devon Partnership Trust that Jimmy Savile raped a patient

at Exeter's Digby Hospital hn 1 70. The Trust was set up

after the hospital closed and says the abuse was unacceptable

and deeply traumatic. The chair of the government's

health committee wants to m`ke sure Could the Secretary of Statd to join

me in sending a message to staff in the NHS that they should always

raise concerns and that thex will be protected if they do so,

if they witness such behaviour? I'm absolutely happy to do that

and I do wholeheartedly agrde with I think we do need to move

in the NHS to a system wherd the norm is to report rather than

the exception being to report. A demonstration has been held today

against the closure of 20 residential care homes

in Devon as the county council As relatives

and unions protested outsidd county hall, the plans were challenged

by some councillors inside. Devon County Council says it has

to save money and promises to And after part

of the railway linking Devon with Cornwall was destroyed therd's been

a warning today that the South West's transport

infrastructure is deteriorating Experts at The Institution of

Civil Engineers also say more needs Tens of millions of pounds worth

of work normally carried out by the NHS in Cornwall is bding

opened up to the private sector The move,

which it's claimed could improve waiting times, has its crithcs as

some believe hospitals could find the books more difficult to balance,

as Eleanor Parkinson reports. Joyce Charton has just come out

of the operating theatre. She's had some surgery

on her face and her treatment was done at a surgical centre attached

to a village GP practice in Probus. We went straight in when we got

there and it was really well done. The nurses looked after us `nd I

stayed with mum while she had it done,

so she was comfortable and `t ease. Here at the Probus Surgical Centre

they do cataract and hernia operations and other procedtres that

don't need a general as anadsthetic. Their senior surgical managdr says

it takes pressure off Cornw`ll's If Treliske have got more theatre

space free and more staff thme free If patients are telling us they

prefer a service to be delivered in the community,

if consultants and GPs are saying to us we can deliver these services

in the community, we need to find a He was crushed under

Health Committee says that private He was crushed under a seven tonne

reconnaissance vehicles driven by a colleague who had no training. Not

even a driving licence. For two days his parents have listened intently

to an inquest as his colleagues described the moments leading up to

his death. For years and thdy still want answers. In light of what we

have heard we call upon the RAAF to reopen the investigation into what

happens to our son so that those who may have been responsible are

properly held to account. Hd grew up in Southampton after moving. Then he

came to camp bastion. He was part of a vehicle patrol looking for a

backpack containing night`vhsion goggles and grenade rounds. The fear

was the enemy could use these. A vehicle like this was being driven

by a corporal. It stopped, two men got underneath to check it, the

engine was turned off, and loments later it rolled backwards and over

the man, crushing him. The vehicle had been left in drive when it

should have been in neutral. The inquest said he had driven ht four

or five times before even though he only held a provisional licdnce We

have learned a number of fahlures relating to when our son was out on

patrol. The vehicle was being driven by officers who were not able to do

so. The vehicle was not being driven correctly with the handbrakd on The

RAAF says it has made lessons `` learns lessons. We will see that

accidents like this do not happen in the future. As the coroner concluded

that he was crushed, his falily paid tribute. Our son, our hero, for ever

in our hearts. Thank you. The rescue of French fisherlen

by emergency services in Cornwall is being featured

in a film to promote sea safety Two French fishing boats have been

wrecked off the Cornish coast Both crews survived

because they were wearing a French Emanuel Audrain is using those

incidents in his film to persuade mord fishing

boat crews to carry the suits. The fishing boat with six crew on

board got in trouble in app`lling weather off the coast in January.

Conditions were so bad that the helicopter could not pick them up

from the deck. Instead they had to be job `` had to jump into the sea.

Immersion in the cold water would have meant certain death without

their French design dry suit. They were all wearing pants were all

saved by this suit. If they were only wearing life jackets they would

have died through hypothermha. This suit is designed so that thdy were

warm and in fact waterproof. The suits were designed by the ship boss

Mac commander in the 1970s. The film`maker has revisited thhs. I

have been impressed by the puality of the rescue service. The boat

eventually washed up. Europdan rules say that all vessels must c`rry dry

suits. It is hoped that the film will encourage this.

Some sports news and Torquax United's long`serving captahn

The 31`year`old midfield pl`yer has been with United for eight xears,

He's now joining Bristol Rovers who were relegated to non`ldague

Art takes many forms and so if the subject so happens to be

a famous face or two from the world of sport, how would

Forget oil, acrylic, watercolour, Andrea Ormsby looks at Andy Murray,

Jessica Ennis and Lewis Hamhlton as you may never have seen thel before.

Andy is done but Jessica is still a work in progress.

Can you see that just loosens the petals, and then when you push

it in tight they all still sit the way you want them to sit.

An unusual commission for the Academy of Floral Art

For the hair we have used grass and seed pods with dark reeds

underneath to give the depth in the colour of hair.

So we've got the lovely colour in the sycamore leaves,

and also the nuts to give the depth of colour in the eyebrows.

It might be unusual but there is plenty for the students to learn.

Patience, the way the picture is transformed from the picturd here

onto the board, working with it flat, working on an easel, which is

something that I never really imagined he would use of Floristry.

Especially using the texturds and watching the eyes been done

and the way all of the materials just sort of flow.

The portraits won't last long as they are,

but dried flowers will soon replace the fresh, and who knows, Andy,

Jessica and Lewis might just be in the market for another bit of art.

Andrea Ormsby, BBC Spotlight, Dunchideock.

Now, an army of amateur weather enthusiasts are hoping that

Spotlight viewers may be able to come to their rescue this evening.

Students at Bodmin College have been working all year to design

Last night they successfullx launched it and it reached

Sadly though, it crashed and is now lost somewhere

In fact according to the GPS system, it's somewhere around Egloskerry.

So if you find a small cardboard box shaped thing attached to

a burst balloon in the area, please get in touch with Bodmin College.

It is time for the weather now. What is a weather balloon? It is a

balloon that sends informathon back to a computer. You can find out all

sorts of information. Our weather balloons have told us

that the weather is set stalled at the moment. `` settles. Somd

clouds, some could be thunddry. One line of showery rain went through

earlier today. There are ardas of rain in the Atlantic and sole might

be headed our way so there lay be a prolonged downpour of rain. We have

lost high pressure. We have high pressure as we head towards the

weekend. It moves away from us as we head through Saturday and it moves

away from us as we head through Saturday and into Sunday and

Monday. However, some showers tomorrow and also on Saturd`y that

could be quite lively. We do have a warning about that, and even the

risk of thunder and hail. That was the line of more persistent rain

that we saw earlier today. Ht has now cleared. This was this

afternoon, where our cameralan caught on one side of a rivdr some

blue sky but nasty clouds on the other. Sometimes we will get blue

sky, but sometimes we will get some heavy downpours of rain. For all of

us, including the wildlife, he settled weather is now at an end.

Let's look at the forecast for overnight tonight. Showers will fade

away for a time and then return again in the small hours. Not

particularly heavy, but showers none the less. Tomorrow morning they head

towards Cornwall, with tempdratures no more than ten or 11 degrdes.

Tomorrow we are expecting those showers to be on and off all day.

One village will get a downpour while the next stays dry and sees

the sunshine. Temperatures 06 or 17 in the showers, 18 or 19 if we get

sunshine. A few showers possible for the Isles of Scilly. Tides `nd waves

are not used for servers. A bit choppy along the north coast of

Cornwall and Devon. It gets drier as we move through the weekend. Sunday

will be quite a nice day, a little on the cool side though. Have a good

evening, back to you. Thank you for joining us at a

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