14/01/2017 BBC Weekend News

The Prime Minister is warning GPs they could face funding cuts

if they don't keep surgeries open for longer to meet patient demand.

The government says many people are going to hard-pressed accident

and emergency departments because they can't

Doctors' leaders accuse the government of failing to address

Our health correspondent Robert Pigott reports.

Hospitals have faced a winter crisis like none before. Unprecedented

pressure in the New Year, led almost half to declare a major alert

doctors warning patient safety was being compromised. Today the

government said GP surgeries were partly at fault, failing to provide

the access patients need, forcing them into accident departments

instead. The government wants surgeries to open from 8am until 8pm

and open seven days a week unless they can prove there is no demand.

They said they will withhold extra funding unless GPs comply. I have

worked as a nurse for many years in the NHS and I know every winter is

difficult, but this winter in particular, I have seen the highest

number ever attending A so we have to make best use of resources.

Funding is tight and if GPs will not be open when the public need them to

be open, the funding can be directed to other places in the NHS such as

A But GPs say they are being made a scapegoat for the government's

failure to fund the NHS sufficiently. If all practices were

expected to open seven days a week using five days worth of funding and

staffing, all that would happen is we would undermine the quality of

care we can provide to the vast majority of our patients and we

would stretch an already overstretched service more thinly.

Some health experts have supported claims by doctors that congestion in

A Department has been caused by finding beds for more seriously ill

patients than overflow from GP surgeries. They say medically fit

patients are clogging up badly needed beds because of the shortage

of money to care for them at home. Today, Jeremy Corbyn took the

opportunity to announce a new Labour proposal to ease the pressure on

social care. A Labour government would give social care at the

funding it needs and give a firm commitment to take failed private

care homes into public ownership to maintain the social care protection

that our people need. Research suggests three in ten people in A

would be better treated elsewhere and the government insists GPs are

vital to stopping them going there. It is now ready to take tough

measures to see that they do. Let's speak to our political

correspondent Chris Mason. What's your assessment then Chris,

about what Theresa May's I think after a howling gale of bad

headlines from the government over the past couple of days, Theresa May

wants to be seen to be taking charge and be on the side patients, the

underside of the woman who came up to me a couple of minutes ago with

her phone, counting on a stopwatch, nearly seven hours she has waited to

get her elderly mother checked into a bed. She was full of praise for

the staff saying it wasn't their fault, it was the system under too

much pressure. Theresa May, rather than GPs is pursuing a risky

strategy. We have seen that with the reaction it has provoked. But

arguably, politically it would have been more risky to say nothing. For

a long time, it has been an Achilles heel of the Conservatives and they

have not been trusted with the NHS. This week, this month, this winter,

doesn't with that. Chris, thanks very much.

A teenager who was stolen as a newborn from a hospital

in Florida 18 years ago has been found in South Carolina.

Kamiyah Mobley was discovered after a tip-off and DNA tests

The woman who raised her has been charged with kidnapping.

Our Washington Correspondent Laura Bicker sent this report.

This is Kamiyah Mobley, with a woman, who for Hall and her life she

believed was her mother. But the 18-year-old has discovered the

truth. And today that woman, Gloria Williams is behind bars. You have

been charged with kidnapping. Kamiyah was stolen from a hospital

in Florida eight hours after she was born, by someone posing as a nurse.

Her family pleaded for help to find her and police received thousands of

tip-offs. But it was only in the last year they had a breakthrough.

She had an inclination beginning a couple of months ago, she may have

been involved in this in some way. She has a lot to process and a lot

to think about. Kamiyah's family in Florida have never forgotten the

baby that was snatched from them in 1988 and they have been in touch

over the Internet. She sounds so intelligent and she said she will be

here to see us. Every day you get up, there is always hope. There was

always hope. For Kamiyah herself, there is shock and disbelief, as she

watches the woman she thought was her mother, jailed for being her

abductor. The US President-elect,

Donald Trump, has suggested he may drop sanctions imposed

against Russia over In an interview with

the Wall Street Journal, Mr Trump said he would retain

the sanctions "at least for a period of time"

but could scrap them if Russia was helpful to the US,

for example in fighting terrorism. The committee of MPs overseeing

the Brexit process has called on the government to reveal details

of its plans by next month. The all-party group of MPs also says

the government should reach a transitional agreement

with the EU, to give Our business correspondent

Joe Lynam reports. For months, Britain's largest

employers have been calling for clarity on what type of deal

will emerge post Brexit. Many want a transition arrangement

with the EU so they can plan Today, MPs on both sides

of the Brexit argument, piled more pressure on Theresa May

by calling for exactly that. We think any return to tariffs

or bureaucratic obstacles would not be in the interests of British

business and the committee believes transitional arrangements will be

needed to smooth the process as we leave the European Union,

particularly if there were to be any changes to the way we trade

or the way we sell our services. This group of MPs and business

want to know whether Britain wants to remain within the single market

and they want to give MPs And if a deal can't be reached

within the two-year time frame, they want a transitional phase

to smooth the process out One of the key sectors in all

of this is the City of London, which provides more than a tenth

of UK tax revenues. Critics say that's what

the government should be protecting. We should spend the two

years of negotiations on the financial services,

ensuring the city is OK. We don't need

a transitional arrangement. The EU's chief Brexit

negotiator Michel Barnier, warned there wouldn't be any special

deals to protect UK On Tuesday, the Prime Minister

gives a key speech It's far from certain though

that she will be able to provide the detail that many on both sides

are now demanding. Football and Premier League leaders

Chelsea play Leicester this evening, without their leading striker Diego

Costa. The player's been central

to Chelsea's success this season. But there are claims he's fallen out

with his manager and talk of a multi-million pound move

to the Chinese Super League. Here's our Sports

reporter Patrick Gearey. Where there is Costa, there is

danger. The Premier League's top scorer is a headache for defenders,

but now it seems also for his manager. Diego Costa will not play

against Leicester this evening after a dispute with the coach over his

fitness. Reports emerged last mike. Big-money interest in the player

from China. Yesterday Chelsea's manager was shy about his team

selection. I have, honestly I have to check a couple of situations and

then decide tomorrow. The pull of the East recently Lord O, now on an

estimated ?400,000 a week. China has been the destination of John Obi

Mikel and Didier Drogba, who left in 2012. Costa has been offered ?30

million a year by an unnamed Chinese club, so why stay? He is at his

peak. The team is built around him, absolutely, totally. He is a top

player. If he wants to go to China and be bored for 18 hours a day,

good luck with that. Harry Kane offered the perfect example of a

striker's value in the Premier League. His hat-trick moved Spurs

second behind Chelsea. Costa offered his support on social media as they

prepare to play Leicester, but Chelsea will be worried about

Chinese cheque-books. There's more throughout the evening

on the BBC News Channel,