14/01/2017 BBC Weekend News

Theresa May tells GPS to keep their surgeries open longer

Doctors say they're being made scapegoats for the NHS crisis

but the government says the move will reduce

Funding is tight and if GPs aren't going to be open when the public

need them to be open, then that funding can be

directed to other places in the NHS, such as A

An American teenager abducted at birth defends the woman

who claimed to be her mother for 18 years.

And what's the cost for Chelsea without their star striker

as speculation grows over his future?

GPs are being warned they could face funding cuts if they don't

keep their surgeries open for longer.

The Prime Minister says many people are going to hard-pressed accident

and emergency departments because they can't

Doctors say they are being made scapegoats and have accused

the government of failing to address a deepening NHS funding crisis.

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, with doctors warning that patient

Today, the government said GP surgeries were partly at fault,

failing to provide the access that patients need, forcing them

into accident and emergency departments instead.

The government wants surgeries to open from 8am in the morning

to late in the evening and open seven days a week, unless they can

They say they will withhold extra funding unless GPs comply.

I have worked as a nurse for many years in the NHS and I know that

every winter is difficult in the NHS.

But this winter in particular has seen the highest number

And so we have to make best use of our resources.

And funding is tight and if GPs are not going to be open

when the public need them to be open, then that funding can be

directed to other places in the NHS, such as A

But GPs say they're being made scapegoats

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, then all that

would happen is we will undermine the quality of care that 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 departments has been caused more by problems finding beds

for seriously ill patients than it has by overflow from GPs' surgeries.

They say that medically fit patients are clogging up badly needed beds

because of a 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 the funding it needs

and give a firm commitment to take failed private care homes

into public ownership to maintain the social care protection

Research suggests that three in ten people in A would be better

treated elsewhere and the government insists that GPs are vital

It's now ready to take tough measures to see that they do.

Let's speak to our political correspondent, Chris Mason.

Why is Theresa May saying this to GPs now?

The Prime Minister wants to be seen to be on the side of patients, but

the woman I was chatting to earlier, who had a stopwatch on her mobile

phone, she had been waiting for seven hours to get her elderly

mother checked into a bed for care. She was full of praise for the

staff, they were doing as much as possible, she said, but the problem

was that were not enough of them. Theresa May is facing criticism from

all angles, patience, the opposition and trade unions and the

Conservative chair of the Health Select Committee who said it was not

right to be going after and scapegoating GPs. Tonight, in the

Observer, the former head of the civil service, he chairs a London

hospital, said there is enormous fragility across the NHS. She might

expect politically this would be very dangerous for Theresa May, not

least because historically the Conservatives have polled very badly

when it comes to trust in the NHS. Tonight, there is an opinion poll,

just a snapshot, from the Independent and Sunday Mirror

suggesting Theresa May is more trusted than Labour and Jeremy

Corbyn on the NHS and that, despite the headlines she has faced this

week. Chris, thank you very much. A man has died after the clifftop

where he was believed to have been Police were called to the beach

in Thorpeness in Sussex this afternoon following reports that

a man was trapped. Despite efforts by the emergency

services to locate and free him, Donald Trump has said he may drop

sanctions imposed on Russia In a newspaper interview he said

he would retain the sanctions "for a period of time"

but could scrap them if Russia A teenager who was kidnapped

as a newborn baby 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 all her life But the 18-year-old has now

discovered the truth. And today that woman,

Gloria Williams, is behind bars. You have been charged

with kidnapping and we have Kamiyah was stolen from a hospital

in Florida just eight hours after she was born by someone posing

as a nurse. Her family pleaded for help to find

her and police received But it was only in the last year

that they had a breakthrough. She had an inclination beginning

a couple of months ago that she may have been involved in this

in some way. She has a lot to process and a lot

to think about, as you can imagine. Kamiyah's family in Florida have

never forgotten the baby that was snatched from them in 1988

and they have now been She sounds so intelligent

and so respectful and she said Every day you get up,

there's always hope. When I wake up, I believed

she was waking up, too. For Kamiyah herself,

there is shock and disbelief as she watches the woman she thought

was her mother jailed Iraq has said its forces have taken

control of one of so called Islamic State's main bases

in the city of Mosul. It said it's close to capturing

the eastern half of the city. A major offensive has been underway

since October to recapture Mosul 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 the economy time to adapt. 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 transitional 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 that any return to tariffs

or bureaucratic obstacles would not be in the interests of British

business and the committee believes that 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 And they want to give MPs

a vote on the final deal. And if a deal cannot be reached

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

to smooth the process out And 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 is what

the government should be protecting. We should spend the two years

of negotiations on the financial services and ensuring

the City is OK. We don't need

a transitional arrangement. And the EU's chief Brexit

negotiator, Michel Barnier, Responding to newspaper

reports that he wanted a special deal with the City,

Mr Barnier said "non". On Tuesday, the Prime Minister gives

a key speech on her plans It's far from certain, though,

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

are now demanding. Some news just coming in, aid

officials in at least a migrant ship carrying around 100 people has

capsized off back the coast of Libya but only four survivors rescued. It

said a number of bodies have been recovered but poor conditions or

hampering the search for survivors. Now, with news of how Chelsea got

on today without star striker Diego Costa and all the rest

of the sport, we can cross There were eight matches

in the Premier League today. If you don't want to know the scores

you may want to look away now. There was a notable absentee

from the Chelsea side that beat champions Leicester this evening,

the league leaders without their striker, Diego Costa,

amid claims he's fallen out with the club's coaching staff

and talk of a multi-million pound offer on the table to move

to the Chinese Super League. Here's our sports

reporter, Patrick Gearey. At the home of the current

champions, Chelsea showed why they are still favourites to be

the next ones. A 3-0 win at Leicester

is some statement. The only questions

surround a man not here. Premier League top scorer

Diego Costa didn't travel after Reports suggested there

was big-money interest Reports Chelsea's manager says

he knows nothing about. If there are the problems,

you solve the problems That word again - "if" Costa did go,

he would be following the likes of Oscar in heading

for Easters riches. He is earning an estimated

?400,000 a week. China has been the next destination

for other Chelsea players. John Obi Mikel this year

and Didier Drogba back in 2012. Costa has reportedly been

offered ?30 million a year The team is built around him,

absolutely, totally. If he wants to go to China and be

bored for 18 hours a day, Before today's game,

Costa used social media That, like the league table, makes

reassuring reading for Chelsea fans. If football's financial power

is moving East and China wants a star signing,

it's getting harder Watford have led tributes to former

England manager Graham Taylor, At Vicarage Road, where he enjoyed

two spells in charge, a minute's applause was held before

kick-off for the man they called the greatest Watford

manager of all time. Tributes were paid at Wolves,

who played Aston Villa, two sides Taylor also managed

in his 31-year managerial career. The England striker Harry Kane

scored a hat-trick as Tottenham beat West Brom 4-0 at White Hart Lane -

a result which moves them up There were wins for

Burnley, Hull and Stoke. Arsenal enjoyed a 4-0

win over Swansea. Watford and Middlesbrough finished

goalless whilst West Ham A late try for Wasps

in their penultimate pool game has put them on the brink of reaching

the quarter finals of It was some quick thinking

from Dan Robson as he crossed over with just 58 seconds remaining

as his side beat four-time European Elsewhere, Glasgow and

Leicester both lost. Britain's number three Dan Evans

has lost in the final of the Sydney International,

the first time he's He led briefly in a first set

tie-break before succumbing 7-6, Disappointed after the defeat,

the 26-year-old is guaranteed to climb to a new career-high

ranking - just outside the top 50 - ahead of the Australian Open,

which starts on Monday. You can see more on all of today's

stories on the BBC News Channel. Good evening. There will be some

rain around but most of us over the next 24-hour