:00:09. > :00:15.Tonight, celebrating Sillitoe. We are at Nottingham Contemporary on
:00:15. > :00:20.the trail of one of the city's most famous writers. Also coming up:
:00:20. > :00:25.Paying the price for a medicine mix-up. He thought it was his
:00:25. > :00:32.medication and within a couple of days it had killed him.
:00:32. > :00:38.Plus the sickening attacks on the best of man's best friends. People
:00:38. > :00:44.have to be responsible. If their dog air attacks and assistance dog,
:00:44. > :00:49.they are taking a way that person's freedom. And the voice of the
:00:49. > :00:54.people. Sillitoe's story is on. hope we have taken a book and have
:00:54. > :01:01.been able to show lots of different ways you can imagine that book. It
:01:01. > :01:11.is really important people realise richer -- literature can be a way
:01:11. > :01:18.
:01:18. > :01:22.When researchers here in Nottingham started looking into prescriptions
:01:22. > :01:28.written by family doctors, they found that one in 20 contained an
:01:28. > :01:32.error. While most turned out to be minor, occasionally those errors
:01:32. > :01:42.can be life-threatening. We explore the human consequences of medicine
:01:42. > :01:49.
:01:49. > :01:56.Modern medicines save lives and we trust our GPs and pharmacists to
:01:57. > :02:02.get it right, but picking up your prescription can be a gamble.
:02:02. > :02:10.It was terrible. I really felt ale when I realised that the chemist
:02:10. > :02:18.had made a blunder. He took it thinking he was his medication and
:02:18. > :02:22.after a couple of days, it had killed him. It in England, we get
:02:22. > :02:29.through 2.5 million prescriptions a day, more than 900 million a year.
:02:29. > :02:32.That is billions and billions of pills. But you only have to browse
:02:32. > :02:38.your local papers to seek the scores of stories about minor mix-
:02:38. > :02:42.ups. There are some much more serious cases. For two years,
:02:42. > :02:46.Harold Moody's family from Lincolnshire have been fighting for
:02:46. > :02:51.answers. Now for the first time since his father's death, Philip
:02:51. > :03:01.has agreed to talk on camera. He wants to highlight the problem of
:03:01. > :03:05.medicine mix-ups in our hospitals. He went into ANA -- Accident and
:03:05. > :03:11.Emergency, was kept overnight and came home with somebody else's
:03:11. > :03:18.medication, two bottles of methadone. He took that over the
:03:18. > :03:22.weekend, thinking it was his medication, and that was it. Have
:03:22. > :03:28.you any idea how that methadone got mixed up with your father's
:03:28. > :03:31.medication. It had come from the hospital and had originally been
:03:32. > :03:36.prescribed for the person in the next threat to him. How my father
:03:36. > :03:44.has actually finished up with it, nobody is really clear. You just
:03:44. > :03:54.could not make it up. It sounds so far-fetched. In hospital where they
:03:54. > :03:57.
:03:57. > :04:01.are supposed to be trained professionals. It is tragic. You do
:04:01. > :04:06.not always check your medication. You expect, or I thought, as they
:04:06. > :04:09.had sent him home from hospital, the nurses had given the ambulance
:04:09. > :04:16.people his back and everything, so I've would have thought that at the
:04:17. > :04:21.age of 81 they would do it for him. So it is a tragic situation how it
:04:21. > :04:28.has turned out. It is still unclear how the mephedrone became mixed in
:04:28. > :04:31.with Harold's medication but the coroner reported the hospital
:04:31. > :04:40.should have stored the drugs securely, as was their policy. So
:04:40. > :04:44.the family fights for answers. Medicine mix-ups of this magnitude
:04:44. > :04:48.are thankfully rare but how common are minor errors? We put this
:04:48. > :04:57.question to the NHS. It is almost impossible to measure every mix-up
:04:57. > :05:01.in medicine, so we focused on prescribing. Our findings BA
:05:01. > :05:05.identified more than 1,200 incidents across England in 2011,
:05:05. > :05:09.more than half in hospitals. More than a third happened in the
:05:09. > :05:14.community pharmacies. The rest were in places like GP surgeries and
:05:14. > :05:23.community nursing. Most were minor errors. 63 caused some kind of harm
:05:23. > :05:27.and in the East Midlands, there were 89 incidents, two cause harm.
:05:27. > :05:31.Dr Tony Avery from Chillwell in Nottingham has carried out his own
:05:31. > :05:38.research for the General Medical Council. It suggests GPs are making
:05:38. > :05:44.too many mistakes when prescribing drugs to patients.
:05:44. > :05:48.Your research was about prescribing errors in GP surgeries and it found
:05:48. > :05:54.one in 20 there are problems with. That seems quite high. It is. I
:05:54. > :05:58.would like to reassure viewers that the vast majority of prescriptions
:05:58. > :06:02.are done safely and effectively. It is probably no different to what
:06:02. > :06:05.you would find in other parts of the world or even in a hospital.
:06:05. > :06:10.from all your research, how can things get better? There are
:06:10. > :06:13.several ways in which we think things can be improved. They can be
:06:13. > :06:20.improvements to our GP commuter system which are already very good
:06:20. > :06:25.but we can make them better. -- computer systems. To make sure that
:06:25. > :06:29.we do get alerts for the more serious things. Also there is GP
:06:29. > :06:33.training. Some of the young doctors in our study pointed out that they
:06:33. > :06:38.felt that while they have very good training overall, they felt they
:06:38. > :06:42.could have done with more attention to prescribing and prescribing
:06:42. > :06:47.safely, particularly prescribing for a patient with complex health
:06:47. > :06:51.needs or multiple medications. It is important for all of us to work
:06:51. > :06:55.together to try to reduce the risk of errors and get the number down
:06:55. > :07:00.substantially over time. While Tony's research is a concern,
:07:00. > :07:04.according to the NHS data we obtained, mistakes from your GP are
:07:05. > :07:09.small compared to mix-ups at community chemists. I am meeting
:07:09. > :07:14.Rita Parsons from Mansfield, whose supermarket pharmacy accidentally
:07:14. > :07:18.swapped the labels on her and her husband's medication, one for a
:07:18. > :07:25.heart condition, the other for advanced stages of cancer.
:07:25. > :07:30.Why defected did have on your husband? -- what effect did it have
:07:30. > :07:35.on your husband? He could hardly move because he had only got a few
:07:35. > :07:40.months left to live, and I do not think he knew what to do anyway.
:07:40. > :07:49.he was dying with cancer and you work, effectively, taking his
:07:49. > :07:54.medicine? Yes. It is shocking. What happened when he confronted the
:07:54. > :07:59.pharmacy? When I came out of hospital after ten days, she said
:07:59. > :08:04.it was not the same pharmacist, she said, these should not have hurt
:08:04. > :08:08.you. They are only iron tablets anyway. I said I want to speak to
:08:08. > :08:15.the manager because it should not have happened. Anyway, the manager
:08:15. > :08:19.promised an investigation. Did you get an apology? From him, yes. He
:08:19. > :08:26.said he would get in touch with head office and they sent me a
:08:26. > :08:34.bunch of flowers. But it was her attitude. She could not care less.
:08:34. > :08:39.These should not have hurt you. But they did. A simple error which may
:08:39. > :08:43.reach's final few months with her husband even harder. I am meeting
:08:43. > :08:46.Sibby Buckle. As well as a Nottingham pharmacist, she is on
:08:46. > :08:50.the board of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. I want to
:08:50. > :08:54.know how patients can feel reassured? What sanctions can take
:08:54. > :09:01.place against a pharmacy who gets it wrong? There is the ultimate
:09:01. > :09:05.sanction. They can be struck off. You read about doctors being struck
:09:05. > :09:10.off be -- by the GMC. Somebody might not be allowed Sue practice
:09:10. > :09:14.for a period of time. We have to learn and we have to say, where can
:09:14. > :09:18.we make improvements? One is the transfer of care from hospital back
:09:18. > :09:22.into the community, back into your home, and secondly, shared care
:09:22. > :09:27.records. At the moment there are records in the GP's surgery and in
:09:27. > :09:31.the pharmacy that we do not share that information. Sharing patience'
:09:31. > :09:34.medical records is something we have to look at going forward
:09:35. > :09:42.because we will really start to move into that area you are talking
:09:42. > :09:45.about, which is we do not want errors to take place. Dennis Aucote
:09:45. > :09:50.was from South Derbyshire. His doctor mixed up as his surname with
:09:50. > :09:56.another patient and his pharmacist then failed to properly identify
:09:56. > :10:02.him, so he took her in the wrong tablets. Dennis died after an
:10:02. > :10:05.allergic reaction. Thankfully, areas like this are rare but the
:10:05. > :10:10.advice is pay close attention to the tablets in your hand and double
:10:10. > :10:16.check their of the one you have been prescribed. That way, you will
:10:16. > :10:22.reduce the odds of a medicine mix- Sound advice. Still to come, the
:10:22. > :10:28.small screen that is helping bring Sillitoe city closer to hand.
:10:28. > :10:32.Across the UK, there are more than 4,500 working guide dogs and for
:10:32. > :10:38.their own as they are absolute lifeline. But attacks against them
:10:38. > :10:43.are on the increase. Eight a month are set upon by other dogs. We sent
:10:43. > :10:48.Phil Upton to find out why and just to warn you, some of the images in
:10:48. > :10:53.his cell are disturbing. Richard Wise and his guide dog
:10:53. > :10:57.Scrumpy were paying a routine visit to their local post office. It is a
:10:57. > :11:07.journey they had made many times. They were not prepared for what was
:11:07. > :11:08.
:11:08. > :11:13.about to happen. There to that dog... It just locked on to Scrumpy
:11:13. > :11:18.under his neck and it seemed an eternity. It seemed he was locked
:11:18. > :11:23.on for an eternity. The stress that it was causing was considerable and
:11:23. > :11:29.Scrumpy was under a lot of stress as well. I could not see properly
:11:29. > :11:34.to see what was going on but I knew the other dog had locked on. These
:11:34. > :11:39.attacks are taking place all over the country. Here, captured on CCTV,
:11:39. > :11:46.a pit bull has sunk his teeth into a Labrador guide dog called any
:11:46. > :11:54.left. With a frenzy of kicks and punches, the pit bull owner
:11:55. > :11:58.eventually prizes his dog our way. -- away. Peter was on holiday with
:11:58. > :12:05.his dog Leo when a pit bull launched itself out of an open car
:12:05. > :12:10.window. Within seconds, Leo was pinned to the ground. When the dog
:12:10. > :12:14.was being attacked, you have a whole lot of things going through
:12:14. > :12:23.your mind. The main one is the fact that you think you have lost your
:12:23. > :12:30.doc. He is screaming as if there is no tomorrow and you are trying your
:12:30. > :12:34.best to get the dog off, to calm the dog, and you're in tears. To
:12:34. > :12:40.lose a guide dark, you have lost your mobility, your freedom, your
:12:40. > :12:44.independence. Your family lose some of that as well because you then
:12:44. > :12:54.have to stop relying on other people to take you places where the
:12:54. > :13:08.
:13:08. > :13:16.It may sound incredible, but the Guide Dogs for the Blind
:13:16. > :13:26.Association say the attacks on guide dogs have increased.
:13:26. > :13:36.can... Owners be so irresponsible? There of physical and psychological
:13:36. > :13:38.
:13:38. > :13:45.scars. Also, whilst the dog is not working, their owners become
:13:45. > :13:52.prisoners in their own homes. costs �50,000 to train a dog like
:13:52. > :14:02.this, but all of that investment can be lost after one attack. This
:14:02. > :14:12.is what happened to Lottie. She was attacked and became aggressive.
:14:12. > :14:16.
:14:16. > :14:26.was in her prime and now she has had to retire. The funds have been
:14:26. > :14:28.
:14:28. > :14:36.difficult to come by to train bees dogs. Both the animals and their
:14:36. > :14:44.owners live in constant fear of another attack. I live permanently
:14:44. > :14:51.with the fear of being attacked. The knock-on effect is it does
:14:51. > :14:59.affect my mobility. Richard has recently suffered a second attack,
:14:59. > :15:05.knocking him and Scrumpy to the ground. As you can see, he has stop
:15:05. > :15:14.working because he has seen a dog. In this situation, I normally ask
:15:14. > :15:20.the person holding the dock if it is on the lead. If it is restrained,
:15:20. > :15:28.up I will working through slowly which allows him to get his
:15:28. > :15:34.confidence back. That has only happened since the attack? Yes.
:15:34. > :15:40.When he is it on a harness and sees another at dog, he sees it as a
:15:40. > :15:44.threat and he thinks he is going to be attacked. It is almost
:15:44. > :15:50.impossible to imagine what Richard is going through, so the Guide Dogs
:15:50. > :15:59.for the Blind Association put me on a blind Aldwark, assisted by a
:15:59. > :16:09.labrador called Khyber. That was a very strange experience. -- called
:16:09. > :16:10.
:16:10. > :16:20.Iver. I thought I was going to walk into people. Added to that, a
:16:20. > :16:21.
:16:21. > :16:30.couple of other dogs and it becomes complicated. It's difficult because
:16:30. > :16:39.the guide dog doesn't know whether or not other dogs will attack.
:16:39. > :16:49.Jemma Brown's... Has been attacked six times. He was treated here
:16:49. > :16:49.
:16:49. > :16:54.after the worst of those attacks. If the wind was deeper, it could
:16:54. > :17:02.have injured be eyeball itself and there would have been tragic for
:17:02. > :17:07.Gus. It is thought that what makes dogs like Gus good at their jobs is
:17:07. > :17:13.making them vulnerable to attack because they are passive. He has
:17:13. > :17:17.been attacked on a number of occasions and his body language
:17:17. > :17:22.projects he is not confident around other box macro and perhaps that is
:17:22. > :17:25.why they keep attacking him. Guide Dogs for the Blind
:17:25. > :17:32.Association are causing for an urgent change in the law to stop
:17:32. > :17:42.these attacks which they say are creating a climate of fear.
:17:42. > :17:43.
:17:43. > :17:53.would like to see changes in the law to see attacks on assistance
:17:53. > :18:01.
:18:01. > :18:10.box macro treated as a serious crime. -- Assistance dogs. Attacks
:18:10. > :18:18.on guide dogs mostly for outside the law because it is a dog on dog
:18:18. > :18:28.attack and not on the person. However, this man at seen kicking
:18:28. > :18:29.
:18:29. > :18:36.his dog and was sentenced. However, this is only because his pitbull
:18:36. > :18:39.was a breed that had been banned. We will use the legislation we have
:18:39. > :18:44.and any further legislation to bring these people to pass and to
:18:44. > :18:54.make sure for Honourable people have their trust in the police
:18:54. > :18:56.
:18:56. > :19:06.restored. Guide Dogs for the Blind Association are hoping that new
:19:06. > :19:13.laws will be pushed through, so does Peter. He is my eyes and my
:19:13. > :19:20.peers. You do not have the ban dog, you have a bad owner. People need
:19:20. > :19:30.to realise that if their dog attacks and assistance stock, they
:19:30. > :19:32.
:19:32. > :19:38.are taking a way that person's independence. -- Assistance dog.
:19:38. > :19:45.Finally, Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night, Sunday Morning was about
:19:45. > :19:52.working-class people in our region. Now the book is part of a massive
:19:52. > :19:57.website project and from today, you can follow in Sillitoe's footsteps
:19:57. > :20:02.with an app that is being launched today. Alan Sillitoe wrote himself
:20:02. > :20:12.into a list of literature grades. The places and people he knew
:20:12. > :20:14.
:20:14. > :20:24.featured strongly in his work. He put Nottingham and Raleigh bikes in
:20:24. > :20:24.
:20:24. > :20:32.-- on the man. Now there is a phone app and anyone can do his tour of
:20:32. > :20:38.Nottingham. We have taken themes, locations, we have looked at 1958
:20:38. > :20:44.when it was published. There are lots of different layers to have
:20:44. > :20:49.that particular novel. For the last six months the Arts Council and the
:20:49. > :20:54.BBC have funded a project called the Space where Saturday Night,
:20:54. > :20:58.Sunday Morning is explore to see how relevant it is today. It is the
:20:58. > :21:03.only legitimate venture on the site outside London. Sillitoe is still
:21:03. > :21:13.causing a stir outside the capital. I discovered Saturday Night, Sunday
:21:13. > :21:18.Morning and I could not believe it. It completely changed my perception
:21:18. > :21:27.of what authority and rebellion meant and what I could do with my
:21:27. > :21:34.life. I picked up the book in the library. It was a collection of
:21:34. > :21:41.short stories. I read one of them and it opened with local dialect
:21:41. > :21:44.and profanity. To a 13-year-old boy, there was something else. It also
:21:44. > :21:53.validated what was going on around me in my own village in
:21:53. > :21:59.Nottinghamshire. No. 1 in the locations is Old Market Square,
:21:59. > :22:08.Slab Square. It is the centre of Nottingham and the history of
:22:08. > :22:18.rebellion there is incredible. Sillitoe was for the underdog and
:22:18. > :22:19.
:22:20. > :22:29.the downtrodden. The Occupy movement leave just as we started
:22:30. > :22:31.
:22:31. > :22:40.the project. We looked at whether or not Alan Sillitoe as a writer
:22:40. > :22:48.had broken through. Raleigh is so significant to Alan Sillitoe's
:22:48. > :22:52.history, and Nottingham's that it was bound to feature. I have had
:22:53. > :22:58.testimonies from actual workers at Raleigh. It is important because we
:22:58. > :23:03.wanted to see whether Sillitoe did capture what it was like to be a
:23:03. > :23:09.Raleigh worker. I know he worked there and so did many members of
:23:09. > :23:14.his family. The people we interviewed had worked there for 40,
:23:14. > :23:22.50 years and it was important that we listen to them. Here are some of
:23:22. > :23:28.those retired Raleigh workers. Bingo and chat, all with their own
:23:28. > :23:33.tails to complement the one Sillitoe's told. As part of the
:23:33. > :23:42.Space project, Pete Davies is here to tell his story. On Christmas Day
:23:42. > :23:51.I got a gold collards Raleigh. It was the most beautiful thing I had
:23:51. > :24:01.ever seen. I found out years later that my dad had got it one piece at
:24:01. > :24:04.
:24:04. > :24:09.the time. I have to say, I rode around for years on stolen goods!
:24:09. > :24:15.The project is about the present and the future as well. Here, art
:24:15. > :24:23.students at New College Nottingham are tasked with coming up for a
:24:23. > :24:33.design for the mobile phone app. was going along with the theme of
:24:33. > :24:34.
:24:34. > :24:41.Alan Sillitoe's famous saying. didn't know that much, to be fair.
:24:41. > :24:46.I had heard of him, but I did know of the novel as such. I did know of
:24:46. > :24:52.the film though. The point of the project is to raise awareness and I
:24:52. > :25:00.have enjoyed watching the film. Sadly I haven't read the book, but
:25:00. > :25:10.it is on my eight to do list. app allows you to visit the
:25:10. > :25:15.
:25:15. > :25:19.locations. You can also read the text and look at the pictures.
:25:19. > :25:27.students or pick up the theme of drinking and the importance of pubs
:25:27. > :25:33.as community places in Sillitoe's literature. There was an urban
:25:33. > :25:40.legend behind the Lions in that they crowd whenever a virgin or
:25:40. > :25:44.walk past. We have tried to make them look alive. There is a pint of
:25:44. > :25:52.beer inside its stomach to represent the night life around
:25:52. > :26:02.market square. Drinking is a theme on the Space website through allah
:26:02. > :26:23.
:26:23. > :26:28.macro. -- through Al Needham. think Arthur's Seat and was -- I
:26:29. > :26:37.think the main character was fantastic. If he went into a pub
:26:37. > :26:42.now, he would be horrified to. Solitude is something Alan Sillitoe
:26:42. > :26:52.used a fine weather going for a bike ride or fishing. Today, it is
:26:52. > :26:59.something very hard to find. wanted to betray the sense that his
:26:59. > :27:09.solitude possible in the digital age? Is it possible to detach
:27:09. > :27:10.
:27:10. > :27:20.yourself from the world today when we have so many different things.
:27:20. > :27:25.
:27:25. > :27:34.There is a poem about YouTube youth. They have forgotten how to speak,
:27:34. > :27:38.Tyne-Tees conversations, he is a proper little geek. -- types his
:27:38. > :27:43.conversations. There is a lot of content to read and that is the
:27:43. > :27:49.message that they want to pass on - it is important to read as well as
:27:49. > :27:54.embracing all the new ways of doing that. Weeding is important.
:27:54. > :28:00.Sillitoe's father was illiterate. Literature is a great way of
:28:00. > :28:04.escaping. A freak way of escaping. They are also raising money for a
:28:04. > :28:12.Sillitoe memorial in the centre of Nottingham. Something else for
:28:12. > :28:19.people to come and see. We want to generate tourism in Nottingham.
:28:19. > :28:23.There is more to life than London. And here is a special book to mark
:28:24. > :28:33.the completion of Sillitoe's Nottingham Then And Now. You can
:28:33. > :28:38.also find the places he wrote about with the new app. That's it for now.
:28:38. > :28:43.Goodbye. Next week, the incredible story of Claire Lomas, whose