:00:23. > :00:30.Hello, welcome. Tonight, which are at the Thackeray medical museum as
:00:30. > :00:34.we look at the future of the NHS. Here is what is on the show.
:00:34. > :00:38.With the bill running into hundreds of millions, we investigate the
:00:38. > :00:41.cost of medical negligence claims on a maternity wards.
:00:42. > :00:48.Knowing that he died because of somebody else's mistake, because
:00:48. > :00:53.somebody did not do what they should have done, is unacceptable.
:00:53. > :00:57.Also, the countdown has begun to the biggest shake-up in NHS history.
:00:57. > :01:01.Phil Hammond finds out what it means the patience.
:01:01. > :01:09.The Government is bringing in the marketplace model, introducing more
:01:09. > :01:12.choice and competition and putting local GPs in charge. Will it work?
:01:12. > :01:16.After the high point of the Olympics, what next for women's
:01:16. > :01:20.football? It is freezing tonight, and a look
:01:20. > :01:26.how many girls have turned up. That shows so much dedication and
:01:26. > :01:30.commitment. Across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire,
:01:30. > :01:37.hospital trusts are paying out millions every year in compensation,
:01:37. > :01:43.one of the biggest claims relating to maternity services. Almost 180
:01:43. > :01:46.million over the last five years. Why? We have been looking at one
:01:46. > :01:56.hospital in Yorkshire that has been at the centre of a series of
:01:56. > :02:00.
:02:00. > :02:04.Jeremy Hunt has warned NHS managers they cannot expect to keep their
:02:04. > :02:14.jobs if they are failings under their care. There is a long way to
:02:14. > :02:42.
:02:42. > :02:45.It has had a troubled record. John and Marianne Steel had been trying
:02:45. > :02:55.to have a baby for six years. Then, in 2007, aged 42, Marianne found
:02:55. > :02:56.
:02:56. > :03:00.out she was pregnant. We were at the doctors, getting it confirmed.
:03:00. > :03:07.Miraculously, I had become pregnant. Marianne was booked into Pontefract
:03:07. > :03:13.General Infirmary to have her baby. We knew he was a boy from early on,
:03:13. > :03:18.you could see it from the first scan. We were all set. Nothing to
:03:18. > :03:28.do, apart from deliver. Five days after her due date, Marianne went
:03:28. > :03:31.
:03:31. > :03:40.to the Infirmary to be induced. It was established later that from
:03:40. > :03:42.about 11am that morning, their baby boy was in serious distress. But a
:03:43. > :03:45.series of failures meant that the heart trace wasn't interpreted
:03:45. > :03:48.correctly, a blood test which would have raised the alarm wasn't
:03:48. > :03:51.carried out and the consultant in charge didn't come to examine
:03:51. > :04:00.Marianne when things were becoming critical. In the end, it was four
:04:00. > :04:05.hours before an emergency caesarean was carried out. That the time,
:04:05. > :04:09.they were not classifying it as an emergency crash Caesarean. Nobody
:04:09. > :04:12.that had access to the information was aware that there was a critical
:04:12. > :04:22.problem. By the time their baby was born, the situation had reached
:04:22. > :04:28.crisis point. The paediatrician told me he was not breathing up,
:04:28. > :04:35.and they had spent 10 minutes also trying to resuscitate him. If he
:04:35. > :04:40.went on for much longer, he would have severe brain damage. When
:04:40. > :04:50.Marianne came round, John had to tell her their son was dead.
:04:50. > :04:59.
:04:59. > :05:04.could not believe it. I wanted to die. And of the couple came here to
:05:04. > :05:09.have their first baby in 2010. were finding that we were having a
:05:09. > :05:14.boy, so we could prepare. They got his room ready, we got his clothes
:05:14. > :05:17.and his baby books, with his pictures. We were very excited.
:05:17. > :05:25.Everything was going to plan, but they were surprised by the advice
:05:25. > :05:29.they received when they went to Dewsbury Hospital. My waters broke
:05:29. > :05:35.late on, but we were sent away again to return on the Wednesday
:05:35. > :05:39.morning. Is that longer than national guidelines dictate?
:05:40. > :05:45.should be within 24 hours. They told us it was against policy to
:05:45. > :05:51.induce on an evening, because of staffing levels, so they would only
:05:52. > :05:55.did it in a morning. Did that alarm you? Yes, I questioned at a few
:05:55. > :05:58.times with the midwife. To reduce the risk of infection, Sarah should
:05:58. > :06:01.have been given the option of an induced birth within 24 hours. But
:06:01. > :06:06.her delivery was delayed by staff shortages, missing equipment and a
:06:06. > :06:16.policy of avoiding assisted births at night. She had a caesarean 61
:06:16. > :06:16.
:06:16. > :06:20.hours after her waters had broken. I could see everything that was
:06:20. > :06:27.happening. Others tried to block her due to make sure she could not
:06:27. > :06:32.see. One of the nurses said, it is not looking good. That was the
:06:32. > :06:40.first indication we had. Eventually, one of the consultants came up to
:06:40. > :06:44.us and said, we regret to inform you that it has been so long now,
:06:44. > :06:47.there is no sign of life. Lawyer Rachelle Mahapatra won compensation
:06:47. > :06:50.for both families after the Mid- Yorkshire Hospitals Trust admitted
:06:50. > :06:58.liability. In the past two years, she's noticed the Trust's name
:06:58. > :07:04.coming up time and time again. did have a disproportionate number
:07:05. > :07:08.of babies over a period of time that we noticed they had been a
:07:08. > :07:15.number of stillbirths or neonatal deaths within the border. We
:07:15. > :07:23.sometimes see patterns, and we saw a lot of still births in Pontefract
:07:23. > :07:28.and Jewsbury over a period of time. Mistakes can be expensive. The NHS
:07:28. > :07:33.has paid out more than �12 million to settle childbirth compensation
:07:33. > :07:36.claims against the trust in the last five years. Two years ago, an
:07:36. > :07:39.independent review of the Trust's Women's Services was set up because
:07:39. > :07:41.of concerns about low staff morale, the rising number of patient
:07:41. > :07:44.complaints and an increase in adverse events. The atmosphere in
:07:44. > :07:47.the delivery suite at Dewsbury Hospital was chaotic and the staff
:07:47. > :07:56.appeared to be busy and under stress, said a report from the Care
:07:56. > :08:01.Quality Commission last year. One expert on midwifery says working on
:08:01. > :08:06.an understaffed maternity unit is frantic and fragmented. They are
:08:06. > :08:11.told there are not enough midwives, so they have to go and help out on
:08:11. > :08:14.the Labour Board, and then they have to go to theatre. Midwives are
:08:14. > :08:17.moved to plug the gaps in the service which is crumbling. Some
:08:17. > :08:21.women are trying to opt out of hospital altogether and want an
:08:21. > :08:29.independent midwife for continuity of care. Some midwives are leaving
:08:29. > :08:35.the NHS because of work pressure and low morale. I did meet a
:08:35. > :08:40.midwife when I was in a large hospital, with a woman who said,
:08:40. > :08:44.today has been task orientated and not anything to do with Kevin. I
:08:44. > :08:46.thought, how sad. The Mid-Yorkshire Trust say the Care Quality
:08:46. > :08:49.Commission now recognises that their maternity services have
:08:49. > :08:58.improved, and they say they're sorry about what happened to the
:08:58. > :09:03.Steels and the Schofields. I am sorry about the circumstances that
:09:03. > :09:07.they experienced. Very difficult circumstances, and they got a poor
:09:07. > :09:10.experience. There is nothing I can say that will make them feel any
:09:11. > :09:15.better, other than I can assure them and everybody else that this
:09:15. > :09:20.will never happen here again. would you say to those women that
:09:20. > :09:24.are worth it? We have done a lot in the last year to make changes. I
:09:24. > :09:29.will be able to say without any shadow of a doubt that the quality
:09:29. > :09:31.of care here is as good as anywhere else in the country. Following her
:09:31. > :09:37.emergency caesarean, Sarah Schofield is unable to have
:09:37. > :09:39.children. It took Sarah and her husband a year to find out why
:09:39. > :09:49.their baby had died. He'd got pneumonia, almost certainly caused
:09:49. > :09:52.by the late delivery. I completely blind myself, and I did for quite a
:09:52. > :09:57.long time afterwards. It was only when we went to the court and we
:09:57. > :10:01.found out it was the fault of the trust and the guidelines had not
:10:01. > :10:03.been followed... John and Marianne Steel complained to the General
:10:03. > :10:05.Medical Council about their baby's death. An independent report
:10:05. > :10:15.concluded that their care fell seriously below the standard
:10:15. > :10:17.
:10:17. > :10:20.expected, but the GMC cleared the doctors involved of misconduct.
:10:20. > :10:23.Knowing that he died because of somebody else's mistake, because
:10:23. > :10:30.somebody did not do what they should have done or could have done
:10:30. > :10:35.to help, is not acceptable. Totally unacceptable. I will never accept
:10:35. > :10:39.it. For most people, having a baby is the happiest day of your life,
:10:39. > :10:42.and hospitals remain a very safe place to give birth. But when
:10:42. > :10:52.things go wrong, there's a heavy cost, and some families are still
:10:52. > :11:00.
:11:00. > :11:10.Still to come tonight, the England footballer Sue Smith on whether the
:11:10. > :11:12.
:11:13. > :11:17.women's game can ever rivalled the This museum charts the history of
:11:17. > :11:23.medicine, and for the past 65 years, it has been the NHS that has looked
:11:23. > :11:26.after us when we are AAL. But in 10 weeks, the NHS will undergo the
:11:26. > :11:32.biggest reorganisation in its history. What changes are planned
:11:32. > :11:35.and how will that affect us as patients? We have asked Dr and
:11:35. > :11:38.comedian Phil Hammond to investigate.
:11:38. > :11:42.This is lovely, madam, because this inhaler would actually go with your
:11:42. > :11:47.coat. And a free examination. Do you want to come here and cough,
:11:48. > :11:50.sir? I can give you those half price. I'm a GP. And today I'm
:11:50. > :11:53.taking healthcare into the community, where it's needed. All
:11:53. > :11:56.the sample bottles you could ever need and I'll throw in a crutch.
:11:56. > :12:00.It's all free. It's all paid for. This is what the biggest shake-up
:12:00. > :12:03.in the history of the NHS is all about - giving local doctors,
:12:03. > :12:10.nurses and patients the chance to call the shots and shop around for
:12:10. > :12:13.the best care. At least that's the Government's plan. But many doctors
:12:13. > :12:20.think the reforms are untested, expensive and over-complicated - a
:12:20. > :12:23.view I shared with the former health secretary Andrew Lansley.
:12:23. > :12:26.The difficulty with this is that it's 353 pages of wonk. It's
:12:26. > :12:30.absolutely impossible to understand it. I choose my words carefully. It
:12:30. > :12:33.is unreadable. What did you actually say? It's wonk. But I've
:12:33. > :12:37.been wading through the jargon, and it's clear the reforms will affect
:12:37. > :12:42.us all. It's vital we put politics aside and try to understand exactly
:12:42. > :12:49.what they'll mean for patients. Until now the NHS has been like a
:12:49. > :12:52.big supermarket chain that only sells its own brands. It's a one-
:12:52. > :12:55.stop shop where all the tricky decisions are made for you. In
:12:55. > :13:05.theory, you should get the same high quality care whether you live
:13:05. > :13:20.
:13:20. > :13:23.in Scunthorpe or Southend. But like It were? So if I just check your
:13:23. > :13:27.eyes there. I can confirm you have two eyes. We're doing two X-rays
:13:27. > :13:30.for the price of one. And I can throw in a free brain scan if you
:13:30. > :13:34.like. One change we're told patients should notice is care much
:13:34. > :13:37.closer to home. Hospitals and GPs will have more freedom to bring in
:13:37. > :13:42.innovative ideas. Technology might monitor your health at home and
:13:42. > :13:45.routine surgery could be done at high street clinics. Hospitals in
:13:45. > :13:50.Gloucestershire have already teamed up with a charity to send this
:13:51. > :13:55.mobile chemotherapy unit into rural communities. For cancer patients
:13:55. > :14:00.like Graham Freeman, it's a lifeline.
:14:00. > :14:03.The concept is great, moving the treatment to the person. Because it
:14:03. > :14:06.is a bit of a trauma, suffering from the chemotherapy and the
:14:06. > :14:13.travelling. Bringing the treatment closer to the person is a lot
:14:13. > :14:16.better. You do feel a little bit better.
:14:16. > :14:20.But could this shift towards more localised care mean hospitals will
:14:20. > :14:23.have to close? To find out I've come to London, to one of the
:14:23. > :14:32.world's most respected independent think tanks on health policy - the
:14:32. > :14:35.King's Fund. I don't think we'll see many hospitals closing as a
:14:35. > :14:37.result of care coming closer to home. It will mean hospitals
:14:37. > :14:41.changing their roles, perhaps fewer A&E departments, fewer maternity
:14:41. > :14:44.services provided in existing hospitals. But that could be to the
:14:44. > :14:46.benefit of patients if we're able to plan that in the appropriate way
:14:46. > :14:51.and get better outcomes by concentrating those services in
:14:51. > :14:55.fewer hospitals. You might not be keen though, if it's your A&E
:14:55. > :15:00.that's closing. The second thing patients should
:15:00. > :15:03.notice is more choice. Three tomatoes for a pound! Anybody?
:15:03. > :15:07.Three inhalers for the price of two. Come and get them! Two caulies,
:15:07. > :15:10.�1.50 over there! We've got a separate queue here for six
:15:10. > :15:15.symptoms or less. Competition in the NHS isn't new,
:15:15. > :15:21.but the reforms step it up a notch. The NHS will become a marketplace,
:15:21. > :15:25.with private companies competing with the NHS for business. So when
:15:25. > :15:32.your GP says you need a scan, your options may look less like this,
:15:32. > :15:38.and more like this. But it should be quality, not price, that will
:15:38. > :15:40.decide which are allowed to offer care. It's already happening here
:15:40. > :15:49.on the high street, where Specsavers are treating NHS
:15:49. > :15:52.patients in 218 of its hearing centres. When I came to Specsavers,
:15:52. > :15:58.they do private and NHS, which I find is better than going to the
:15:58. > :16:05.hospital. You know you go to the hospital, there's a lot of
:16:05. > :16:14.travelling and I don't think you get such a personal attention. So
:16:14. > :16:16.this is much, much better. The plan is for patients like Doreen to
:16:16. > :16:19.choose their provider by looking at new performance league tables.
:16:19. > :16:25.companies must play by the rules and can't encourage NHS patients to
:16:25. > :16:28.go private. Ultimately, Specsavers want to protect the NHS work that
:16:28. > :16:35.we've managed to gain here and we don't want to do anything to try
:16:35. > :16:41.and jeopardise that. We're not going to try and sell a hearing aid.
:16:41. > :16:44.More competition could drive up standards and lower costs. But if
:16:44. > :16:50.profits slip, companies could pull out or even go under, leaving
:16:50. > :16:54.patients in the lurch. Remember the collapse of Northern Rock? Imagine
:16:54. > :16:58.if its customers had been queuing not for their life savings but for
:16:58. > :17:01.life-saving surgery. If there is going to be a bigger role for
:17:01. > :17:03.private companies in delivering care to patients, then there is
:17:03. > :17:06.always a possibility, however remote, that that company will not
:17:06. > :17:10.be successful, that we will see something like Northern Rock in
:17:10. > :17:13.healthcare. The Government's anticipating that. It's putting in
:17:13. > :17:15.place what's called a "failure regime" so that the regulator can
:17:15. > :17:23.intervene and ensure continuity of services even if the organisations
:17:23. > :17:28.are not providing care to the right standard. The third thing patients
:17:28. > :17:31.may notice is a shift in their relationship with their GP. So if I
:17:31. > :17:34.said, "Trust me, I know the best place to go to get your heart
:17:34. > :17:41.surgery". Would you say, "Yeah, you're the doctor. Dr Phil, you
:17:41. > :17:44.look like a ginger George Clooney. I love, I trust you?" Since the
:17:44. > :17:48.birth of the NHS, doctors have taken the trust of patients for
:17:48. > :17:52.granted. But as GPs offer more and more treatments, they could find
:17:52. > :17:55.themselves referring patients to their own services. Add private
:17:55. > :18:03.companies into the mix and there's real scope for a conflict of
:18:03. > :18:07.interest. So just open really wide. Say "Ah". That's great, thank you.
:18:07. > :18:10.But should we really be worried? In Bath, Jasmine Bishop is seeing a GP
:18:10. > :18:13.on the NHS. But believe it or not, he actually works for Virgin. Yes -
:18:13. > :18:18.they of planes, trains and super- fast broadband fame also run this
:18:18. > :18:23.walk-in centre, along with 170 other NHS services. Although you
:18:23. > :18:26.wouldn't know it from the branding. As Virgin takes over more of the
:18:26. > :18:29.NHS, what's to stop you referring patients on to another Virgin
:18:29. > :18:36.service to make money for the company, rather than in the best
:18:36. > :18:38.interests of the patient? All of our GPs, like any GP in the country,
:18:38. > :18:44.have to offer patients a choice when they're being referred for
:18:44. > :18:49.another service. So in the end, it's down to the patient to choose
:18:49. > :18:51.where they go. And of course, GPs and other clinical staff have a
:18:51. > :18:55.professional responsibility too to make sure that they're finding the
:18:55. > :19:00.best care for their patients. That doesn't differ because those GPs
:19:01. > :19:04.are employed by us. And you have to ask if patients really mind who
:19:04. > :19:09.provides their care. Did you know that this health centre was run by
:19:09. > :19:13.Virgin? No. Would it make any difference to you as a patient
:19:14. > :19:17.whether it's run by an ordinary NHS GP or a private company? No. So all
:19:18. > :19:25.that matters to you is, what? What do you care about in your
:19:25. > :19:29.treatment? That I get the best treatment I possibly can get really.
:19:29. > :19:33.The bottom line is that if you have a good idea to improve your care,
:19:33. > :19:37.tell your GP. If he or she can make it happen, we know the reforms are
:19:37. > :19:40.working. It's been a huge upheaval just to get the NHS to listen to
:19:40. > :19:50.patients. And I hope for all our sakes it works. I can't lug all
:19:50. > :19:53.
:19:54. > :19:59.this back again. Come on, it's got Football is not just our national
:19:59. > :20:05.game, it is an obsession. Stories about players fill the newspapers.
:20:05. > :20:10.What about the women's game? Can the sport ever rival men's
:20:10. > :20:20.football? England international and Doncaster Belles winger, Sue Smith
:20:20. > :20:28.
:20:28. > :20:32.has been trying to find out. That win over Brazil at Wembley
:20:32. > :20:35.last summer marked the peak of women's football in this country. A
:20:35. > :20:42.record crowd of more than 70,000 watched our opening game of the
:20:42. > :20:45.Olympics. Sadly, I was looking on from a TV studio. But as I try to
:20:45. > :20:48.regain my fitness after the serious injury that kept me out of last
:20:48. > :20:53.summer's Games, I've been looking at the sport I love from a
:20:53. > :20:57.different perspective. I'm lucky enough to play for one of the few
:20:57. > :21:01.clubs where the women are allowed to use the same pitch as the men.
:21:01. > :21:11.But the sad truth is that for some of our games, we'd only fill the
:21:11. > :21:11.
:21:11. > :21:16.number of seats that surround me here in a stadium that holds 15,000.
:21:16. > :21:19.Men's football is advertised. as if women's football has not as
:21:19. > :21:22.important that we should be entitled to be on television as
:21:22. > :21:25.well. How do we bridge the beautiful
:21:25. > :21:28.game's gender gap then? You'll see a day in the life of two teenage
:21:28. > :21:34.stars of the future from the same club. But do they demonstrate just
:21:34. > :21:37.how ingrained inequality remains in football? It's a January night and
:21:37. > :21:42.pre-season training starts here for me and my Doncaster Belles team
:21:42. > :21:47.mates. Thankfully we're indoors. After signing for Doncaster Belles
:21:47. > :21:51.I only made one appearance. I scored and minutes later suffered a
:21:51. > :22:00.terrible knee injury. I feared it could be the end of my playing days.
:22:00. > :22:04.I went from elation to despair in moment. But that's football. I have
:22:04. > :22:08.not kicked a ball in eight months and the physio has said I can kick
:22:08. > :22:12.the ball tonight for a start I can't wait. I am a little bit
:22:12. > :22:16.nervous but here goes! The women's Super League is a
:22:16. > :22:19.summer sport and we don't kick off until March. Doncaster Belles were
:22:19. > :22:24.the top team in the league a few years back but recently results
:22:24. > :22:26.haven't been so good. We're hoping to put that right this time around.
:22:26. > :22:30.I've played for four different clubs including Leeds and Lincoln
:22:30. > :22:38.Ladies on the way to winning 93 England caps and I'm hoping for a
:22:38. > :22:47.few more years and goals before I hang up my boots. But I'd like to
:22:47. > :22:51.help raise the profile of the women's game at the same time. I
:22:51. > :22:56.have come as for a little breather. It is so good to be that, I am
:22:56. > :22:59.absolutely loving it. A little bit of a breather and then back on.
:22:59. > :23:02.One of team mates I'm looking forward to playing with is Kasia
:23:02. > :23:06.Lipka this season. She's a good example of just how hard it is for
:23:06. > :23:11.the top talent to make ends meet in the women's game. She's been an
:23:11. > :23:15.England international for the last four years. But I reckon she'd
:23:15. > :23:19.probably be better off financially if she had a part-time bar job. How
:23:19. > :23:22.did you get into football? brother, who is three years older
:23:22. > :23:29.than me, key words always playing and I wanted to do what he was
:23:29. > :23:34.doing. When I started I started in a boys' team. I used to turn up on
:23:34. > :23:38.the boy is used to say, they have got a girl. When I was about 11 I
:23:38. > :23:41.joined a girls' team. This is Jordan Ball, he's the same
:23:41. > :23:44.age as Kasia and in his first year as a professional at Doncaster
:23:44. > :23:47.Rovers. He trains with the first team squad and looks to have a
:23:47. > :23:51.bright future in the game. But despite Kasia being a regular
:23:51. > :23:54.first teamer, her life is very different to Jordan's. He's a full
:23:54. > :23:58.time salaried footballer now and can concentrate 100% on developing
:23:58. > :24:08.his talent. He knows that if he makes it he can earn thousands of
:24:08. > :24:12.pounds a week. I know when I can go home I can play pool of have a nap
:24:12. > :24:17.in the afternoon. A lot of my friends at university doing
:24:17. > :24:19.coursework. It is a relief. No such relief for Kasia. She's on
:24:19. > :24:25.a sports scholarship at Leeds University currently cramming for
:24:25. > :24:29.exams. And she has to train every day on top of her university work.
:24:29. > :24:34.How do manage to combine studying and being a semi-professional
:24:34. > :24:39.footballer? I get up about 8 o'clock and all my flat mates asked
:24:39. > :24:44.him in bed. I have got to go and do my lectures, or training, might get
:24:44. > :24:49.back at about 10 at night. It is follow-on. It would be nice to
:24:49. > :24:56.fully concentrate on my football which a male on my age would be
:24:57. > :25:01.able to do. She would be on a decent sum of money. Do you think
:25:01. > :25:08.women's football would develop more if we had were full-time
:25:08. > :25:13.professionals and? If you add on the lower leagues of men's football,
:25:13. > :25:16.when people are part-time, it is not of a good standard. There are
:25:16. > :25:19.some really good women players out there.
:25:19. > :25:23.Keen to make an impression, Jordan's the last to leave the
:25:24. > :25:26.training field but he opts for a session in the weights room.
:25:27. > :25:32.Then it's off home with the afternoon to do as he pleases
:25:32. > :25:36.before training the next morning. And this is where Jordan hopes to
:25:36. > :25:40.be playing regularly soon. Doncaster Rovers are at the top of
:25:40. > :25:44.League One. They could do with a win today at home to Colchester to
:25:44. > :25:47.keep up their hopes of automatic promotion back to the Championship.
:25:47. > :25:50.I remember coming here on match day when they'd given away free
:25:50. > :25:53.entrance to our game with the Donny Rovers ticket and the match was
:25:53. > :25:57.straight afterwards but the crowds just streamed out past me. I'm
:25:58. > :26:01.thinking free pies next time. So what do we have to do to get the
:26:01. > :26:09.crowds in? I decided to ask my manager John Buckley who played for,
:26:09. > :26:17.among others, Leeds and Celtic. Do you think that we can ever get a
:26:17. > :26:20.state where we are compared to the men's game? I think we are making a
:26:21. > :26:24.mistake to compare. You know yourself the standard of the girls'
:26:24. > :26:32.game is getting better and better. The quality of the women's game is
:26:32. > :26:37.that they keep the ball. We are equal in them in a lot of ways.
:26:37. > :26:43.When the ball goes do either box then you can see the physicality of
:26:43. > :26:48.the game. If somebody is six photo annual fight for it, that physical
:26:48. > :26:51.aspect is going to show. -- is somebody is six foot and you are
:26:51. > :26:55.firefight. I've joined a Sheffield Wednesday
:26:55. > :26:59.girls training session. There are eight junior squads and the club
:26:59. > :27:02.has 139 players aged from seven to 28-years-old. So, it's as good a
:27:02. > :27:05.place as any to take a health check on the future of the women's game.
:27:05. > :27:09.As you can see it is absolutely freezing here tonight and look how
:27:09. > :27:14.many girls have turned up. That just shows how much it dedication
:27:14. > :27:21.and commitment from the players and the coaches as well. Can I ask who
:27:21. > :27:27.is your favourite footballer. Jermaine Johnson. Wayne Rooney.
:27:27. > :27:30.I was not expecting that on! When I started playing football my role
:27:30. > :27:36.model was Ryan Giggs because there weren't any women footballers are
:27:36. > :27:40.made to look up to. Who wants to play for England and? Yes.
:27:40. > :27:43.And why not? Kasia Lipka used to play at Sheffield Wednesday. Now
:27:43. > :27:46.she's with the England squad ahead of a foreign training camp, while
:27:46. > :27:49.fitting in a bit of revision of course. But if she reaches full
:27:49. > :27:54.international status she'll earn �20,000 a year, less than half a
:27:54. > :27:58.day's pay for Wayne Rooney. The ladies game remains the poor
:27:58. > :28:05.relation from the grass roots up to the top clubs. But things have
:28:05. > :28:09.improved. Watching these young girls really makes me feel
:28:09. > :28:15.optimistic about the future. Their appetite for the game, technical
:28:16. > :28:19.ability and enthusiasm is inspiring. And what's even better, it's
:28:19. > :28:27.happening up and down the country. Who knows, the stars of Rio 2016
:28:27. > :28:31.might be playing on a pitch near you.
:28:31. > :28:36.That is all from us for tonight. Remember, if you have got a story