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