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In the East Midlands: Calls for the entire board of a hospital trust to | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
resign over botched breast cancer tests and thousands could lose out | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 2176 seconds | :01:34. | :37:50. | |
In the East Midlands, should the entire board of a health trust | :37:50. | :37:55. | |
resign over mistakes over breast cancer tests? Do you know what's | :37:55. | :38:01. | |
happening on November 15th? No, I don't. Know. No, he doesn't know | :38:01. | :38:10. | |
either. My guess at this week are Mark Spencer and Chris Williamson. | :38:10. | :38:15. | |
It is a hot topic, particularly here, how far can you go in | :38:15. | :38:19. | |
defending your home and your family from burglars? The government has | :38:19. | :38:24. | |
said it would change the law to give homeowners more protection. It | :38:24. | :38:33. | |
follows this Leicester couple who protected at their home, and were | :38:33. | :38:38. | |
released without charge. I have to ask you, you are a farmer, would | :38:38. | :38:44. | |
use a gun if you had to defend your property and your family? What I | :38:44. | :38:50. | |
would do, I would defend myself quite vigorously. I don't want to | :38:50. | :38:53. | |
go through the process whether I am legally entitled to do this, or | :38:53. | :38:58. | |
what I am a legally able to do to defend my family, I want to make | :38:58. | :39:03. | |
sure they are safe. Who knows what you are going to think when you are | :39:03. | :39:09. | |
woken up in the morning. You're in your pyjamas, frankly, you just | :39:09. | :39:13. | |
want to defend your children and your wife. You don't want to think | :39:13. | :39:19. | |
through a legal process. vigorously, if you have a gun? | :39:19. | :39:23. | |
vigorously as it takes to make sure my family are safe. To be blunt, I | :39:23. | :39:32. | |
would rather find myself in the dock and by their graveside. | :39:32. | :39:37. | |
far would you go? This is a smokescreen by the government, the | :39:37. | :39:41. | |
true days there has only been 11 prosecutions in the last 15 years | :39:41. | :39:46. | |
where people have overstepped the mark. The Chief Justice has said | :39:46. | :39:52. | |
powers are available to homeowners. What the government were doing were | :39:52. | :40:02. | |
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indulging in a better hyperbole. -- a bit off. They were tried to take | :40:02. | :40:08. | |
attention away from the fact that they have cut police officers. | :40:08. | :40:16. | |
you doing this to be popular? we are not. What is important is | :40:16. | :40:19. | |
the fact that people are concerned that in the Rhone house they are | :40:19. | :40:23. | |
not able to defend their property and their family. It is important | :40:23. | :40:27. | |
that the government sends a clear message. People are worrying about | :40:27. | :40:35. | |
crime. A course they are? Where is the evidence that they are worried? | :40:35. | :40:44. | |
-- of course they are. Borges up in that position, way you are going | :40:44. | :40:51. | |
through the trauma of being arrested. -- put yourself in that | :40:51. | :40:58. | |
position. Isn't there now a danger that burglars will now arm | :40:58. | :41:04. | |
themselves? I think that is completely wrong. The you can't | :41:04. | :41:09. | |
guarantee that. We are speculating. This is about someone having the | :41:10. | :41:17. | |
right to defend themselves. They can already do that! They should | :41:17. | :41:25. | |
not be fearful that they are going to be prosecuted. The government is | :41:25. | :41:30. | |
right to be listening to victims? Of course they are! They are coming | :41:30. | :41:34. | |
up with the wrong solutions. What they should be doing is reversing | :41:34. | :41:38. | |
the decision to get rid of 15,000 frontline police officers, and do | :41:39. | :41:45. | |
something about the causes of crime. Let's turn to the problems at | :41:45. | :41:53. | |
King's Mill Hospital. The watchdog revealed that 120 women were given | :41:53. | :42:00. | |
false results from breast cancer screenings between 2004-2010. The | :42:00. | :42:08. | |
trust has apologised. They have lost �3.9 million because of heavy | :42:08. | :42:15. | |
debts because of a Private Finance Initiative. A lot of your | :42:15. | :42:20. | |
constituents use this hospital, you are calling for the whole board to | :42:20. | :42:25. | |
resign. They have two jobs, they have to look after the finances, | :42:25. | :42:32. | |
and clinical care, they have failed in both. They have to consider | :42:32. | :42:40. | |
their positions. The us resignation, in this case -- does it | :42:40. | :42:47. | |
resignations in this case make anything better? It will not help | :42:47. | :42:52. | |
of 400,000 people who use the NHS Trust. When my constituents go to | :42:52. | :42:55. | |
the hospital, they need to have full confidence that they are going | :42:55. | :43:00. | |
to get the right level of service. We have a new chairman coming in, | :43:00. | :43:09. | |
and what I'm saying is, let him have a clean break. We have a | :43:09. | :43:15. | |
Health Minister for the East Midlands, does she think the board | :43:15. | :43:24. | |
should resign? Speaking as the Minister for Health, it is not my | :43:24. | :43:28. | |
role, it would be quite wrong for me to interfere. It is up to the | :43:28. | :43:33. | |
board, they will make their Rona decision, the local MP has come to | :43:33. | :43:37. | |
his point of view, it will be resolved at a local level, and | :43:37. | :43:42. | |
rightly so. I was absolutely horrified when I heard what was | :43:42. | :43:47. | |
going on. That is the thing that has concerned me the most. It has | :43:47. | :43:53. | |
gone undetected for six years. I am pleased that there are reviews at | :43:53. | :43:57. | |
all levels, we have to find out what went wrong, and why it went | :43:57. | :44:02. | |
wrong. If people are responsible, they are held to account. It should | :44:02. | :44:07. | |
not happen again anywhere else in the country. It is absolutely | :44:07. | :44:11. | |
dreadful. To think that that number of women did not receive the right | :44:11. | :44:20. | |
to treatment, they got the right diagnosis, lives had been lost. It | :44:20. | :44:27. | |
is just a dreadful, we all trust when began a long and have our | :44:27. | :44:32. | |
tests -- when the we go along, and have those tests, we trust the | :44:32. | :44:42. | |
people we have them there. We need a full proofs safe system -- we | :44:42. | :44:48. | |
need a full proof and safe system. Paul Baggaley, you are from Save | :44:48. | :44:50. | |
Newark Hospital Trust, you are concerned that the trust will have | :44:50. | :45:00. | |
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to close, could that happen? Yes, it could. We have had comments from | :45:02. | :45:06. | |
the interim share then, he said he could not promise that the hospital | :45:06. | :45:15. | |
would not clothes. It is very worrying. -- would not close. What | :45:15. | :45:22. | |
would you like to say to Mark Spencer, the local MP? We would | :45:22. | :45:30. | |
like a review of the changes and the effects. We know that the years | :45:30. | :45:35. | |
ago, the Professional Executive Committee warned that the loss of | :45:35. | :45:45. | |
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non-elected care could cost the trust �3 million a year are? -- �3 | :45:47. | :45:54. | |
million a year? The new chairman, I have yet to meet him, but I will be | :45:54. | :46:00. | |
doing so, hopefully we can get the chairman to recognise how hospital | :46:00. | :46:10. | |
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Newark hospital is. -- how important. If they can offer these | :46:11. | :46:17. | |
services, the GPs can be commissioned, we need to make sure | :46:17. | :46:21. | |
that the new board and chairman recognise that Newark has a role to | :46:21. | :46:28. | |
play. I would very much agree with that. You only have to look at what | :46:29. | :46:36. | |
has happened over the years, 75% of category A patients go to Lincoln | :46:36. | :46:46. | |
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and Grantham. We are talking about all sorts of problems, PFI, where | :46:47. | :46:57. | |
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public money is used to pay for private projects, they RMS? -- they | :46:57. | :47:07. | |
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are a mess? They were originally are a conservative policy, and we | :47:15. | :47:21. | |
ran with them. The real issue is that for Mark and his colleagues, | :47:21. | :47:27. | |
they should be stopping the Health Secretary reorganise the NHS, which | :47:27. | :47:35. | |
is going to cost �2 billion. Reductions are paying for this | :47:35. | :47:40. | |
reorganisation. We are the only major party who said we would not | :47:40. | :47:49. | |
cut the NHS. You are spending �2 billion of reorganisation, taking | :47:49. | :47:53. | |
�20 billion out of the NHS. cannot deny that you are making | :47:53. | :48:02. | |
cuts? We are increasing the budget. I have got to say that the | :48:02. | :48:07. | |
downgrading of the hospital started under the Labour Party, and has | :48:08. | :48:12. | |
been finished by the Conservatives. They are both to blame. It is | :48:12. | :48:15. | |
actually about taking money off the balance sheets, and then boring | :48:15. | :48:23. | |
public money which was not going against the deficit, the deficit is | :48:23. | :48:27. | |
actually much worse than you understand because of this PFI. | :48:27. | :48:33. | |
you think the board should resign? I am sure that not everybody is to | :48:33. | :48:37. | |
blame on the board, but it is difficult to look at the situation | :48:37. | :48:46. | |
that we have had in the trust, they have had for chief executives in | :48:46. | :48:53. | |
four years -- they have had four chief executives in four years. | :48:53. | :48:58. | |
They appear to be in a mess. trust has said that they are | :48:58. | :49:07. | |
carrying out a number of reviews, one or the cat the board | :49:07. | :49:11. | |
governments -- one more look at how effective the board is, well that | :49:11. | :49:16. | |
reassure you? It reassured me that they are starting this process, but | :49:16. | :49:23. | |
they could have acted quicker. The warning signs were there years ago. | :49:23. | :49:27. | |
When the health care review was carried out, they were very | :49:27. | :49:34. | |
opportunistic in cutting services. Paul Baggaley, thank you very much | :49:34. | :49:40. | |
for joining us. There is a unique coalition, the | :49:40. | :49:47. | |
rear by local councils are uniting to change the way that benefits are | :49:47. | :49:52. | |
paid. -- to campaign against the way that benefits are being paid. | :49:52. | :50:00. | |
They say it will leave poor people at �200 a year worse off. | :50:00. | :50:04. | |
Meet Wendy Morrison. She's a single mum living in the Aspley area of | :50:04. | :50:07. | |
Nottingham. She struggles to make ends meet. It's about to get | :50:07. | :50:17. | |
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tougher. My council tax is �45 a month, they are looking for 20% on | :50:20. | :50:28. | |
top of that. I do feel about that? -- How do you feel about that? | :50:28. | :50:37. | |
Disgusted. She wants her daughter to have the best in life. Wendy | :50:37. | :50:41. | |
works part-time in a pub but the pay isn't quite enough to get by. | :50:41. | :50:44. | |
She gets government help to pay her council tax bills of a year. 27,000 | :50:44. | :50:48. | |
other people on low incomes in this city also get cash help for their | :50:48. | :50:55. | |
council tax. The government has shifted responsibility for paying | :50:55. | :50:59. | |
out council tax to your local majority, they argue that the | :50:59. | :51:03. | |
figures no longer add up, and thousands are some of the lowest | :51:03. | :51:10. | |
paid people in the country will be out of pocket. It is cutting back | :51:10. | :51:17. | |
Gas and Electric and food, there is nothing else I can do. Can you do | :51:17. | :51:23. | |
that? I am going to have to, it is going to be tough. Three of the | :51:23. | :51:27. | |
councils, Derby, Nottingham and Leicester have joined forces to | :51:27. | :51:30. | |
warn the government that the council tax system could be | :51:30. | :51:36. | |
unworkable. In Derby, just under 15,000 people get help with their | :51:36. | :51:43. | |
bills, pensioners are protected. The government's 10% cut means a | :51:43. | :51:48. | |
bigger cut for the lower-paid. A two parent family will have to find | :51:48. | :51:53. | |
an additional �10 a week. genuinely think it is going to have | :51:53. | :51:57. | |
a devastating impact on the poorest people in this city. We have | :51:57. | :52:03. | |
already seen a sharp increase in poverty levels. This is only going | :52:03. | :52:08. | |
to exacerbate it. You government wants the changes to give the | :52:08. | :52:12. | |
Council's extra incentive to get people on benefit back into full- | :52:12. | :52:18. | |
time work. For Wendy Morris and, finding the right sort of job is | :52:18. | :52:24. | |
not easy in the recession. It is not fair. They need to reconsider | :52:25. | :52:28. | |
read. They are supposed to be helping the order every working | :52:28. | :52:38. | |
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person. -- the order every working person. | :52:40. | :52:50. | |
Judith Spence runs a food project in Loughborough. Do you think about | :52:50. | :52:55. | |
this change in benefits will have a big impact? We are only talking | :52:55. | :53:02. | |
about a few pounds a week, does it make much difference? It really | :53:02. | :53:12. | |
does, �10 when you are earning �140 a month makes a massive difference. | :53:12. | :53:17. | |
It is a vast difference. I have actually been to your place in | :53:17. | :53:24. | |
Loughborough, I have helped out, what amazed me was the wide range | :53:24. | :53:29. | |
of people. There are some people that you expect to need help, they | :53:29. | :53:33. | |
are down on their luck, and have problems with alcohol or drugs, but | :53:33. | :53:39. | |
there were more people than I knew were going to be there. The numbers | :53:39. | :53:46. | |
have gone up exponentially. We are feeding around 130 single people | :53:46. | :53:52. | |
and families each week. I have not tried to do the maths, it just | :53:52. | :53:58. | |
frightens me. It started out with people on benefits he were not | :53:58. | :54:02. | |
getting by, or were misappropriating their benefits, it | :54:02. | :54:07. | |
has now changed to people who have fallen between the cracks. That can | :54:07. | :54:14. | |
happen very easily. What would you say to our politicians? There is a | :54:14. | :54:18. | |
great beer out there. It is a fear of the unknown, a fear that when | :54:18. | :54:24. | |
Universal credit comes in, and the council tax cap, how are they going | :54:24. | :54:31. | |
to cope? One man said to me, every time you give me a few extra tins, | :54:31. | :54:35. | |
I put them are in the back of the cupboard, because I don't know what | :54:36. | :54:39. | |
next year is going to bring. There is a fear that although the | :54:39. | :54:42. | |
government says it has put that information, it is not getting out | :54:43. | :54:50. | |
of the people who needed. Are you taking on board what she's saying? | :54:50. | :54:57. | |
I am. It recognises what pressure council tax puts on people. Some of | :54:57. | :55:01. | |
these authorities have been at the West for putting their council tax | :55:01. | :55:06. | |
up. You have to ask yourself why some local authority is like | :55:06. | :55:10. | |
Nottinghamshire could not put council tax up for four consecutive | :55:10. | :55:17. | |
years, and other authorities are. What you say to Wendy, who is | :55:17. | :55:27. | |
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already struggling, and she is working, she is striving? She and | :55:27. | :55:31. | |
is in the unfortunate position of being under Nottinghamshire County | :55:31. | :55:39. | |
Council, she is putting it up every -- they are putting it up every | :55:39. | :55:46. | |
year. There is no efficiency. is factually incorrect. Let me get | :55:46. | :55:51. | |
this straight. Derby had one of the lowest council tax rates in the | :55:51. | :55:57. | |
region. The real region is not the level of council tax, but the fact | :55:57. | :56:00. | |
that the government is pursuing a shame for proposition where they | :56:00. | :56:05. | |
are proposing a tax rise on the lowest paid workers in our country. | :56:05. | :56:12. | |
At the same time, they again to be giving tax cuts are by over �40,000 | :56:12. | :56:22. | |
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a year to the register. -- to the richest people. You why a Derby MP, | :56:24. | :56:29. | |
and just over 15,000 people will be affected. They will want to know | :56:29. | :56:34. | |
what you're doing about this? important thing is to remember that | :56:34. | :56:38. | |
these cuts are being imposed by Mark's government. Local | :56:38. | :56:42. | |
authorities do not want to make cuts to low-paid workers, what they | :56:42. | :56:48. | |
are trying to do is to minimise the impact on families in Nottingham, | :56:48. | :56:52. | |
Leicester and Derby by coming up with this theme that is protecting | :56:52. | :56:57. | |
them. In the end, it is going to be impossible to protect them, because | :56:57. | :57:04. | |
the government, Mark's government, is reducing the amount of money. It | :57:04. | :57:09. | |
is no good shaking your head, they are reducing the money by 10%. | :57:09. | :57:15. | |
Pensioners have to be protected, so low-paid workers will be affected | :57:15. | :57:22. | |
even worse. Do you think politicians get what you're up | :57:22. | :57:32. | |
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against? No, it needs to be on the ground. People need protection from | :57:36. | :57:41. | |
their council. People on the ground, they rarely hearing about cuts, | :57:41. | :57:47. | |
instead of hearing about protection. They raised protection for | :57:47. | :57:55. | |
pensioners, and war widows. more protection that is available, | :57:55. | :58:01. | |
the more people that are protected, it will mean a reduction on other | :58:01. | :58:11. | |
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people. That is the problem of the scheme. Some authorities are | :58:11. | :58:16. | |
putting council tax is up, and others aren't. Under Labour, | :58:16. | :58:23. | |
council tax doubled. We will have to leave it there. | :58:23. | :58:33. | |
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The other stories making the news in our 62nd round up. 62nd | :58:36. | :58:42. | |
Nottingham's parking levy is costing businesses �8,000. | :58:42. | :58:47. | |
It was a survey by the Chamber of Commerce, finding one in ten | :58:47. | :58:52. | |
businesses considering leaving the city. Rutland County Council wants | :58:52. | :58:58. | |
views on the way it is allocating social housing. They are | :58:58. | :59:04. | |
prioritising, and ensuring it is as fair as possible. A final chapter | :59:04. | :59:13. | |
foray regular, David Parsons is stepping down, apologising to the | :59:13. | :59:21. | |
council's standards committee. John Mann claims he has unearthed | :59:21. | :59:29. | |
stealth taxes, the Chancellor has been a targeting its new buildings. | :59:29. | :59:39. | |
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He says developers building a new Do you know what is happening on | :59:42. | :59:52. | |
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November 15th? Not many people do. No. Now. -- know. I do not know | :59:58. | :00:05. | |
what it is for. The by told it was the Police and Crime Commissioner, | :00:05. | :00:15. | |
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would that ring any bells? No, it wouldn't. A if I told you it was | :00:16. | :00:26. | |
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the Police and Crime Commissioner. I think it is to control policing. | :00:27. | :00:33. |