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Millions of pounds in debt, short of staff and other investigations | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
for poor standards of care. What can be done to turn around the | :01:20. | :01:30. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 2332 seconds | :01:30. | :40:22. | |
- is a warm welcome to your local part of the show. We're talking | :40:22. | :40:26. | |
about the state of the NHS this week and the serious problems and | :40:26. | :40:35. | |
our hospitals. The political party that seems to have no problems | :40:35. | :40:42. | |
finding members. I have been to meet UK's newest recruits. The | :40:42. | :40:46. | |
Government has admitted their problems in the North East economy | :40:46. | :40:53. | |
as unemployment went up again. The government seems to think there are | :40:53. | :41:03. | |
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particular problems, is that affair commit? Unemployment is higher now | :41:06. | :41:09. | |
than at the last election but the biggest worry is the young people | :41:09. | :41:19. | |
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who have been out of employment for a long time. Is there a particular | :41:20. | :41:28. | |
problem in the North East? Since 2012, it is down year-on-year but | :41:29. | :41:34. | |
is there a particular problem in the North East? We have the highest | :41:34. | :41:41. | |
rates in the hall of the country so that has to be of concern. And we | :41:41. | :41:44. | |
are not making progress and until we get growth back into the economy | :41:44. | :41:52. | |
we will not see jobs created. there a danger here? There is talk | :41:52. | :42:02. | |
of recovery but is there a danger the North's could be left behind? | :42:02. | :42:08. | |
Your correspondent, when these results came out on Wednesday, | :42:08. | :42:11. | |
there was the news that youth unemployment had fallen, | :42:11. | :42:19. | |
particularly given by the growth of apprenticeship schemes. Over all, | :42:19. | :42:22. | |
the figures are relatively flat and perhaps the most interesting | :42:22. | :42:27. | |
feature of this difficult economic time has been that we have not seen | :42:27. | :42:33. | |
it enormous increases in unemployment and over all across | :42:33. | :42:37. | |
the country, we saw the highest level of employee that we have ever | :42:37. | :42:46. | |
seen. People unemployed for a long time it is doing a lot of damage. | :42:46. | :42:50. | |
The longer people unemployed, before the recovery and the harder | :42:50. | :42:57. | |
to find work. That has always been true. We have particular problems | :42:57. | :43:00. | |
in the North East because if we have an economy that is more | :43:00. | :43:04. | |
dependent on the public sector and has a smaller private sector than | :43:04. | :43:10. | |
any other part of the country. issue has to be addressed. Good | :43:10. | :43:20. | |
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jobs are being created and they are coming through Nissan and a catchy. | :43:23. | :43:32. | |
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-- Hitachi. Our top story this week is the NHS and queuing and concerns | :43:33. | :43:38. | |
about the out-of-hours service. All the signs of a health service under | :43:38. | :43:47. | |
pressure but it is in Cumbria that problems appear to be most acute. | :43:47. | :43:52. | |
He an inquiry into high death rates at hospitals in Carlisle is | :43:52. | :44:02. | |
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expected to report soon., and I was utterly shocked. Not being fed, no | :44:05. | :44:11. | |
water, using the wrong plasters on her and ripping her skin. After the | :44:11. | :44:19. | |
week of this, she died pretty quickly. She was 94 when she went | :44:19. | :44:24. | |
into the Cumberland Infirmary for a routine procedure. The coroner | :44:24. | :44:30. | |
questioned some of the treatment she received. This is the NHS, | :44:30. | :44:35. | |
something we believe will look after us. She would have been | :44:35. | :44:41. | |
better off not in hospital. She is not alone in her concerns about | :44:41. | :44:46. | |
level of care. Inspectors visited the hospital in March and herb | :44:46. | :44:50. | |
similar worries from other patients with hospital staff raising their | :44:50. | :45:00. | |
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own issues. Patients were in wet One simple way to improve care | :45:06. | :45:10. | |
would be to fill those vacancies but there is a man going problem | :45:10. | :45:17. | |
with recruitment. 102 new nurses have been employed since September | :45:17. | :45:24. | |
but there are still 55 vacancies at the trust. Looking at some of the | :45:24. | :45:27. | |
text in the staff survey looking at the more numbers and who would | :45:28. | :45:33. | |
recommend it as a place to work or receive care, it is an indication | :45:33. | :45:39. | |
of how low the morale is. If I was coming from the outside looking to | :45:39. | :45:48. | |
apply for a job there, that would have a serious impact on me. | :45:48. | :45:51. | |
Trust says it is focusing on recruitment but not solely on | :45:51. | :45:57. | |
nursing staff. I am very concerned about morale and we are already | :45:57. | :46:02. | |
working on this and it is not just about nursing numbers but how we | :46:02. | :46:11. | |
are supported on the wards. Some of the problems here are experienced | :46:11. | :46:17. | |
elsewhere like long waits at A and D and Hospital for bugs. The trust | :46:17. | :46:24. | |
you also has money worries. The trust this year and needs to save | :46:24. | :46:30. | |
�16.8 million and on top of that, it has �7.7 million of debt and has | :46:30. | :46:37. | |
been recognised as a crust put at risk because of its PFI agreements. | :46:37. | :46:42. | |
The Cumberland Infirmary was the first PFI hospital and the country | :46:42. | :46:49. | |
and it's estimated running costs are now 10 times the original sum. | :46:49. | :46:53. | |
Let's not be deluded ourselves and blame the problems on the PFI | :46:53. | :47:00. | |
scheme because that has Backley not true. Public funding will pay for a | :47:00. | :47:07. | |
�90 million redevelopment at the West Cumbria Hospital. Both | :47:07. | :47:11. | |
measures should go some way to improving care but in isolation, it | :47:11. | :47:19. | |
will not let pressure on the and the staff. It is estimated that by | :47:19. | :47:25. | |
2033, 38% of the population here will be over 60 so demand is only | :47:25. | :47:35. | |
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going to grow. We need to provide care closer to home. That is why | :47:36. | :47:43. | |
funding is so essential. In the future, Alex is hoping people like | :47:43. | :47:52. | |
her mum can have more confidence in Cumbria's hospitals close up they | :47:52. | :47:59. | |
Carlile MP met the Minister this week. | :47:59. | :48:08. | |
The important thing was to get across the fact that I want to see | :48:08. | :48:11. | |
the targets are met and they want to make sure the date is next full | :48:11. | :48:15. | |
sup why has there been no involvement from the Department of | :48:15. | :48:20. | |
Health before? There is ongoing involvement and the reason I got | :48:20. | :48:23. | |
involved with in the light of the recent reports which makes for | :48:24. | :48:29. | |
uncomfortable reading. I want to reassure the Minister that I think | :48:29. | :48:36. | |
the right thing for Cumbria as for Northumbria to take over. Part of | :48:36. | :48:41. | |
the problem as financial and they have to make a lot of savings. | :48:41. | :48:48. | |
there not more the government could do? That is something we will have | :48:48. | :48:53. | |
to discuss. What efficiency savings can be made and what resources are | :48:53. | :49:00. | |
available. You talk about efficiency savings but the staff | :49:00. | :49:04. | |
here will say they cannot make any more efficiencies, they are already | :49:04. | :49:13. | |
stretched. You s, but if you only have one management, there will | :49:13. | :49:18. | |
undoubtedly be some savings there. There are also systems and | :49:18. | :49:25. | |
processes that can be Brotton to improve care and make savings. | :49:25. | :49:28. | |
Northumbria will have to discuss what the Department of Health what | :49:28. | :49:35. | |
sort of funding they will need. NHS is under pressure all over the | :49:35. | :49:41. | |
region not least at accident and emergency departments. Thousands | :49:41. | :49:50. | |
waiting for ambulances and the fiasco of the 101 number. What we | :49:50. | :49:54. | |
are not doing is arguing over the overall level of expenditure | :49:54. | :49:57. | |
because that is the one the are apart from overseas development | :49:57. | :50:05. | |
that has been completely protected. The question is how we run and that | :50:06. | :50:13. | |
minister the National Health Service. 15 years ago, when my | :50:13. | :50:19. | |
daughter was taken ill I phone the GP. We did not cornea accident and | :50:19. | :50:25. | |
emergency, but these days, that would not happen. The out-of-hours | :50:25. | :50:33. | |
services from GPs are not the same as what they wear. The last | :50:33. | :50:39. | |
government managed to produce a situation where we had an | :50:39. | :50:48. | |
undermining of the out-of-hours services as well as adding to costs. | :50:48. | :50:53. | |
If lead put that specific example to Bridget Phillips. To blame | :50:53. | :51:03. | |
something that happened in 2004 is nonsense. We have seen an increase | :51:03. | :51:07. | |
in older patients who are not getting the care they need because | :51:07. | :51:13. | |
of massive cuts to social care. There is not the right support | :51:13. | :51:19. | |
we're to get them home. David Cameron said there would be no more | :51:19. | :51:23. | |
top-down the organisation is and what has resulted is chaos and | :51:23. | :51:26. | |
confusion and the biggest reorganisation in its history. He | :51:26. | :51:32. | |
also said that waiting times would not increase but may have more than | :51:32. | :51:35. | |
double it's the number of patients waiting more than 24 hours in the | :51:35. | :51:45. | |
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last year. What is Labour's solution? Roll back to 2010? | :51:47. | :51:52. | |
Treasury were seeking to massage the figures. We what money put into | :51:52. | :51:56. | |
social care to make sure that people were getting the right help | :51:56. | :52:02. | |
they need. Older patients are often having to wait a great deal of time | :52:02. | :52:08. | |
and it is dead distressing. I have seen many troubling cases like this. | :52:08. | :52:13. | |
There simply is not enough money going in to the NHS and to social | :52:13. | :52:20. | |
care and that is what is putting the pressure on? There would be | :52:20. | :52:24. | |
more credibility at the Shadow Chancellor gave in the indication | :52:24. | :52:30. | |
he would supply more money, which he has not. It comes back to a | :52:30. | :52:35. | |
number of individual issues. We saw how it could be to do with | :52:35. | :52:38. | |
management of the hospitals and historic issues like paying for PFI | :52:39. | :52:48. | |
contracts. This was not a great time to start to shake things up. | :52:48. | :52:56. | |
You through it all the pieces into the year. The additional problem to | :52:56. | :53:00. | |
deal West is the ageing population and the demands on the NHS are | :53:00. | :53:06. | |
constantly growing. It is not enough for things to stay the same. | :53:06. | :53:13. | |
We have to find improvements and efficiencies. We have to be careful. | :53:13. | :53:17. | |
The 101 service was a pioneer in the North East that works very well | :53:17. | :53:22. | |
there. There may be problems elsewhere but we should not | :53:22. | :53:29. | |
undermine the service which will make people feel less confident. | :53:29. | :53:36. | |
The other aspect is BPs I and other hospitals affected by this. It is | :53:36. | :53:44. | |
like paying for the hospital on a credit cards. The biggest concerns | :53:44. | :53:49. | |
at accident and emergency waiting times... What PFI and estate? | :53:50. | :53:55. | |
at know enough. As was said in the peace, there are lessons to be | :53:55. | :54:01. | |
learned but at the moment, the most pressing issue is the Andy waiting | :54:01. | :54:09. | |
times. Government Ministers have been looking for scapegoats. First | :54:09. | :54:15. | |
the GPs and their immigrants and now the patients. We wore have to | :54:15. | :54:23. | |
wrap that up. We haven't got time! And other big story this week, an | :54:23. | :54:28. | |
announcement by Jeremy Hunt about children's hearts or jury. Once | :54:28. | :54:38. | |
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again, the future of heart surgery units in the North East. | :54:42. | :54:46. | |
Tyneside Labour MPs have criticised the decision to suspend a review | :54:46. | :54:54. | |
into children's heart surgery which has so caller cost �6 million. Nick | :54:54. | :55:04. | |
Brown says young patients were not being per it first. | :55:04. | :55:14. | |
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I really do feel rather than clinical judgment. Flat defences in | :55:15. | :55:19. | |
Morpeth have been at inspected. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg | :55:19. | :55:26. | |
was in the region on Friday. It planned to get passenger trains | :55:27. | :55:32. | |
running once again has moved a step closer after a tumble on council | :55:32. | :55:38. | |
met with Network Rail to discuss options. Passenger trains here were | :55:38. | :55:47. | |
axed in the 1960s. Their opinion poll rating may have | :55:47. | :55:51. | |
dipped since the local elections but there is no doubt UKIP are on a | :55:51. | :55:58. | |
that of our role. They became the official opposition in South | :55:58. | :56:03. | |
Tyneside after three independent councillors joined the party. Their | :56:03. | :56:06. | |
most notable achievement is recruiting new members, some of | :56:07. | :56:11. | |
whom have never joined a political party before. | :56:11. | :56:19. | |
Tradition means a lot in North the Archer. Richmond and surrounding | :56:19. | :56:24. | |
villages have have Conservative MPs for 100 years. Not everyone is | :56:24. | :56:28. | |
convinced you should stick with what you know. There is a growing | :56:28. | :56:35. | |
force here that wants to shake things up. It wants to change its | :56:36. | :56:45. | |
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politics. Here are three of the revolutionaries. Until April, one | :56:46. | :56:52. | |
was a Conservative councillor, one that once represented Labour, and | :56:52. | :57:00. | |
UKIP is the first party this woman has joined. Why sign up? It is down | :57:00. | :57:05. | |
to the fact the what to give us our referendum and the chance to speak | :57:05. | :57:09. | |
on the EU. It would not just the reaction to the established parties | :57:09. | :57:15. | |
but because I thought I may have something to say. Working with the | :57:16. | :57:21. | |
public, I saw that UKIP fitted with the people of this country | :57:21. | :57:29. | |
particularly where ILF. They just understand. It is common sense. | :57:29. | :57:34. | |
While many of the views sound conservative, they have no | :57:34. | :57:41. | |
enthusiasm for David Cameron. are Orcadia politicians with no | :57:41. | :57:47. | |
real experience of life. How on earth can the understand the | :57:47. | :57:53. | |
problems. You have to relate to people to understand what is going | :57:53. | :57:58. | |
on with their lives and then improve things. A enough of tea and | :57:58. | :58:04. | |
sympathy, time for tough love. If you thought UKIP, you will get the | :58:04. | :58:10. | |
opposite of what you want. Labour will get into power as you will not | :58:10. | :58:20. | |
getting referendum. If they all thought UKIP, that will be great. | :58:20. | :58:25. | |
UK it is not a protest vote any more and that is just a get-out for | :58:25. | :58:29. | |
the Conservatives and Labour and the Liberals to say it is a wasted | :58:29. | :58:39. | |
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vote. Five years ago, maybe, but not now. A is irrelevant whether we | :58:41. | :58:44. | |
will get a Prime Minister or a government. We believe it is right | :58:44. | :58:53. | |
and that is as far as we need to just that by it. Where we have at | :58:53. | :58:59. | |
the moment, I'll be with them for a long time. I have put too much time | :58:59. | :59:04. | |
and effort into wanting to make this work. I was married to the | :59:04. | :59:08. | |
wrong man in the Conservative Party and I have met the right party for | :59:09. | :59:18. | |
me. David Cameron once dismissed UKIP as a bunch of fruitcakes but | :59:18. | :59:27. | |
these three are convinced something is stirring. | :59:27. | :59:33. | |
These people should be looking to the Conservatives? Athalia on your | :59:33. | :59:42. | |
party's part? UKIP is pooling from all parties and he will find as | :59:42. | :59:51. | |
many people who used to vote Labour. It is not surprising that in the | :59:51. | :59:57. | |
map turn you get people that are worried and look to other parties. | :59:57. | :00:06. | |
It has happened before or and happened in the 1980s. These things | :00:06. | :00:14. | |
happen. Their perception, the Mrs Sally disagree with policies but it | :00:14. | :00:22. | |
is that their party is dominated by people from Eton. They are have not | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
met Eric Pickles's! There is a mixture. David Cameron surrounds | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
himself with public school boys. That is a perception you have to | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
address. People will ask themselves, who do they what to run the | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
country? Do we what the Labour Party or the Conservatives who are | :00:44. | :00:52. | |
getting us out of this mess. Ed Miliband or her David Cameron. The | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
vast majority of people looking at UKIP will make a different decision. | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
This is a rejection of mainstream politics and that this solution. | :01:03. | :01:11. | |
They are looking for a mother home. They are of particular concern to | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
the Conservatives but we take nothing for granted. It is a | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
challenge for politicians and all mainstream parties to listen to | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
people's legitimate concerns. It is the Tories who are facing the | :01:24. | :01:32. | |
biggest challenge. I knew getting this level of membership inquiries? | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
We have seen a big increase in membership since 2010. What is | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
important is that the what to be treated as a serious party, their | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
policies deserve scrutiny. The what to cut maternity leave and scrap | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
paternity leave altogether. Decriminalisation of prostitution. | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
If the lot to be as serious party, they deserve the same scrutiny as | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
any other party but come the general election, it will be asked | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
great fight between Labour and the Tory East. This may not cause | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
billion hate any sleepless nights but in the marginals, this could | :02:13. | :02:22. | |
crucify you? UKIP are most well known for wanting the referendum on | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
the European Union and the only way they will get that is if David | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
Cameron becomes the next Prime Minister. Voting for or any others, | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
you will not get that. To you short-circuit this and offer a | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
referendum? David Cameron is offering four years of uncertainty. | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
We don't think this is the right time to have a debate about Europe. | :02:50. | :02:54. |