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Good evening and welcome to the programme. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:08 | |
A BBC investigation has revealed that some local Health Trusts | 0:00:08 | 0:00:11 | |
are offering consultants lucrative overtime payments for extra work. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:16 | |
Last year, one consultant was paid around ?153,000 on top | 0:00:16 | 0:00:18 | |
of his regular salary. | 0:00:18 | 0:00:23 | |
The figures were released under the Freedom of Information Act. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:26 | |
More from our Health Correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:31 | |
To keep up with demand for services and the growing | 0:00:31 | 0:00:33 | |
hospital waiting lists, Health Trusts rely | 0:00:33 | 0:00:36 | |
on consultants to do overtime. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:38 | |
This BBC investigation reveals just how much some Trusts | 0:00:38 | 0:00:42 | |
are willing to spend. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
Last year, the Southern Health Trust spent ?2.5 million on overtime. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:50 | |
Five consultants were each paid more than ?100,000, | 0:00:50 | 0:00:54 | |
with one doctor receiving ?153,000 on top of his salary. | 0:00:54 | 0:01:01 | |
The Northern Health Trust spent over ?849,000. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:04 | |
The Western Trust - ?335,000. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:07 | |
?267,000 was spent at the South Eastern Trust. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:17 | |
The overall figure is incomplete as Belfast, the largest | 0:01:18 | 0:01:20 | |
Health Trust, failed to respond to the request for information under | 0:01:20 | 0:01:23 | |
the Freedom of Information Act. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:26 | |
According to the health union, the BMA, the health service | 0:01:26 | 0:01:28 | |
is forced to pay overtime on this scale because not enough | 0:01:28 | 0:01:31 | |
doctors are being employed. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
We would like Trusts to plan appropriately and to | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
hire more people. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:40 | |
We don't want people doing large amounts of overtime | 0:01:40 | 0:01:42 | |
and being more tired. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:46 | |
Any criticism has been directed at management and the government | 0:01:46 | 0:01:50 | |
for failing to manage the service more efficiently. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:56 | |
We know from dealing with the whole of the NHS workforce that planning | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
has been off the rails for some time. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:03 | |
It has been a big problem in nursing, it is a problem | 0:02:03 | 0:02:06 | |
in social care, and I suppose those who have been managing the system | 0:02:06 | 0:02:10 | |
have got to stop giving us some explanations about why this | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
deficit has occurred. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:23 | |
It is not just criticism about payments for consultants. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
There is widespread condemnation about a system that is haemorrhaging | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
cash and agency staff. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:30 | |
A lot of the discussion was about overtime, | 0:02:30 | 0:02:32 | |
but that is hundreds of thousands of pounds, what about the millions | 0:02:32 | 0:02:35 | |
of pounds spent on locums, the crisis in terms | 0:02:35 | 0:02:37 | |
of general practitioners? | 0:02:37 | 0:02:39 | |
This is a major workforce problem here in Northern Ireland. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:44 | |
The Southern Health Trust said, due to demand, additional clinics | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
have been running at weekends and during bank holidays to help | 0:02:47 | 0:02:51 | |
reduce waiting times. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:56 | |
The police say they're not sure yet how a 45-year-old man fell out | 0:02:56 | 0:03:00 | |
of a window at an apartment block in Newtownards last night. | 0:03:00 | 0:03:03 | |
Two men and a woman are still being questioned about his death. | 0:03:03 | 0:03:07 | |
Martin Cassidy reports. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:11 | |
The 45-year-old died here at an apartment block | 0:03:11 | 0:03:14 | |
near the centre of Newtownards. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:21 | |
Emergency services were called to the Millers house complex just | 0:03:21 | 0:03:24 | |
before eight o'clock last night. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:25 | |
Residents say the man was in an apartment on an upper floor. | 0:03:25 | 0:03:29 | |
The police investigation is continuing and local people say | 0:03:29 | 0:03:31 | |
the man fell from a window onto a courtyard beneath. | 0:03:31 | 0:03:36 | |
I heard the ambulance coming around the corner and looked out and saw | 0:03:36 | 0:03:46 | |
the man lying on the grate that leads down into the car park. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
The man was taken to hospital where he died from his injuries | 0:03:51 | 0:03:54 | |
a short time later. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:56 | |
His death has shocked the local community. | 0:03:56 | 0:04:00 | |
The initial issue for us all is one of shock, | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
almost disbelief perhaps, of what has taken place | 0:04:03 | 0:04:06 | |
here in our own town. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:09 | |
Not too far from where we are, a young man died. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:12 | |
Why did that happen? | 0:04:12 | 0:04:13 | |
Two men and a 29-year-old woman have been arrested as part | 0:04:13 | 0:04:18 | |
of the police investigation. | 0:04:18 | 0:04:24 | |
We are certain that he left through the window, the window, | 0:04:24 | 0:04:27 | |
the top window, we have no indication of the circumstances that | 0:04:27 | 0:04:36 | |
that led up to that, so we don't know if he left | 0:04:36 | 0:04:39 | |
on his own or if someone forced him out through the window | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
and that is the circumstances we are investigating. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:44 | |
We believe there are witnesses. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:45 | |
We know there are people who have not been in touch with us yet. | 0:04:45 | 0:04:48 | |
A postmortem examination will take place tomorrow to determine | 0:04:48 | 0:04:50 | |
the cause of death. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:56 | |
The association representing thousands of rank and file | 0:04:56 | 0:04:59 | |
PSNI officers has called for the Stormont Executive to make | 0:04:59 | 0:05:03 | |
it compulsory for anyone found guilty of assaulting an officer | 0:05:03 | 0:05:07 | |
to be sent to prison. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:11 | |
The Police Federation says fines and non-custodial sentences for some | 0:05:11 | 0:05:13 | |
offences aren't sufficient deterrents. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:16 | |
Our Home Affairs Correspondent Vincent Kearney reports. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:21 | |
This police officer almost lost an ear when hit by a brick | 0:05:21 | 0:05:24 | |
during trouble in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast last July. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:26 | |
Serious injuries are a regular occurrence during riot situations. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:31 | |
Many officers also suffer less serious injuries | 0:05:31 | 0:05:34 | |
when punched, kicked or pushed during scuffles with crowds. | 0:05:34 | 0:05:39 | |
Nearly 600 police officers were injured by some form | 0:05:39 | 0:05:42 | |
of assault during 2015. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:46 | |
That is an average of almost 50 a month. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:49 | |
That is nearly 20% of all frontline police officers. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:54 | |
The Police Federation says politicians and the courts must do | 0:05:54 | 0:05:57 | |
more to protect them. | 0:05:57 | 0:06:02 | |
We have had to stand up for our officers who are being assaulted | 0:06:02 | 0:06:05 | |
on a daily basis. | 0:06:05 | 0:06:06 | |
We want to make the public more aware and make the court take more | 0:06:06 | 0:06:11 | |
action against people who apparently would use weapons against police | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
officers in any way and stop them from doing their duty. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:17 | |
These officers are serving the public, and when we see almost | 0:06:17 | 0:06:19 | |
20% in a year of the frontline service being injured, | 0:06:19 | 0:06:28 | |
an awful picture of what society does to officers. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:30 | |
The Federation has asked for a mandatory custodial sentence | 0:06:30 | 0:06:33 | |
for anyone found guilty of assaulting a police officer. | 0:06:33 | 0:06:39 | |
It wants the new legislation to be part of the next | 0:06:39 | 0:06:42 | |
Programme for Government. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:43 | |
The Federation defends its call for police officers to be given | 0:06:43 | 0:06:46 | |
greater legal protection for members of other emergency services. | 0:06:46 | 0:06:49 | |
Why should police officers be treated differently to other | 0:06:49 | 0:06:51 | |
emergency services, nurses, doctors, ambulance and fire crews? | 0:06:51 | 0:06:55 | |
First of all, we abhor any violence toward public servants. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:58 | |
Anyone would see that there is no justification for assaulting other | 0:06:58 | 0:07:04 | |
public servants, however, police officers often go in to protect | 0:07:04 | 0:07:07 | |
people being assaulted. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:10 | |
Their job involves dealing with aggressive and violent people, | 0:07:10 | 0:07:12 | |
and they need some protection in the law to protect them. | 0:07:12 | 0:07:17 | |
No police force in Europe has this kind of protection. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:22 | |
But it says the high proportion of PSNI officers injured in the line | 0:07:22 | 0:07:26 | |
of duty means tougher laws are justified. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:34 | |
A historic warehouse in Belfast City Centre | 0:07:34 | 0:07:38 | |
is to be refurbished. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:39 | |
Developers have been given the go-ahead to | 0:07:39 | 0:07:41 | |
turn the 150-year-old building into offices. | 0:07:41 | 0:07:43 | |
Our Business Correspondent Julian O'Neill has more. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:47 | |
A new lease of life awaits. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:49 | |
Developers now have permission to turn this listed | 0:07:49 | 0:07:51 | |
building into offices. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:54 | |
Work will take about two years, and will combine the room | 0:07:54 | 0:07:58 | |
and the new with the addition of a Grade A office block. | 0:07:58 | 0:08:02 | |
The Ulster Architectural Heritage Society objects but Belfast Council | 0:08:02 | 0:08:05 | |
have ruled the plan benefits the building and the city. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:10 | |
There have got to be compromises made. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:13 | |
In order to preserve this building, we have had to allow development | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
to the rear of the building. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:18 | |
That might not be to some tastes, but to us it represents a fair | 0:08:18 | 0:08:22 | |
compromise and it is a fair compromise that will | 0:08:22 | 0:08:25 | |
bring great benefits. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:27 | |
This is phase two of the project, following the construction in 2006 | 0:08:27 | 0:08:31 | |
of headquarters for Invest NI. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:37 | |
The warehouse will be refurbished after 25 years of lying empty, | 0:08:37 | 0:08:40 | |
and 17 floors of offices will be built on land currently used | 0:08:40 | 0:08:44 | |
as a car park. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:48 | |
Property agents say the demand for offices | 0:08:48 | 0:08:49 | |
in Belfast remains strong. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:53 | |
We don't have enough space to keep up with the demand. | 0:08:53 | 0:08:57 | |
When buildings like that come onto to the market, there will be | 0:08:57 | 0:09:00 | |
demand and it is great planning coming through on on the building. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:03 | |
We welcome that space coming onto the market. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:10 | |
There have been many warnings that Belfast simply does not have enough | 0:09:10 | 0:09:13 | |
quality office space. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:15 | |
That might currently be the case, but future need is becoming | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
much harder to predict. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:21 | |
There is the unknown impact of Brexit and whether lower | 0:09:21 | 0:09:31 | |
corporation tax will deliver as many new jobs as was initially forecast. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:37 | |
One of the trees at the famous Dark Hedges landmark has fallen | 0:09:37 | 0:09:40 | |
onto the road near Armoy. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:43 | |
It came down during the night, blocking | 0:09:43 | 0:09:44 | |
the Bregagh Road for a time. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:46 | |
The tunnel of trees became famous after it featured | 0:09:46 | 0:09:48 | |
in the series Game of Thrones. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:52 | |
Boxer Carl Frampton is preparing for the biggest fight of his career. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:55 | |
He meets Leo Santa Cruz of Mexico in a winner-takes-all | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
bout this weekend. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:00 | |
Thomas Kane reports from New York. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
This is a fight that Carl Frampton has wanted for a number of years, | 0:10:03 | 0:10:06 | |
and where better for the contest to finally take place than one | 0:10:06 | 0:10:09 | |
of the most famous boxing cities in the world? | 0:10:09 | 0:10:13 | |
He is not taking his opponent lightly. | 0:10:13 | 0:10:15 | |
Santa Cruz is a world champion. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:19 | |
He is taller with a longer reach, but Frampton believes that moving up | 0:10:19 | 0:10:29 | |
a weight division has benefited him physically | 0:10:29 | 0:10:31 | |
and psychologically. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:31 | |
For a normal human being, four pounds doesn't sound a lot, | 0:10:31 | 0:10:34 | |
but how big a difference does it make? | 0:10:34 | 0:10:36 | |
It means a lot to me. | 0:10:36 | 0:10:39 | |
It doesn't seem a lot of weight but my energy levels have been | 0:10:39 | 0:10:42 | |
great, I am about to do a session here. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:48 | |
When I was making superbantamweight, you wouldn't like to talk to me. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:54 | |
I just wasn't enjoying training, but my energy levels are good. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:57 | |
I am eating and drinking plenty. | 0:10:57 | 0:11:00 | |
I have a couple of pounds to go, but I will be strong | 0:11:00 | 0:11:03 | |
and I feel good. | 0:11:03 | 0:11:08 | |
Have you been underestimated by the American boxing public? | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
A little bit. | 0:11:11 | 0:11:12 | |
They are only going by the Gonzales performance which was me | 0:11:12 | 0:11:17 | |
at 65 or 70% of my best. | 0:11:17 | 0:11:21 | |
Disastrous first round, but I won the fight pretty | 0:11:21 | 0:11:23 | |
comfortably after that. | 0:11:23 | 0:11:26 | |
I think they are underestimating me. | 0:11:26 | 0:11:27 | |
I think Santa Cruz is underestimating me. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:32 | |
I hope to change his mind in the first round. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:34 | |
My performance against Gonzales is why these guys are getting brave. | 0:11:34 | 0:11:38 | |
The Santa Cruz fight was because of that. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:41 | |
That wasn't the real me, this will be the real | 0:11:41 | 0:11:44 | |
me on Saturday night. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:46 | |
Now here's Cecilia with the weather. | 0:11:46 | 0:11:51 | |
Hello. | 0:11:51 | 0:11:52 | |
At least it stayed dry today. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:53 | |
It may not have been particularly sunny. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:55 | |
The rain is coming back in tonight, sliding in from the south-west. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:58 | |
It will be raining in most places by the end of the night, | 0:11:58 | 0:12:01 | |
and that will lead into a pretty soggy rush hour tomorrow. | 0:12:01 | 0:12:03 | |
Some heavy rain is likely on Thursday morning, | 0:12:03 | 0:12:06 | |
which will mean some areas of standing water, possibly even | 0:12:06 | 0:12:09 | |
some minor flooding in some places. | 0:12:09 | 0:12:13 | |
Mid-morning onwards, the rain will start to ease off. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:16 | |
It's an area of low pressure, which is slow moving | 0:12:16 | 0:12:19 | |
across the Republic of Ireland. | 0:12:19 | 0:12:21 | |
Rain will also affect southern Scotland, many parts of England | 0:12:21 | 0:12:24 | |
and Wales during the course of the day as well. | 0:12:24 | 0:12:26 | |
Central Scotland, though, seeing the best of the weather | 0:12:26 | 0:12:28 | |
with some sunshine. | 0:12:28 | 0:12:30 | |
Eventually we will see that patchy rain starting to ease | 0:12:30 | 0:12:33 | |
away southwards again mid-afternoon onwards tomorrow. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:36 | |
It should start to brighten up in the north, but it's not | 0:12:36 | 0:12:39 | |
going to be a warm day. | 0:12:39 | 0:12:41 | |
Temperatures in most places not much higher than 16 or 17 Celsius. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
Not the best day for golf tomorrow, for the Northern Ireland Open. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:48 | |
It will be a bit drier, though, through Friday and Saturday. | 0:12:48 | 0:12:52 | |
Friday, it's back into a sunshine and scattered showers set-up. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:55 | |
A cool breeze, especially towards the North Coast. | 0:12:55 | 0:12:57 | |
One or two sharp showers to come as well, particularly | 0:12:57 | 0:13:00 | |
in the afternoons. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:02 | |
And it's similar through the weekend, so some cool nights. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:04 | |
Most places starting dry with some sunshine in the morning, | 0:13:04 | 0:13:08 | |
but there will be some showers breaking out, | 0:13:08 | 0:13:10 | |
particularly in the afternoons when one or two of them | 0:13:10 | 0:13:12 | |
could be on the sharp side. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:14 | |
So, I'm afraid, it's a cool end to the month of July. | 0:13:14 | 0:13:18 | |
That's it for now. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:19 | |
Our next BBC Newsline is at 6:25am in the morning during Breakfast | 0:13:19 | 0:13:22 | |
here on BBC One. | 0:13:22 | 0:13:26 | |
You can also keep updated with News Online. | 0:13:26 | 0:13:28 | |
Goodnight. | 0:13:28 | 0:13:30 |