:00:00. > :00:09.taken ill at a dance event tonight. There is also a first
:00:10. > :00:16.Good evening. A GP in Oxford says he's prepared to take the NHS to
:00:17. > :00:20.court if it forces him to hand over his patients' confidential medical
:00:21. > :00:23.records without their consent. The NHS is planning to automatically
:00:24. > :00:26.take the data from every practice and hospital and store it on a
:00:27. > :00:29.central computer. But Dr Gordon Gancz says he's worried the
:00:30. > :00:38.information could end up in the wrong hands. Tom Turrell has the
:00:39. > :00:42.story. It goes without saying, your medical records are confidential,
:00:43. > :00:46.between you and rour doctor, or does it? The NHS in England is, from
:00:47. > :00:52.April, planning to start storing your records on a vast database and
:00:53. > :00:57.anl ising, unless you tell it not to. It says it is to help to were
:00:58. > :01:02.tekt the country's healthcare needs in the future, but one Oxfordshire
:01:03. > :01:07.doctor said that he is worried that the information could be sold to
:01:08. > :01:10.private companies without patient's permission. He says he will not let
:01:11. > :01:15.that happen. I am not against research. I could
:01:16. > :01:21.not work in a research university unless it was so, but it must be
:01:22. > :01:25.with express consent. No, I am not prepared to release that information
:01:26. > :01:29.without written permission from individual patients.
:01:30. > :01:32.But the NHS won't stand for that. It insists that he is in breach of the
:01:33. > :01:37.Government guidelines. It claims that this is not about selling your
:01:38. > :01:41.medical records on, either but rather, it is about conducting
:01:42. > :01:44.research to improve the healthcare of all.
:01:45. > :01:48.If somebody wants to find out why you went to see your GP last
:01:49. > :01:52.Thursday, they will not be able to do that, but they can identify
:01:53. > :01:57.trends. If lots of people are turning up in general practices with
:01:58. > :02:02.conditions, if that is then spilling over to A departments, resulting
:02:03. > :02:05.in unplanned admissions, we will be able to spot the trends and
:02:06. > :02:09.anticipate them and intervene earlier.
:02:10. > :02:13.So, how do the people of Oxfordshire feel about the plans? I think it is
:02:14. > :02:17.private information. There is enough information out there. I don't know
:02:18. > :02:21.that it bothers me. If they are not getting my name or anything. I would
:02:22. > :02:25.not like it to be shared with a third party, but I have no
:02:26. > :02:30.objections with it being from GP to hospital.
:02:31. > :02:34.The public may be divided but George Ganswein `` Kamal al`Ganzouri say ``
:02:35. > :02:40.Dr Gordon Gancz says he will take the matter to court if pushed.
:02:41. > :02:43.Emergency abdominal surgery is unlikely to return to Banbury's
:02:44. > :02:46.Horton Hospital ` according to health managers in Oxfordshire.
:02:47. > :02:49.People from the town attended a meeting last night about the future
:02:50. > :02:52.of the hospital. Nearly 30 people a week are sent from the Horton to the
:02:53. > :02:56.John Radcliffe for abdominal assessment ` due to a lack of
:02:57. > :02:59.emergency treatment facilities. A 68`year`old woman's died in a crash
:03:00. > :03:03.in South Oxfordshire. Two cars were involved in the crash at Hadden Hill
:03:04. > :03:06.between Didcot and Wallingford on the A4130 during this morning's rush
:03:07. > :03:12.hour. A 20`year`old man suffered minor injuries. An inquest's heard
:03:13. > :03:15.how an Oxford University student who found dead in his student
:03:16. > :03:18.accomodation block had probably fallen down the stairs after a night
:03:19. > :03:24.out drinking. 21`year`old Conor Robinson died last October. Here's
:03:25. > :03:27.Jessica Cooper. Described as a popular and a promising student,
:03:28. > :03:31.conor popular and a promising student,
:03:32. > :03:35.or in his second year at Magdalen College, studying English. The
:03:36. > :03:40.inquest was told as a child he had suffered two brain tumours. On the
:03:41. > :03:44.8th of October, Connor had been for a meal with college friends to a you
:03:45. > :03:50.curry house where they could take their own alcohol. They were then
:03:51. > :03:55.off to a nightclub, but Connor left early as he was drunk. He was walked
:03:56. > :04:01.home by a college friends, who said he was not as bad as some of the
:04:02. > :04:05.others. She left Connor on the an ex`, less than an hour later he was
:04:06. > :04:09.found on the ground floor at the bottom of the stairs with a pool of
:04:10. > :04:12.blood around him. Connor's family were in court today. In a statement,
:04:13. > :04:27.his sister Grace said: Today the coroner recorded a verdict
:04:28. > :04:31.of accidental death, saying he died from a traumatic head injury.
:04:32. > :04:36.Although no`one witnessed what happened after Connor returned from
:04:37. > :04:39.his night out, the coroner said it was likely he fell from the stairs
:04:40. > :04:44.on the first floor. Magdalen College says that everyone
:04:45. > :04:49.is greatly saddened by his death. And a memorial service for Connor is
:04:50. > :04:57.to be held on Saturday before a tree in the college grounds is dedicated
:04:58. > :05:00.to him as a lasting tribute. A West Oxfordshire councillor, who
:05:01. > :05:03.now lives in Thailand, says he won't stand down until the next election
:05:04. > :05:06.in May. Steve Hayward represents Ducklington and Kirtlington ` even
:05:07. > :05:10.though he currently lives more than 80,000 miles away. He'd been
:05:11. > :05:15.claiming an yearly allowance of more than ?4,000 but says he'll only take
:05:16. > :05:19.ten percent of that from now on. A change in the law has been passed
:05:20. > :05:22.which should allow police to step in much more quickly to tackle
:05:23. > :05:25.suspected child sexual abuse. The reform comes in the wake of
:05:26. > :05:28.Operation Bullfinch ` which saw seven men jailed last year for
:05:29. > :05:31.grooming vulnerable young girls in Oxford. It was championed by the MP
:05:32. > :05:35.for Oxford West and Abingdon, Nicola Blackwood, who told me she hopes
:05:36. > :05:41.that children at risk will now be better protected. Well, the
:05:42. > :05:45.Government's new sexual risk orders and sexual harmful prevention orders
:05:46. > :05:51.will make a significant difference to the police on the ground. It will
:05:52. > :05:57.be a new tool. They can step in earlier to protect victims of child
:05:58. > :06:01.sexual exploitation, to disrupt grooming gangs and to make that
:06:02. > :06:06.earlier intervention which up until now, we have seen in too many cases
:06:07. > :06:09.across the country, they have been unable to do.
:06:10. > :06:13.How much difference would it have made in the child grooming case in
:06:14. > :06:17.Oxford? As we know with the case, the case was not brought until trial
:06:18. > :06:23.until after there had been eight years of abuse in Oxford. Talking to
:06:24. > :06:27.the police and in other areas, I know that they lacked the tools to
:06:28. > :06:32.be able to intervene. With this tool, as well as the knowledge that
:06:33. > :06:36.we have now about sexual abuse and different forms of disruption for
:06:37. > :06:38.grooming, they would have been able to act earlier.
:06:39. > :06:43.Thank you. Question Time is coming up after the
:06:44. > :06:51.weather forecast. That is all from everyone here tonight. Good night.
:06:52. > :06:57.A Met Office amber weather warning in force for the first part of the
:06:58. > :07:02.evening tonight. We could see up to an inch of rain from today. The rain
:07:03. > :07:08.will be heavy. Maybe some hail and thunder with the temperatures
:07:09. > :07:12.falling to five Celsius. For some it could abwet start to the day but the
:07:13. > :07:17.good news is, there will be sunshine finally in the afternoon. Maybe one
:07:18. > :07:21.or two showers but most places staying dry during the buck of day
:07:22. > :07:26.light hours with a high of seven Celsius. More rain is expected
:07:27. > :07:30.tomorrow night. That is to continue through the weekend with gales in
:07:31. > :07:38.places. Next up is the national weather forecast.
:07:39. > :07:44.Hello. I think the impact of this wet weather could be felt more
:07:45. > :07:50.widely as time goes on, even in areas which have been unscathed up
:07:51. > :07:53.until now. For now, the focus is on southern England. We have amber
:07:54. > :07:59.weather warnings right through until Saturday. We have another storm
:08:00. > :08:08.heading in. They are queueing up in the Atlantic. The storms will take
:08:09. > :08:12.place of this one which is giving a current spell of what weather this
:08:13. > :08:16.evening and overnight. Wet and windy, particularly through the
:08:17. > :08:28.English Channel. The rain falling snow across higher ground of
:08:29. > :08:33.northern England and Wales. Further north, rather quite a picture across
:08:34. > :08:37.Scotland and Northern Ireland. A touch of frost so icy patches are
:08:38. > :08:41.more of a hazard through the early part of tomorrow morning. Chilly
:08:42. > :08:42.across northern England but cloudy