:00:00. > :00:00.Welcome to BBC Points West with Sabet Choudhury and Alex Lovell
:00:00. > :00:09.The crisis in our heath card ` why a chronic shortage of GPs is leaving
:00:10. > :00:26.It has been devastating. Thd last six months have been the most
:00:27. > :00:30.difficult of my life. It is not just about me but about the patidnts and
:00:31. > :00:37.We'll be finding out what's being done to fix the probldm.
:00:38. > :00:40.Raising the road and stopping the floodwater.
:00:41. > :00:44.Plans to save Muchelney from future devastation.
:00:45. > :00:49.The man who's learnt to run again in memory of the friend who saved him.
:00:50. > :00:52.And how your donation to Chhldren in Need is helping vulnerable
:00:53. > :01:04.A chronic lack of family doctors in one part of Bristol means a local
:01:05. > :01:09.Two part`time doctors who rtn St Martin's Surgery in Knowle say
:01:10. > :01:13.they're resigning, because they just can't carry on with the workload.
:01:14. > :01:17.NHS England now has until Sdptember to find an alternative servhce
:01:18. > :01:27.Dr Holly Hardy feels she can't carry on.
:01:28. > :01:32.She's one of only two part`time partners at this practice in Knowle.
:01:33. > :01:35.Between them, they have 6,000 patients.
:01:36. > :01:37.With this number on the practice's books, thdre
:01:38. > :01:42.But they've been unable to recruit new partners and have both handed
:01:43. > :01:58.I think it was a very necessary decision to make because we could
:01:59. > :02:02.not recruit new doctors. We have had some part`time people who wdre
:02:03. > :02:06.helping us out, but we had to difficult decision about whdther we
:02:07. > :02:09.could maintain clinical standards and ensure the patient safety.
:02:10. > :02:12.The NHS says it will try to keep the surgery open.
:02:13. > :02:16.While the resignations have been accepted, this doesn't mean
:02:17. > :02:29.But that doesn't reassure the MP for the area, who is calling
:02:30. > :02:42.Inevitably, there is a dangdr that people will not be able to get
:02:43. > :02:46.access to doctors that they need. So I have asked that there is `n
:02:47. > :02:51.emergency meeting of all thd doctors practices in the area said that we
:02:52. > :03:02.can make sure that our constituents get access to their GPs.
:03:03. > :03:09.I know a lot of people who tse that surgery. I think that is terrible.
:03:10. > :03:11.There will be some people who will lose their jobs. A lot of pdople
:03:12. > :03:13.without doctors to go to. This is by no means the onlx
:03:14. > :03:16.surgery in the West to find GPs Only last month,
:03:17. > :03:19.Points West interviewed this family doctor who resigned from
:03:20. > :03:22.his practice in protest at what he called unrealistic work pressures
:03:23. > :03:36.caused by Government targets. I feel really upset about it,
:03:37. > :03:37.because I want quality time with my patience, not giving them more drugs
:03:38. > :03:38.to hit targets. A recent survey
:03:39. > :03:40.of 1400 family doctors in the West showed that four out
:03:41. > :03:43.of ten practices found it dhfficult The doctor's trade union saxs
:03:44. > :03:58.the Government needs to act. The problem is, once we start losing
:03:59. > :04:01.doctors and nurses, it is vdry difficult for others to join,
:04:02. > :04:05.because the workload goes up. This is something that we are he`ring
:04:06. > :04:09.about across the country and we have raised it with the government and
:04:10. > :04:09.with NHS England as a matter of urgency.
:04:10. > :04:12.It's now a waiting game for the 6,000 patients waiting to fhnd out
:04:13. > :04:24.Joining us now is Hugh Pym, the BBC's Health Editor.
:04:25. > :04:30.These stories likely to become pattern in the future?
:04:31. > :04:36.I keep the becoming a pattern already. There is no clear data on
:04:37. > :04:39.this, but a series of reports from around the country. I was speaking
:04:40. > :04:43.to a GP in Rotherham yesterday he was saying that he could be the only
:04:44. > :04:52.one left in his practice in a few months time with others wanting to
:04:53. > :04:54.leave the profession. There was a serious threat of closing the
:04:55. > :04:57.practice. A practice in Norfolk that hit the headlines because it he
:04:58. > :05:01.registered 1500 patients and move them to another surgery bec`use it
:05:02. > :05:06.said it could not cope. Another place in Norwich which has had to
:05:07. > :05:10.start cutting back on the sdrvices it offers to students. So this is
:05:11. > :05:15.becoming a pattern. It has to be said that the government is saying
:05:16. > :05:19.that there is not a crisis, they have more money available through
:05:20. > :05:25.the challenge fund for GP strgeries who have innovative practicds for
:05:26. > :05:32.providing patient care, for example over the weekend.
:05:33. > :05:38.There is nonetheless a shortfall. Is there any plan to plug the hole
:05:39. > :05:43.It is difficult to get new doctors to appear if there are not dnough
:05:44. > :05:49.trained GPs at anyone time. But the government has been trying to raise
:05:50. > :05:53.the number of GP training places. It seems as if a target for th`t has
:05:54. > :05:57.slipped slightly, but the government says it is trying to do somdthing.
:05:58. > :06:04.There is the wider question about the fine `` funding of the NHS. It
:06:05. > :06:08.is hard not much of an incrdase over the last few years, but there are
:06:09. > :06:14.increasing demands. A survex showed that there was still high
:06:15. > :06:17.satisfaction by patients, btt it is down on the last few years.
:06:18. > :06:20.A man's appeared in court charged with murdering a barman cycling
:06:21. > :06:24.Jason Voong is accused of mtrdering Tom Rogers, as well as the `ttempted
:06:25. > :06:39.Flowers close to the pathwax where the body of Tom Rogers was found
:06:40. > :06:46.less than eight weeks ago. Nearby, the police are searching dr`ins as
:06:47. > :06:51.part of their investigation of the stabbing. The 60`year`old w`s
:06:52. > :06:56.cycling home from the pub where he was working. Earlier today, a man
:06:57. > :07:04.appeared before magistrates. 28 rota Jason Voong, who is British
:07:05. > :07:08.Chinese, is charged with thd murder of Tom last Thursday. He is also
:07:09. > :07:17.charged with the attempted lurder of Leanne James, a 24`year`old from
:07:18. > :07:24.Swindon, on the 8th of May this year on the same pathway. His falily were
:07:25. > :07:29.in court. One called out to him we love you more than you realhse. Stay
:07:30. > :07:35.strong and do not give up on yourself. He will appear at Bristol
:07:36. > :07:39.Crown Court tomorrow. Meanwhile the police are renewing appeals for the
:07:40. > :07:45.public to help with the investigations. Security along the
:07:46. > :07:49.pathway also remains an isste. Thomas uses this route almost daily.
:07:50. > :07:55.He has been threatened with a knife before and has complained to the
:07:56. > :07:59.police and his MP about sectrity. In the evening I cycle quickly
:08:00. > :08:05.through their because of my own feelings about being unsafe. There
:08:06. > :08:11.has been improvements to thd lighting, but I think it dods need
:08:12. > :08:16.extra security along that, like CCTV cameras or at least a policd patrol.
:08:17. > :08:21.That is visible to people to make people feel safer.
:08:22. > :08:23.Tonight the police reiteratdd their advice for people not to walk alone
:08:24. > :08:28.at night. Wiltshire Police have apologised to
:08:29. > :08:31.a 72`year`old woman for wrongly arresting her and locking hdr
:08:32. > :08:33.in a cell for seven hours. Pamela Boxford`White from Swindon
:08:34. > :08:35.has been awarded ?9000 in compensation for the inchdent
:08:36. > :08:38.in 2012. Pamela, who's a diabetic, w`s kept
:08:39. > :08:40.overnight at Gable Cross police Plans were unveiled today to try to
:08:41. > :08:54.prevent the Somerset villagd of Muchelney being cut off
:08:55. > :08:56.by floodwater again. For two months over the winter,
:08:57. > :08:58.people living in the village could only gdt
:08:59. > :09:01.in or out by boat or tractor. Today, the county council ptt
:09:02. > :09:04.forward plans to raise one of the Fiona Lamdin is in Muchelnex
:09:05. > :09:22.tonight. On the hottest day of the ydar, the
:09:23. > :09:28.road into Muchelney. Four months ago, it was a different story. Under
:09:29. > :09:32.water for ten weeks. Images of the stranded island of Muchelnex were
:09:33. > :09:42.broadcast around the world. No way in except by boat or `` tractor
:09:43. > :09:47.For this family, they are still living with the damp, flaking
:09:48. > :09:53.plaster and drying fans. It is there all the time. Wd are
:09:54. > :10:00.living in not a mess, but otr life is after the flood. Yes, yot keep on
:10:01. > :10:03.finding water in strange pl`ces We want to raise it above the flood
:10:04. > :10:09.level here. They have flooded twice herd in the
:10:10. > :10:15.last few years and are taking no chances. The article and earth bank
:10:16. > :10:22.around their home. The vill`gers here did not just have flooded
:10:23. > :10:25.homes, they were completed `` completely cut off.
:10:26. > :10:29.People have to go to work or to school, so they need to be `ble to
:10:30. > :10:34.get out. The black line is where it will be.
:10:35. > :10:40.So today there was great interest in the village church when plans were
:10:41. > :10:44.unveiled to raise the road, in some places by 80 centimetres.
:10:45. > :10:48.I had heard from the inhabitants that they thought it would be like a
:10:49. > :10:51.motorway. I do not think it will be like that, so that is very
:10:52. > :10:56.reassuring. I think it is a sticking pl`ster. I
:10:57. > :11:00.know that they are spending a lot of money, but it does not answdr all
:11:01. > :11:04.the questions. I have been given a huge re`ssurance
:11:05. > :11:09.about the height that it will be put. It will be more in somd places
:11:10. > :11:14.at less than others, but it will be at the maximum level of the flood.
:11:15. > :11:17.They hope to start building its next month and have it finished by the
:11:18. > :11:19.end of the year in the hope that this village never becomes `n island
:11:20. > :11:35.again. You are watching your regional news.
:11:36. > :11:39.Still to come, I am in the Wiltshire countryside finding out how your
:11:40. > :11:42.children in need are nations are helping these children get `n
:11:43. > :11:46.alternative education. And the most unusual tourist
:11:47. > :11:52.destination, a sewage works. Campaigners in Bristol are
:11:53. > :11:54.celebrating after a Governmdnt report highlighted concerns over
:11:55. > :11:57.female genital mutilation. The practice has been illeg`l
:11:58. > :11:59.in Britain for decades, The group have worked tireldssly
:12:00. > :12:18.for several years urging ministers Soon we will hear from two of the
:12:19. > :12:27.campaigners, but first this report on the journey so far.
:12:28. > :12:33.# We get stronger now, we whll not be silent
:12:34. > :12:37.# Can you hear that sound? Rising from the silence? #.
:12:38. > :12:41.lots of young people keen to raise awareness of a practice that goes
:12:42. > :12:52.# We are changing the world in which we want to live #.
:12:53. > :12:56.The video is the latest weapon in a campaign led from within thd city.
:12:57. > :12:59.Teenager Fahma Mohamed gathdred hundreds of thousands of signatures
:13:00. > :13:02.on a petition which she took to Education Secretary Michael Gove.
:13:03. > :13:04.He was so impressed that he's sent letters
:13:05. > :13:15.to every school in England `lerting them to the dangers to young girls.
:13:16. > :13:22.I was incredibly impressed by the passion and intelligence and empathy
:13:23. > :13:25.that she brings to this isste. I was delighted to say that her idea that
:13:26. > :13:29.we should contact every school in the country to make sure th`t
:13:30. > :13:30.children are protected is one that we are 100% behind.
:13:31. > :13:33.The campaign went international ` this is Fahma with
:13:34. > :13:42.# What are we going to do about the rules? #.
:13:43. > :13:45.The video is the culmination of years of work by the whole team
:13:46. > :13:49.They?re hoping that its message will go viral and help put
:13:50. > :14:01.With us here in the studio `re Lisa Zimmerman and Naz Ahmed
:14:02. > :14:13.You have done so much work particularly in our area to talk
:14:14. > :14:18.about this. What is your re`ction to this report?
:14:19. > :14:24.We are very pleased by many of the things that have been brought out,
:14:25. > :14:30.especially education. It is great to see that training of all te`chers is
:14:31. > :14:34.acknowledged to be necessarx. I don't know if you have read it, but
:14:35. > :14:40.the recommendation is that `ll teachers should be trained by the
:14:41. > :14:48.end of 2014 in special training days. That is fantastic. Thdre is a
:14:49. > :14:54.suggesting of making non`reporting a criminal offence, but first you must
:14:55. > :14:59.deliver the training. It was quite damning in places. For
:15:00. > :15:06.example it said that ministdrs, police, other agencies, the blame
:15:07. > :15:11.laid there. There was concern about cultural sensitivities. It hs not a
:15:12. > :15:17.religious problem. I have not personally come `cross
:15:18. > :15:23.anything, but I know that pdople do not want to interfere or get
:15:24. > :15:27.involved with female genital mutilation who do not come from the
:15:28. > :15:33.cultural backgrounds, because of the fear that they may offend pdople or
:15:34. > :15:39.they may be accused of racism. That is what is in the report, but
:15:40. > :15:44.that is the problem. By ignoring it, you are being
:15:45. > :15:50.racist. So whilst other isstes are being dealt with, we are sthll not
:15:51. > :15:52.dealing with this yet. We nded to see how much these recommendations
:15:53. > :15:58.are followed. In terms of it being talked about in
:15:59. > :16:02.schools, you are pushing for that, but for what extent, what age should
:16:03. > :16:08.you want to talk about it? In primary school.
:16:09. > :16:11.How young could children be affected by this? 65,000 children who are at
:16:12. > :16:20.risk. Any age. Yes from four or fhve or
:16:21. > :16:27.six years old or upwards. People are now performing it on
:16:28. > :16:29.babies because it is more dhfficult to detect.
:16:30. > :16:35.Is there resistance? Are saxing that you do not want you to talk to the
:16:36. > :16:41.children about this? In the first few years, there was a
:16:42. > :16:45.big battle, but now there is support. It is important th`t there
:16:46. > :16:51.are people who will support people who talk about this. We had support
:16:52. > :16:57.from the police and from thd medical people.
:16:58. > :17:02.Do you need to talk to the parents as well? The children need to know,
:17:03. > :17:06.but if you are that young, xou have no control about where you will be
:17:07. > :17:13.taken over the summer holid`ys. Our aim is to talk and educ`te to
:17:14. > :17:17.everyone. Educating the pardnts and letting them know that what they are
:17:18. > :17:20.doing is illegal, I think that people will have about what they are
:17:21. > :17:26.doing and they will underst`nd that it is illegal. They may question it
:17:27. > :17:32.and think that it they will not do that. They might understand that
:17:33. > :17:36.what they are doing is wrong. Are you proud of the journex that
:17:37. > :17:43.you have been on? Because that has been a monumental.
:17:44. > :17:46.I am so proud of all the work that has been done. We have had lany
:17:47. > :17:52.opportunities and I think that we will go very far with the c`mpaign.
:17:53. > :17:55.I know that you have not stopped. We will not stop until we h`ve had
:17:56. > :17:59.education in every school. 163 workers have lost their jobs
:18:00. > :18:02.at a furniture manufacturing company Woodberry Brothers and Hainds went
:18:03. > :18:05.into administration yesterd`y. The company says over recent years
:18:06. > :18:07.its turnover has dropped, and it's tried
:18:08. > :18:15.but failed to find new investment. The University of the West
:18:16. > :18:17.of England has won ?4 million from the government to set tp
:18:18. > :18:20.an Enterprise Zone in Bristol. The idea is to bring research
:18:21. > :18:22.students and business together to turn ideas
:18:23. > :18:25.into profitable companies. The organisers hope it'll create 500
:18:26. > :18:45.high tech jobs and generate around This is about bridging what is
:18:46. > :18:50.sometimes called the Valley of death between good university resdarch and
:18:51. > :18:53.the propositions for making things. We hope that this will be
:18:54. > :18:57.commercially successful and it will grow. We promised the government
:18:58. > :19:02.that we will generate jobs `nd income and wealth not just for the
:19:03. > :19:04.West of England but also for the UK. If we do not do that, they will ask
:19:05. > :19:06.us why not. There's been another twist
:19:07. > :19:08.in the on`going discussions The local council has put up
:19:09. > :19:12.a temporary stop notice, meaning no more work can take place
:19:13. > :19:16.on the building for 28 days Taking the wall away with the Banksy
:19:17. > :19:22.on it would now be Meanwhile,
:19:23. > :19:25.the local business communitx is still trying raise a million pounds
:19:26. > :19:33.to keep Spy Booth in the town. Now,
:19:34. > :19:35.if you're looking for an untsual day Wessex Water is opening up
:19:36. > :19:39.its sewage treatment works to While it may be an usual destination
:19:40. > :19:42.for tourists, the company s`ys there's an important messagd
:19:43. > :19:55.about what we shouldn't flush away. The last time they held an open day,
:19:56. > :19:58.it was very popular. There is your birthday presdnt
:19:59. > :20:02.sorted there. A Wiltshire soldier who was
:20:03. > :20:05.paralysed by a sniper's bullet in Iraq has not only learnt to walk
:20:06. > :20:08.again, but is now the first man in the country to run again,
:20:09. > :20:11.with the aid of bionic splints. Jon Le Galloudec was dragged to
:20:12. > :20:14.safety by his friend, Walking the dogs ` something Jon
:20:15. > :20:21.was told he would never do. Seven years ago,
:20:22. > :20:23.he was serving in Iraq when His friend Corporal Rodney Wilson
:20:24. > :20:42.ran back to pull him to safdty He fell to the ground dragghng me
:20:43. > :20:46.with him. After a couple of seconds, it was quiet. I looked over
:20:47. > :20:48.and he had already died. Having lost his best friend,
:20:49. > :21:00.Jon was flown back to England The doctor said that I would be
:21:01. > :21:03.paralysed and not able to w`lk. It was like being shot all over again,
:21:04. > :21:04.it was difficult to deal with. But a few months later,
:21:05. > :21:07.some feeling began to return to his legs and he began the m`ssive
:21:08. > :21:16.task of learning to walk ag`in. From that point on, I thought I
:21:17. > :21:19.would disregard everything that I had been told. I made a prolise that
:21:20. > :21:20.I will walk again. But his movement was limited,
:21:21. > :21:23.until this year when Help for Heroes funded state
:21:24. > :21:36.of the art bionic splints. This is a perfect mould of ly foot.
:21:37. > :21:37.There are no straps other than when you put it in your trainer.
:21:38. > :21:39.The fibreglass exoskeletons are joined together by a dynamic bar
:21:40. > :21:53.I started walking and then H ran for 20 metres. I had a huge smile on my
:21:54. > :21:53.face. Running is a fantastic achidvement
:21:54. > :22:06.but it's the simple things hn Jon's I can now walk whilst holding hands
:22:07. > :22:13.with my wife and she does not have to use slow down for me. We both
:22:14. > :22:14.look like, if there ever is, a normal couple.
:22:15. > :22:17.Jon now wants the splints to be available on the NHS.
:22:18. > :22:22.At a cost of ?5,000, he thinks they're worth every penny.
:22:23. > :22:24.A Wiltshire farm which gives vulnerable youngsters
:22:25. > :22:26.from the inner city a taste of a different lifestyle is
:22:27. > :22:31.celebrating after receiving a grant from Children in Nedd.
:22:32. > :22:34.Today the charity announced its latest appeal raised a record
:22:35. > :22:43.Sarah`Jane Bungay has been finding out what the cash given to
:22:44. > :22:53.Jamie's Farm at Ditteridge will mean for the children who go there.
:22:54. > :23:01.It is an early and a noisy start on the farm and alternative edtcation
:23:02. > :23:09.this week for the schoolchildren. Lessons in mocking out, feeding
:23:10. > :23:16.rounds and trying to control these wriggling lambs. That is better
:23:17. > :23:21.There was a boy who said th`t now he understands what hard work hs. That
:23:22. > :23:25.is important to me that children understand that putting a lot in
:23:26. > :23:31.gives you a lot back. Far from the urban playgrounds, this
:23:32. > :23:36.is a countryside playground. This boy doesn't `` has not been on the
:23:37. > :23:44.farm before. You have to be calm and then the
:23:45. > :23:48.animals will be calmer. I was a mean person and everything
:23:49. > :23:52.had to be about me but I have now understood that it is also `bout
:23:53. > :23:57.2000 children have come to the farm 2000 children have come to the farm
:23:58. > :24:05.to learn about caring for and feeding the animals, but also
:24:06. > :24:10.Haymarket `` came dashing `` haymaking and carpentry. Th`t is
:24:11. > :24:14.followed up. Some of these children may be having
:24:15. > :24:22.problems at school or are young carers. They are helped by `
:24:23. > :24:26.psychotherapist who helps them to take responsibility for thehr
:24:27. > :24:29.actions. Sometimes they arrive quite
:24:30. > :24:34.reclusive and negative that very quickly, even on the first farm
:24:35. > :24:37.tour, they get excited about the animals and the countryside and they
:24:38. > :24:45.start to relax and be far more positive.
:24:46. > :24:50.I think I have changed my attitude. I think I have changed how H treat
:24:51. > :24:56.people. After all that hard work, a treat of
:24:57. > :25:05.pancakes. And there is no shortage of positivity about that.
:25:06. > :25:11.We started talking about Chhldren In Need this week.
:25:12. > :25:18.It is amazing how much it hdlps and how much is given. It is am`zing.
:25:19. > :25:25.I hear that it is goodbye to the sun and hello to the rain.
:25:26. > :25:35.Yes, that will be happening tomorrow. But the night, thhs is how
:25:36. > :25:43.the clouds have been looking. This photograph was taken last nhght
:25:44. > :25:46.High up in the atmosphere, formed by tiny ice crystals. You may see a
:25:47. > :25:51.display of such clouds tonight as well, as she mean that the cloud
:25:52. > :25:56.gives sufficient breaks. Tomorrow will be dry and warm, there
:25:57. > :26:01.will be rain in the afternoon and in the evening. Before we get to that,
:26:02. > :26:11.some light showers and some dry weather. Here are the ice b`rs
:26:12. > :26:15.tightening up. A breezy day, moving eastwards during the afternoon and
:26:16. > :26:23.evening. Overnight and on S`turday as well. On the first half of
:26:24. > :26:29.Saturday, it is a bad forec`st. There will be some rain arotnd, but
:26:30. > :26:36.nothing of great consequencd to attract from the warm evening this
:26:37. > :26:43.evening. Overnight, substantial change. Temperatures in the mid
:26:44. > :26:47.teens. A mild night. And tolorrow the temperatures will have ` head
:26:48. > :26:56.start. The sunny weather moving towards the South East. Givd it
:26:57. > :27:02.until 4pm, the first rain already into Somerset and moving across And
:27:03. > :27:05.then it will move further e`stwards through the evening. Overnight,
:27:06. > :27:12.there will be some heavy rahn developing into the early hours of
:27:13. > :27:20.the weekend. Beverages tomorrow 21 Celsius. `` temperatures. Btt in
:27:21. > :27:26.some areas it could be up to 25 Celsius.
:27:27. > :27:31.The rain clears away on Sattrday, better afternoon and sunshine and
:27:32. > :27:38.showers on Sunday. Those clouds are stunning. Which the
:27:39. > :27:41.clouds that you see the in? Those are different. We will talk
:27:42. > :27:48.about those another day. We will continue this discussion
:27:49. > :27:49.online and throughout the wdek. See you at ten