26/01/2017 East Midlands Today

Could do better. so it's goodbye from me

Inspectors issue their latest report on Leicester's NHS hospitals.

The report might be new but the results are the same,

all three of Leicester's hospitals require improvement.

Now pharmacists are bolstering the NHS front line.

Also tonight, a multi-million pound boost for our region to encourage

more people to walk or use one of these to get to work.

Plus, you'll never guess who is the special visitor

Welcome to Thursday's programme with Dominic Heale

All three of Leicester's hospitals still require improvement.

That's the verdict of the health watchdog,

The hospitals were inspected last year.

While the report praised staff for being caring,

it said more than 40 services need to do better.

The news that the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

A previous inspection in April 2014 reached the same conclusion.

I'm actually very pleased with some aspects of the report, I think

I'm very pleased for our staff who have been judged to be

caring across the board across the three sites.

Your overall review is still the same as in April 2014?

Yes, it was, but the chief inspector goes out of his way in this

statement to say that, although we are in the same banding,

The Care Quality Commission team inspected eight core services

across the three hospitals, LRI, the General and the Glenfield.

In one area, the effectiveness of congenital heart

services at the Glenfield, it has been rated as outstanding.

In contrast, the response of the existing A

unit at the Leicester Royal Infirmary has

Since the report, 55 areas like intensive

care at all three sites, and medical care at the General

But 41 areas including end of life care, outpatients and maternity,

But this is an extremely large organisation

It is something of an oil tanker, with very complex patients,

and ever-increasing numbers of patients coming to us.

So it is not the stuff of overnight miracles.

It is the stuff of steady effort and commitment

The CQC report says that, although the trust is at the same

level it was in 2014, improvements have been made.

The new A unit which will help ease the pressure is due to open

Well, it's not just our hospitals facing unprecedented pressure.

GPs are under massive strain and there aren't

Greater use of pharmacists is being seen as one way forward.

Our health correspondent, Rob Sissons is at a pharmacy

I am at Moin's Pharmacy and Wellbeing Centre.

They hope to ease pressure at GP surgeries. I have been looking at

how they have been using pharmacists in the NHS more on the front nine,

inside GP surgeries. This is that one case in Nottingham.

Now at the Well Spring Surgery, there is someone new to turn to.

Here is a clinical pharmacist who can help patients

If you cannot get into your doctor, you can try to see someone else.

This GP recognises some may see this as replacing doctors.

He says this is about complementing the GP role.

You get a pharmacy check, they are looking at the medicines,

they have time with patients to explain what the medicines

are, the interactions, and gives health education.

Suzanne is another patient with diabetes and asthma.

The pharmacist is able to give her tips on medication

It takes the pressure off the doctors which these

Pharmacists are experts in medication and highly trained.

The one here has been expanding his role.

Moving on to clinics is what we are talking about,

having my own clinics other than for drug reviews.

And later progressing to minor ailments which will accounts for 40

There are 48 pharmacists in the East Midlands

NHS England now wants to see many more.

I am at Moin's Pharmacy and Wellbeing Centre.

Una chemist here and in market harbour. You think we should be

making more use of places like this to ease the pressure on GPs and

hospitals. Definitely. Being among the most

trusted professions in the Wells, it is finally great to see the NHS is

backing pharmacists to go into surgeries. We have such a great

resource in community pharmacy. You get forgotten by customers, they

don't think to go to the pharmacy but head to the GP.

Simply because we are not empowered to make that difference. They come

in, and... You don't think the NHS is sending

enough services here like diabetes screening?

Yes, we can support long-term conditions like asthma, diabetes,

COPD. Prevention is better than cure. Pharmacies are well placed to

provide that education for our communities.

Do you think in ten years, I have known you for years, will we be

having this same conversation or will we sort this -- Will we see

more use of pharmacists? I would like to think in ten years

we will have a very different conversation. Historically we had

this conversation ten years ago and not much has changed. If we want the

health service to improve we need to make a commitment and invest in the

community pharmacy. Thank you for joining me. This is

one area being looked at to ease the pressure on the NHS.

torch came to the aid of a Derbyshire holidaymaker.

Tim Robinson was on holiday in Dorset earlier this month

when he was badly injured falling from rocks.

More than ?6.5 million is to be spent on encouraging people

across the East Midlands to walk or cycle to work.

The funding was announced by the Transport Minister Andrew Jones

It's part of a ?64 million investment.

The Government hopes it'll make people's journeys to work

Today's announcement is about a national announcement.

The hope is that, rather than starting the engine,

thousands more of us will be putting on a bike helmet or lacing up

The funding's part of a wider ?300 million investment

to boost walking and cycling during the current parliament.

We want to make cycling and walking the default choice. Part of that is

investment in infrastructure and encouraging people to change their

behaviour, and seeing how they can improve their lives.

Nottingham and Derby's councils joined together for their bid,

and have collectively been awarded ?3.5 million.

Meanwhile, Leicester City and County has been given ?3.5 million alone.

It is particularly important in cities where you have a serious

problem of congestion and traffic. Very bad in Nottingham and Dolby.

Getting on your bike is an important way of tackling that, as well as

walking and electric vehicles. The owner of this bike shop says the

amount of people wanting to commute by bike has rocketed in recent

years. We are seeing a lot of cyclists who

were perhaps fair weather cyclists. But now they have invested in coats

and bikes and sucking all the year round.

Elise is at a bicycle shop in Nottingham for us this evening.

Elise, what is the reaction from cyclists to this extra investment?

Cyclists must be happy about this extra investment?

Yes, Matt Foster is the director of this firm. As a cyclist, what would

you like the money to be invested in?

Safe cycle highways to keep people cycling, encourage Children And

Family Act to get out on their bikes.

Is this amount enough, what difference can this amount of money

make? Anything will help cycling in the

area. It would be great this to be a start and keep running forward with

this. Thank you. The Government says it is

up to individual councils how they decide on how this money is spent

but it could go towards safety training courses for cyclists and

more secure storage for bikes. A barber from Derby who was arrested

earlier this week has appeared in court charged

with terror offences. The Counter Terrorism Unit says it

stopped 30-year-old Mudassir Hussain They allege he was flying to Turkey

to try to join Islamic State. Meanwhile, Derbyshire Police have

deployed extra officers A popular caf in Alvaston Park

in Derby is to close, following a city council

meeting last night. There was a protest on Sunday

at the Mad Hatters Tea Room, after the council said it wouldn't

be renewing the lease. 3,000 people have signed

a petition against the change. But last night, councillors rejected

a motion, calling for the current With the NHS in the spotlight,

one East Midlands MP has found Jon Ashworth took on the

role of Shadow Health It's a high-profile role

which thrusts him into the national It's also a job which gives

him a chance to make helping the children

of alcoholics a priority. He speaks from personal experience,

as our political editor Jon Ashworth can see

the constituency he has represented for over five years

from his tenth-floor The hours are long,

the demands many. My mum was a barmaid,

my dad was a croupier I remember very clearly growing up

the differences in society. And I always had a sense that

things weren't fair, A lot of his childhood was coloured

by living with an alcoholic father and dealing with the pressures

of an illness which I would go home and open the fridge,

and there was nothing there I'd have to go to the shops

and get the food in. One memory of a football match

from when he was eight has stuck. I remember the crowds,

his workmates watching it, the crowds going, John Ashworth

is in goal, throws him a can of Stella one way

and he'll go that way. It was funny and jokey,

you know how we have a laugh Sometimes I do wonder,

rather than thinking it is something to joke about,

maybe we should take these He now believes that can be changed

for future generations. There are some estimate up

to two million children in the country living

with an alcoholic parent. And those children get no support,

no help, there is no dedicated child phone numbers for them to ring

or ChildLine number. I am hoping to make a few changes

on things like that. If I can do that, maybe

I have made a difference. All MPs gets flak for being part

of the Westminster bubble. Jon Ashworth says their lives have

to be more than just politics. And there'll be more

from Jon Ashworth on alcohol and street drinking

on Sunday Politics East Midlands Fresh from being granted

a university degree, The Leicester City boss did

the honours at the official opening of a new primary,

much to the surprise Police in Derbyshire say they're

investigating an alleged historic sexual assault

at a Swadlincote boarding school. Caldwell Hall was a boarding school

on Main Street which is now Detectives say they want to speak

to any pupils or staff who may have Two First World War memorial plaques

which pay tribute to a brother and sister from Derbyshire are now

on display at Erewash Museum. They're called Death

Pennies, and were found They're dedicated to

Margaret Hass e from Ockbrook, who was a Red Cross nurse,

and her brother Edwin A Derbyshire man says he's lucky

to be alive after crawling for two hours across a dark,

isolated beach with Tim Robinson from Hilton says

survival training helped save him when his holiday in Dorset this

month took a dangerous turn. He was only rescued

after he messaged SOS in Morse I had gone over the mudslide

and round the headland was some rock pools and that is where

I had my accident. Back in Derbyshire visiting mum

after 11 days in hospital and an ordeal which he says

changed his life. Tim Robinson had been alone

searching for fossils while on a coastal break

with his wife when he slipped I stepped from one large rock

to another and the second large rock had a bit of slimy seaweed

on and my foot slipped and I went the opposite way and I heard this

crack and my leg had snapped. If I had stayed put under the cliffs

with falling debris, some of them are car-sized

when they shear off. If I had stayed at the water line

I would have been submerged So I needed to move

one way or the other. Totally isolated,

it was then that Tim, a member of the Territorial Army

for 26 years, says his He crawled for a mile and a half

over rocks and undergrowth, the only other thing with him

a tiny metal torch. I knew the Morse code letters -

dot dot dot, dash dash Being a small, single AAA battery

torch, I wasn't confident that could work over a mile and a quarter

so what I decided to do was crawl for five minutes and signal again

and crawl for five minutes and the third time I did my signal

and I saw some lights flashing back. She raised the alarm and Tim

was rushed to hospital Tim needed surgery and faces

another operation. He hopes to eventually get back

to the Territorial Army but in his words, he'll be

a changed man. I've done two tours in Afghanistan

and one in Iraq and I have been in jeopardy there but you realise

sometimes it is when you least expect it, all of a sudden

your life is at risk. If there was anybody who would

survive that, it would be him. We have some sad news now.

BBC Radio Derby Presenter Andy Potter has announced to listeners

that he's got just months to live after being diagnosed

Andy, who's 55, has contributed to many of the station's shows

since 1999 and has been the afternoon presenter

He announced the news on Ian Skye's Breakfast Show this

morning where he also thanked listeners for their support.

Thank you to the people forgetting in touch, thank you to all the

people who have been producers, who have helped me all the time,

forgiving me the opportunity, it be allowed on a Derby radio station. I

said earlier on, I wanted to leave a mark and hopefully we have done a

bit of that. Our thoughts are with you and your

family. Nottingham Forest have made an

approach to Burton Albion to speak to Nigel Clough for the vacant

manager's job and he is considering it. The owner says he understands

why some managers may not want to work with him.

Fawaz Al Hasawi says he knows some managers don't

want to work with him, but is in discussion

Well, we are meeting someone just right now.

By the way even the manager before is not my

That was the owner, they wanted to buy the club, they brought

In his first interview since the club's takeover

collapse with an American consortium, Fawaz says he is now

Unfortunately, we used to have somebody in the club who was doing

it wrong, and he passed the wrong information.

You can't blame the people underneath you, you own it.

I never blame the employee, I always support them in the club.

On the pitch, Forest have an interim manager,

above the Championship relegation zone after a 2-0 defeat

Fans have become increasingly angry and disillusioned with Al Hasawi

because wages have been paid late, and there's been transfer embargo

It is not just fans that are unhappy, the reputation of the club

Other people in football don't want to deal with

I agree with you that there are many things

Unless they see in their eyes the change will come.

There were reports you wanted to stabilise the club and sell it in

summer. Everything in life has a price. The

club, I would like to keep Nottingham and see Nottingham in the

Premiership as the owner. It would be like a dream for me.

And you can hear the full interview with Fawaz Al Hasawi on our BBC

Now, the build-up to tomorrow night's big East Midlands FA Cup

The flags are already out at Pride Park ahead

of their fourth-round tie against Leicester City.

Everyone at Derby's keen to test themselves against

We are playing the Premier League champions, Leicester,

for what they have achieved, they have come through

They won the league against all the odds.

From my point of view, one of the great sporting

We are looking forward to taking them on.

We'll be bringing fans, it will be a packed Pride Park Stadium.

A great occasion, a real special occasion, I can't

At Leicester City, manager Claudio Ranieri says he'll be taking

He's promising to play his strongest side to get

I put on the best team, the best team.

we need to get confidence because we lost so many matches in

And finally from me, could Carlton Cole be

The former England, Chelsea and West Ham striker is a free agent

Magpies manager Kevin Nolan, who played alongside him

at West Ham, hopes to sign Cole when the clubs transfer

But we do have more from Anne's favourite, Claudio Ranieri.

Yes, the great man himself paid a surprise visit

Fresh from his honorary degree, the Leicester City boss

was the guest of honour at Forest Lodge Community Primary

School in New Parks, and officially opened

For Claudio, it was a chance to take a break from the stress of football

management and for the children it was a day they'll never forget.

It doesn't get much better than this for Forest Lodge Primary.

A brand new school and a surprise visit from Leicester City

He came to the school today to officially open the new building.

I am very glad to be here with you today.

I am sorry for just a few minutes because tomorrow we have a

very important match and I have to go to study the next opponent.

As well as unveiling the official plaque,

he even found time to pose for some photos with the staff an pupils.

To stand and have the plaque officially opened in the school

Immensely proud, so excited for the future.

On the field, it's not going too well for the Foxes at the moment.

So what advice would these budding managers give to Claudio

as he picks his team for tomorrow night's FA Cup match?

Boys, what would you do with the team?

You have picked a slightly different starting team.

You can see what a difficult job it is for Claudio.

It's hoped today's visit could inspire the next generation

It's certainly a day these children will remember for some time yet.

Lovely. I hope he is watching, there could be some good advice. But don't

take anything from Dominic. Today was very cold, those teachers

reaching a maximum of freezing but more like minus four Celsius. Plenty

of cloud around. Tomorrow, we can expect plenty of cloud. It will be

cold although those temperatures will recover on today. A view

outbreaks of patchy rain into the evening. This weather front is

making its way from the west producing rain. The wind direction

will change to a westerly on Saturday. Not as cold. Some patchy

cloud. A widespread frost again. Temperatures falling overnight down

2-2 C. There could be some hill fog. A cold start tomorrow. Right by the

first thing but the cloud will thicken from the south. Temperatures

take their time to recover. A maximum of four Celsius. In the

evening, patchy outbreaks of rain. Saturday, you see that rain clearing

to the east. Behind it, bright intervals but also heavy showers and

there could be a bit of thunder. Temperatures up to 7 degrees. Some

uncertainty on Sunday. The potential for rain.

Milder temperatures into mid week. Double figures by Monday.

Excellent. Only ten. An exciting game tomorrow.

5000 Leicester fans at Derby, still if you tickets left.

If you want to go, better try now.