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Welcome to BBC London News with me, Alice Bhandukravi. | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
We start tonight with more on those concerns about the state of the NHS. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
BBC London has been given exclusive behind-the-scenes access at one | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
of the capital's busiest hospitals, on the day that the health service | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
warned that care is becoming unsustainable due to | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
Earlier, the head of the NHS here in London said hospitals | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
are busier than ever, and that things are set to get worse. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
Our political correspondent Karl Mercer has been to the Chelsea | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
and Westminster Hospital to see how they're coping. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
Like every other emergency department in London, | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
They're seeing around 450 people a day here. | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
The number they have to admit to hospital is up 13% | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
We are seeing unprecedented numbers at the moment, | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
And more and more people coming through the door. | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
The hospital - again, like most across the capital - is full. | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
The problem a common one, of not being able to move | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
I mean, every single bed in both our sites | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
And it's almost a case of one in, one out, as soon as we can discharge | :01:22. | :01:31. | |
someone, we can move someone through the system. | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
So what is the NHS doing to tackle the issues? | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
Can I check who we've got on from the surge hub, please? | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
Five times a day, every day, this team at NHS London gather | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
to take the temperature of hospitals across the capital. | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
Staffing, the usual few gaps of registered nurses due | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
to short-term sickness and no-shows from the agency. | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
From an infection control perspective, they have seven | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
We're just wondering what level of escalation they are at? | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
They check on things like staffing levels, | :02:01. | :02:01. | |
how many patients are waiting to be discharged, how long patients | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
are waiting to be seen and how many beds are available. | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
And they too have cancelled any nonclinical activities for nurses | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
today and brought everybody back out onto the floor. | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
So the focus is often on emergency departments but what we see | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
is the full picture, the flow through the hospital | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
and that's often what we are able to contribute to. | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
So that it is not just an Emergency Department problem. | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
No, OK, Emma, do you want to move on? | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
Today, as we filmed, the NHS boss in London joined the call, | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
at a time when the service is being stretched as never before. | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
It is the busiest we have ever seen it. | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
We are about 10% up on where we were in terms of hospital | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
activity year on year, this time last year. | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
111 during the Christmas period and the first few | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
weeks into the New Year, about 40% up. | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
But things are expected to get even tougher in the coming weeks, | :02:51. | :03:03. | |
with cold weather and flu outbreaks on the way. | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
What used to be a busy winter surge is not expected to end until May. | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
We heard there that things are going to get worse. Why is that? The NHS | :03:10. | :03:27. | |
is hearing from GPs, services like 111 and A that more children are | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
presenting with flu. Traditionally, if you see more children presenting | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
in flu, about two weeks later, you see a spike in the number of adults | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
getting it. As we heard in the report, there is also normally a | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
spike in the last week in January and as we know, there are reports of | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
cold weather on the way which will add to the problem. Many would think | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
that just throwing money at the problem will help and I'm sure many | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
NHS hospital directors would not refuse it. But the regional director | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
of the NHS in London actually said it would be better to put money into | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
social care which is all about unblocking the system, getting | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
people out who are not clinically ill any more but still in hospital, | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
out of the bed and freeing up beds. Thank you for joining us. | :04:10. | :04:10. | |
London's controversial Garden Bridge is on the verge of collapse | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
after accounts published today show a significant funding shortfall. | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
If it isn't built, around ?40 million pounds of public | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
If it isn't built, around ?40 million of public | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
The trust behind the project says it still expects to start | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
Our transport correspondent Tom Edwards reports. | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
This is where the Garden Bridge is meant to span the Thames. | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
The idea is it'll be a haven for wildlife and plants, | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
but there is now considerable doubt around the project. | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
The trustees say they are ?56 million short and the project is no | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
Campaigners say the bridge would destroy protected views | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
There remain issues about land and whether the mayor | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
They are admitting the costs are rising inexorably, | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
What maniac is going to put money into this project? | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
If there are delays to the project, the trustees said the initial | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
estimate of ?185 million could rise substantially. | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
The mayor is now carrying out a review of this project. | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
The trustees say that is hindering their attempts to raise more funds | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
The project will use ?60 million of public money. | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
The rest is meant to come from private donors. | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
I think it's nearly dead and it's about time we put | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
I think the current mayor needs to break with the previous one | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
and make sure he doesn't sign the guarantee for the running costs | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
of the bridge in order to fulfil the pledge he made of no more public | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
If the mayor doesn't underwrite the maintenance costs and the issues | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
around the land aren't sorted out, the trustees admit the project may | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
The mayor has already said that could cost the taxpayer ?40 million. | :06:07. | :06:16. | |
We have had to disclose the risks that remain for us to overcome | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
before we begin construction and none of them are new. | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
We need to secure the land and the funding. | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
We are confident that we will be able to do that but as far | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
as the accounts go, we had to disclose those risks. | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
The trust says constructions will start this year. | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
Critics say the Garden Bridge is on the brink of collapse. | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
Uncertainty around the project means time is running out. | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
A BBC London investigation has discovered that unlicensed barbers | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
in London could be putting customers at risk. | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
At the moment, anyone can set up a shop offering haiircuts | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
At the moment, anyone can set up a shop offering haircuts | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
and shaves without proper regulation. | :07:01. | :07:01. | |
For millions of men, visiting a barber is fairly routine. | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
Usually, they leave looking and feeling better. | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
Walking down London's high streets, you will see more barber | :07:09. | :07:20. | |
They are top spots for trendy haircuts and popular meeting places. | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
But the UK barbering industry is difficult to regulate and barbers | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
here don't even need a license to practise. | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
For some in the capital, this is causing huge problems. | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
They were here and here... Meet Jacob. | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
He got a fungal infection after his barber used dirty | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
In the summer of 2015, I started to get some pretty bad | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
bumps on my head and there would be pus coming out. | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
Every time I would wake up, I would look down and there would be | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
So I was put on antibiotics for about four weeks. | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
But nothing, really, it would subside but come back | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
I wasn't able to shave without opening up the wounds again. | :08:01. | :08:11. | |
Dirty clippers or razors at barber shops can put customers at risk | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
of bacterial and viral infections, like folliculitis, herpes | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
If the barber isn't trained, then in fact what can happen | :08:20. | :08:29. | |
is there is an entry of bacteria into the scalp, the hair | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
bulb becomes infected and they have an infection. | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
If you are trained, you would know it's very important | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
Take a look at these pictures we took inside an east | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
We showed them to one of the industry's leading figures. | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
The councils, I think, need to get involved with health | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
and safety and check - not shut down people, help people, | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
tell them what the legislation is and people will get | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
a qualification, they understand everything else. | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
At the London School of Barbering, hygiene is high up on the priority | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
list for the students, who must complete three months | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
of training before they can practise professionally. | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
In the USA and Australia, you have to gain X amount | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
I think that's something that is essential to the health | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
You wouldn't go to a mechanic that wasn't qualified, would you? | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
We contacted all of London's 32 councils but none could tell us how | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
many barber shops operated in the area and only one | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
So while it doesn't look like anything will be changing soon, | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
it's vital that customers are aware of the risks and always | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
That's it for now from me, but let's find out what the weathers | :09:49. | :09:59. | |
It is cold weather on the way. Cold indeed. I have not had a | :10:00. | :10:07. | |
picture like this so far this season and noticed the pavement. No more | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
clues. Travel disruption is distinctly possible and part of the | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
equation is that the day starts cold and dry. Don't be full by the dry | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
element because not long into the day, I thought you said it was going | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
to be snow, weatherman, well, rain for many of us to start off with so | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
a bit of patience but that'll be a thoroughly miserable day in its own | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
right and none too warm. That is the problem because as the cold air | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
tucks into the back of the rain area, yes, the Met office have a | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
warning out for snow, just in time for the evening commute. It is not | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
just a high ground feature. If it gets quite intense, it could drag | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
down to quite low levels and as it clears the way, too late for | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
commuters, it turns quite icy, just in time, we suspect, for another | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
belt also to work its way through for the morning commuters on Friday. | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
We have got a double whammy potentially leading us into a chilly | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
start to the weekend. Time for the national weather prospects if you | :11:05. | :11:05. | |
are on the move. Good evening, a lot going on with | :11:06. | :11:14. | |
the weather in the next few days, numerous weather warnings in for so | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
buried in mind if you have travel plans. Lots of isobars on the chart | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
overnight which means it will be windy for all. The strongest winds | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
in Scotland, lots of wintry showers with snow getting down to | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
increasingly low levels and some wintry showers in Northern Ireland | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
and northern England. A cold night for Northern England, particularly | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
in more rural spots, frosty and I see for some and some of the snow | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
really blowing around over higher ground in Scotland. Strong wind and | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
further snow to take us into tomorrow. It may well make for some | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
tricky travelling conditions. The forecast for tomorrow in the | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
southern half of the UK's quite tricky. We have got mild air bumping | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
into colder air. The boundary between the two, it will be an ugly | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
mix of rain, sleet and snow developing. Mild air comes in behind | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
the weather front but the rain ahead of that will be mixing with the cold | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
air. Details are a bit | :12:04. | :12:04. |