11/12/2017 London News

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The Government has stepped

in to help manage one

of the capital's biggest hospital

trusts after serious

concerns about its finances.

It was announced today that

Kings College Hospitals Trust

is being put into special measures.

It comes not long after the trust

chairman, Lord Kerslake,

former head of the Civil Service,

resigned, saying he wasn't

prepared to make more cuts.

Here's our political

editor, Tim Donovan.

This hospital trust has been really

struggling financially ever

since a merger with another

hospital, the Princess Royal,

in Orpington, four years ago.

This year it is set to overspend

its target budget by £92 million,

which is why the NHS regulator has

just stepped in.

Pre-empting that, getting his

retaliation in first,

some would say, was the trust

chairman, who announced he was off.

We've saved in each of the last

two years £80 million,

twice the national average.

But the challenges of rising demand,

rising costs and an expectation

to bring that deficit down even

faster I think have proved very

difficult and this year has been

particularly challenging.

But if he says further cuts

were unsustainable, the health

service regulator doesn't agree.

At the hospital today

there was support for both views.

Apparently he has reduced

the deficit but not

to the target deficit.

Do you think he could have made more

savings, made more savings

without affecting care?

Without affecting care.

Well, actually, I think he probably

could by going for the bureaucrats.

They need more staff,

more money spent on it, more beds,

because the pressure on a day-to-day

basis is quite heavy.

I think we should all dig

into our pockets and provide

a bit more for the NHS.

It's clear the regulator NHS

Improvement has been

concerned for some time

about the trust's

financial planning.

A few months ago its former head

Jim Mackey warned that,

"They hadn't hit a single number

they've put to us in the two

years I've been involved.

You'd expect more."

Today the patience ran out,

with the new chief executive,

Ian Dalton, saying, "The financial

situation at King's has deteriorated

very seriously over recent months

and we've now placed the trust

in special measures to maximise

the amount of scrutiny

and support that it receives."

NHS Improvements found that

Lord Kerslake's Trust

was the worst-performing

in the country on financial grounds

and that's why I think

he effectively got pushed out.

I know it was structured

as a resignation but I think

he jumped before he was

quite clearly pushed.

Putting the trust into special

measures is intended to achieve

a swift turnaround of its financial

fortunes but it's getting close

to the most difficult time

of the year for this,

like many other hospitals -

the potential challenge

of a winter bed crisis.

And on the BBC News website you can

see how the NHS Trust

in your area is performing.

Search for NHS Tracker and then

type in your postcode.

Tonight disruption continues

at Waterloo Station,

with warnings it's likely

to still affect commuters

travelling tomorrow morning.

It's after hours of delays

and cancellations caused

by a trackside fire.

There are warns it will probably

effect people tomorrow morning. Here

is Marc Ashdown.

They're kind of used to a bit

of overcrowding at Waterloo by now -

platform upgrades over the summer

caused widespread disruption -

but tonight the crowds

went on, and on, and on.

Caused by a trackside fire

which took out three

of the lines earlier in the day,

this evening it was about waiting

and hoping for some

kind of service home.

No idea.

If a train comes up then I'll just

get on any one and then hopefully

someone in my family can pick me up

but it's not ideal, particularly

with the weather and stuff,

it's rubbish really -

just standard, standard

London Waterloo.

It's been my second

delay so far this week.

Yeah, disappointing, but it's a fire

so you can't do much about it.

All South Western trains

between Waterloo and Dorking

were cancelled for the day,

as were services to Hampton Court,

and circular services, too,

via Teddington and Strawberry Hill.

Trains to Guildford made extra

stops, while all West

of England services started

and terminated at Basingstoke.

Because of this severe overcrowding

here at Waterloo this evening,

station staff had no choice

but to close the station.

They did it about an hour ago,

and it means as well as all these

people on the concourse

and the platforms, there are also

hundreds of people locked out

there on the street wondering quite

how they're going to

get home this evening.

Eventually they did re-open

the station, leading to a flood

of people now desperate to find any

route out of the city.

Network Rail is investigating

what caused the fire and hopes

to have services running more

smoothly by the morning,

but the festive season got off

to a bad start today

for thousands of passengers.

And Marc's here now.

So what is the situation looking

like tomorrow for commuters?

I think sadly it is inevitable there

will be some disruption. Network

Rail still looking into this. We are

being led to believe it is caused by

a cable which came into contact with

track circuits on three lines. I

don't know what that means, but it

caused a fire that crippled the

entire network. Engineers have been

working to try and fix it. Network

Rail say there will be some

disruption tomorrow. South Western

said their journeys will be

unaffected and I saw people who

breezed through and got home no

problem, but they were the lucky

ones. It was bedlam for a time. Now

with the trains in the wrong place,

the crews in the wrong place and

because of the delays, I think there

will be an effect for early part of

rush hour. So check before you leave

the house and travel and tonight

South West have treated that tickets

from today will be valid tomorrow.

So if you bought a ticket for today

you can use it tomorrow. But of

course check it, because the usual

restrictions apply. But do check

before you travel tomorrow.

Thank

you.

From next year, changes to data

protection rules could see

organisations who accidentally leak

personal details fined

millions of pounds.

Islington Council was one

of the worst offenders under

the old regime after mistakenly

publishing thousands

of confidential files.

So is the local authority

ready for the new rules?

Sarah Harris has been finding out.

Across the internet

millions of people's

details, bank account numbers and

personal histories.

Carol knows first-hand

the real-life devastation

that can be caused when those

details are leaked.

She lives on the Andover

Estate in Finsbury Park,

where sensitive details of dozens

of residents were published online.

Six of her neighbours had to be

re-housed for their own safety.

She no longer trusts giving

personal information online.

Not after they've done it twice.

If they can do it twice,

they can do it quite

a few more times, can't they?

If you think about it.

So you are careful

what you disclose now?

Oh, yeah, definitely yeah.

I think everybody

should be like that as well.

Parking fine private details

were also published.

Islington Council said:

But some campaigners

sau they haven't

gone far enough.

We have seen people's

personal dates of birth,

sexual orientation

and housing situation

released to the public,

we

have seen the names and addresses

of witness statements released to

perpetrators of

anti-social behaviour.

Time and time again

we have seen incompetence

from Islington Councilregarding data

protection.

Legal experts say it's time

for all organisations in London

to invest in secure

systems ahead of law

changes in the new year,

where

high security cost will be

small compared to fines.

The current maximum

fine is £500,000.

That's going to go up

to between 2 to 4% of

an organisation's turnover,

or 10 million to 20 million euros -

whichever is higher.

And that's a huge increase

in fines for organisations.

For those trusting

organisations with

their personal information,

tighter rules and fines

have to be welcomed,

but for those already facing budget

cuts it is a cost they can

be doing without and

data security is not

an

exact science.

I'll say goodnight now.

It's over to Stav Danaos for that

all-important weather forecast,

and plummeting temperatures tonight.

and plummeting temperatures tonight.

Absolutely. That comes after

atrocious weather, with the rain,

sleet and snow. It is no surprise we

saw that travel disruption. This

week starts cold, turns milder

midweek and will turn colder at the

end of the week. Tonight ice will be

the problem - widespread ice as

temperatures fall. Down to minus 11

in the Chilterns. We start off with

that ice risk through the morning.

Watch out for that on untreated

roads. There will be plenty of

sunshine. But temperatures

struggling. Ranging from freezing to

three degrees. Midweek we have one

front that moves through Tuesday

night and another one arriving on

Wednesday. So a wet but a frost-free

start to Wednesday. A bit of

brightness, but the winds pick up

from the south-west. A lot of cloud

and rain. But temperatures reaching

nine or ten Celsius. Thursday, rain

will not be too far away. More cloud

around. A few bright spells and we

will see cold air returning and this

area of low pressure opens the flood

gates to the Arctic and it is set to

turn colder on Friday. Some cloud a

rain. The wind switches to the north

and brightness but colder. By the

weekend cold and bright. And the

return of frosty nights as well.