11/12/2017 London News

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Welcome to BBC London News.

I'm Claudia-Liza Armah.

Being able to see your GP

in the evenings and at weekends

should be easier as thousands more

appointments have been

made available outside

normal working hours.

London's one of the first cites

to offer all patients extended

access to GP services meaning you'll

be able to see your doctor on a

Sunday and even bank holidays.

Victoria Hollins has

been at a surgery in

Stratford in east London.

Victoria Hollins has been speaking

to Dr Jonty Heaversedge at a surgery

in Stratford in east London.

Patients often tell us that they

feel they cannot get an appointment

with their GP as easily as they

should be able to, this will allow

patients to have access to a GP

seven days a week, even at the

weekend.

We think it will make a

real difference.

By extending the

elders, Willy be putting extra

pressure on the GPs themselves? --

extending the hours, will you be

putting extra pressure on.

We are

offering 75,000 extra appointments

every month, that is a significant

increase, GPs have come together to

deliver these collaborative terms.

Together they will be able to offer

appointments through hubs in local

areas, so we know that GPs will find

this very beneficial.

There is some

evidence that appointments are not

being used and places where this has

been trialled, on Saturdays and

Sundays, how do you make sure they

are being used and facilities

resources are not being wasted?

Obviously it is really important

that we get the message out there.

I'm curried people to be using these

appointments. We know that people

have asked to have this access,

people who work want to have the

opportunity to see a GP in the

evening and weekends. We really hope

able take up the opportunity and we

will see the appointment

particularly through the winter,

when there is tremendous pressure,

we hope appointments will be used.

Thank you very much. As we saw,

75,000 extra GP appointments every

month in London, but it is a case of

making people aware that they exist.

The chairman of one

of London's leading hospital

trust's has resigned,

accusing the government of failing

to recognise the "enormous

challenges" facing the NHS.

Lord Kerslake said King's

College Hospital Trust

was struggling to cope with rising

demand and limits on spending.

The regulator for England said

the trust's financial performance

was "the worst in the NHS".

But Lord Kerslake claims he's

brought the deficit down.

Through some really hard work over

the last two years or so we have

brought it down by over a third, in

fact, we have saved, in each of the

last two years, £80 million, twice

the national average. The challenges

of rising demand, rising costs, and

an expectation to bring down that

deficit, even faster, it has proven

very difficult, and this year has

been particularly challenging.

Now 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 hundreds

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

details and personal histories,

Carol Crawley knows first hand, the

real-life devastation that can be

caused when those details are

leaked. She lives on the Andover

estate, Finsbury Park, where

sensitive details of dozens of

residents were published online, six

of her neighbours had to be rehoused

for their own safety. She no longer

trusts giving personal information

online.

No, not after it has

happened twice, if they can do it

twice, they can do it quite a few

more times! If you think about it.

Are you now careful what you

disclose?

Yes, definitely, everybody

should be.

Parking fine private

details were also published,

Islington Council said in a

statement:

some campaigners say they have not

gone far enough.

We have seen

people's personal dates of birth,

sexual orientation, housing

situation released to the public. We

have seen the names and addresses of

witness statements, released, to the

perpetrators, time and again, we

have seen incompetence from this

council regarding data protection.

Legal experts say it is time for all

organisations in London to invest in

secure systems ahead of law changes

in the New Year. High security costs

will be small, compared to fines.

The plan is £500,000, that will go

up to between two to 4% of an

organisation's turnover, or, ten to

20 million euros, whichever is

higher. That is a huge increase in

fines for organisation.

For those

trusting organisations with personal

information, tighter rules and fines

have to be welcomed. For those

already facing budget cuts, it is a

cost they can be doing without, and

data security is not an exact

science.

At the grand age of 85,

a grandmother from Berkshire

is celebrating gaining not her first

but

fifth

university degree.

Anne Latto from Emmer Green picked

up her PhD in story telling

from the University of Reading

36 years after she

first studied there.

Edward Sault has been to meet her.

I am 85, it sounds extraordinary

to say so, I can hardly believe it.

Anne has spent her life

as an actress and teacher.

She already holds degrees

in film, drama, teaching

and cognitive revolution.

I didn't set out to do five degrees

but film and drama have been

at the heart of my work all my life.

I have taken up storytelling,

like you, telling a story.

Yes, I suppose I have some sort

of thirst for knowledge.

Despite that thirst,

this

degree almost proved too much.

I had gone in twice

and said, I can't go on.

The last time I said that,

I took them a bunch of flowers each.

I came home and I thought, you have

written quite a number of words.

What are you going to do?

This is ridiculous.

I e-mailed and said, I am going on.

This is the building where Anne

did her fifth degree.

She is not alone.

With more mature students over

the age of 50 deciding

now is the right time

to go to university.

In the last academic year,

the university had 492

students over 50,

working across all degree levels.

I would say to people, go for it.

The world is in such a state.

If you can find something positive

to tell people about, why not?

Anne has certainly proved age

should be no barrier.

Edward Sault, BBC London News.

Seriously putting me to shame!

After all the snow yesterday,

it looks like there's

more on the way.

Kate Kinsella has all the weather.

Not a pleasant day, not as exciting

as yesterday, heavy rain, sleet

mixed in there, as you can see, a

brisk northerly wind making

everything feel cold as well, this

afternoon, more rain, sleet and

snow, risk of ice as well. The Met

office has issued another yellow

weather warning for snow and ice.

Lower ground, still falling as rain,

higher ground, falling as snow.

Writer spells further north, it will

still be cold, risk of ice as

temperatures dropped down to zero.

Dangerous driving conditions

potentially, the rest of the rain

will clear overnight, leaving the

sky clear, windfall lighter,

temperature plummets. Where we had

snow, we will have colder

temperatures, -7, -8 in some spots.

Central London getting down...

Widespread frost, risk of icy

stretches, particularly on treated

roads and surfaces. With the cloud

clearing overnight, sunshine, cold

but crisp winter 's day for Tuesday,

temperatures struggling to go beyond

zero, with a maximum of three

Celsius. Into Wednesday, slightly

milder air, temperatures back up and

a warm eight Celsius, not very warm,

staying cold, not as cold as today,

but as cold tomorrow.

That's about it from me.

Riz will be here at 6:30 tonight

with the evening programme.

Plenty more on Facebook.

But for now, from us all,

have a very good afternoon.