:00:08. > :00:10.First tonight, the region's newest hospital is taking
:00:11. > :00:14.All this week on Look East, we've been looking at the d`ily
:00:15. > :00:17.pressure on our hospitals, with too many people heading
:00:18. > :00:20.unnecessarily to A departlents, plus so-called bed-blocking,
:00:21. > :00:25.when it's difficult to discharge medically healthy patients.
:00:26. > :00:27.But today the new Papworth Hospital was topped out.
:00:28. > :00:38.Our health reporter Nikki Fox was there.
:00:39. > :00:40.A skyline of steel, this collection of cranes creating a global
:00:41. > :00:49.The future of the NHS - specialist centres centralised
:00:50. > :00:51.on one site, where the best in the country collaborate.
:00:52. > :00:54.All our patients have got more diseases than they used to have
:00:55. > :00:56.they're getting older, they're getting more complex
:00:57. > :01:00.diseases, and so all the other specialties will be here.
:01:01. > :01:02.And then for the future pathents, we need to make sure
:01:03. > :01:05.we have our research and edtcation institute based here, which will be
:01:06. > :01:08.built alongside the new hospital, and that'll allow us to provide
:01:09. > :01:14.The old Papworth Hospital d`tes back to the First World War,
:01:15. > :01:18.the village a sanctuary to treat patients with tuberculosis.
:01:19. > :01:23.In 1979, surgeons performed the UK's first heart transplant,
:01:24. > :01:33.Today, the final concrete slab sealing the roof was set in place.
:01:34. > :01:35.It'll make life easier for the doctors and nurses,
:01:36. > :01:38.even better care, and as I mentioned, the fact that it's right
:01:39. > :01:40.next-door to Addenbrookes, that's a two-pronged
:01:41. > :01:47.This, the first look at the new skeleton
:01:48. > :01:53.The majority of those are all single rooms.
:01:54. > :01:56.So for infection control purposes, and for privacy and dignity,
:01:57. > :01:59.And controlling those environments and making them very
:02:00. > :02:11.Is that a mistake when demand is growing?
:02:12. > :02:14.No, at the moment we have open wards, open bays.
:02:15. > :02:17.We have to keep men and womdn in different locations.
:02:18. > :02:19.In the single rooms, you can keep your occupancy up
:02:20. > :02:22.because you're not having to worry about the gender specifics.
:02:23. > :02:28.Equally, we have to close w`rd areas for infection control measures.
:02:29. > :02:30.The initial cost to replace the old Papworth, ?165 millhon
:02:31. > :02:35.Some think it might lack the tranquility of the past,
:02:36. > :02:42.But it will be an international heart and lung centre,
:02:43. > :02:52.and others say it will provhde a lasting legacy for the future
:02:53. > :02:54.The Health Secretary, Jeremx Hunt, was in the region today
:02:55. > :02:57.at Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon, and a mental health
:02:58. > :03:03.Our political reporter Tom Barton questioned him about the nedd
:03:04. > :03:06.for more NHS funding, with hospitals in the East facing
:03:07. > :03:10.debts of ?300 million by the end of the year.
:03:11. > :03:13.The funding that we've put into the NHS, which is an extra
:03:14. > :03:17.?4 billion this year alone, is what the NHS asked for this year.
:03:18. > :03:20.But it's not enough for hospitals, is it, crucially?
:03:21. > :03:23.Well, it's what the NHS askdd for, balancing what they need
:03:24. > :03:28.for hospitals and mental he`lth services and GPs and the rest,
:03:29. > :03:30.but it's also true that in parts of the country,
:03:31. > :03:35.demand has gone up by more than anticipated and it feels very tough.
:03:36. > :03:38.But there are lots of things we can do and are doing very
:03:39. > :03:40.successfully to help hospit`ls control their budgets.
:03:41. > :03:43.One of them is reducing the dependence on agency st`ff,
:03:44. > :03:46.but what I think you can't fault is the incredible commitment
:03:47. > :03:54.A woman who started a new lhfe in the Fens says her love story has
:03:55. > :03:59.Alex Chapman married a farmdr here four years ago and had a child.
:04:00. > :04:02.But the Home Office says shd must return to her native New Ze`land.
:04:03. > :04:06.Our chief reporter, Kim Riley, went to meet her.
:04:07. > :04:09.She's a farm girl from New Zealand who met her husband Will
:04:10. > :04:14.They have a five-month-old daughter, Olivia.
:04:15. > :04:16.Alex's 2.5 year visa expired last December.
:04:17. > :04:19.It was a bombshell when just after Christmas last year they heard
:04:20. > :04:24.that her application for le`ve to remain was refused.
:04:25. > :04:27.Alex works in the office of WR Chapman Son,
:04:28. > :04:29.at Eastmore near Swaffham, run by her husband.
:04:30. > :04:32.The Home Office, not satisfhed with information about her leans,
:04:33. > :04:35.nor convinced it would be a serious hardship for the couple
:04:36. > :04:42.An appeal process has draggdd on for a year, and with
:04:43. > :04:44.Alex's New Zealand passport being withheld by the Home Office,
:04:45. > :04:53.It's a bit distressing really, obviously, the position we're in.
:04:54. > :04:57.Alex and I and our little d`ughter would like to go and see thd rest
:04:58. > :05:01.of Alex's family at Christm`s-time in New Zealand and we're struggling
:05:02. > :05:08.And also we want to go and see Alex's elderly grandparents,
:05:09. > :05:14.They open their arms to all the others coming in but then
:05:15. > :05:17.there's people like me, I just feel like they don't really
:05:18. > :05:21.And I've never had any monex from the Government or anything -
:05:22. > :05:24.I've always worked and paid my taxes and you do feel like they don't want
:05:25. > :05:29.Yeah, I do get quite upset about it sometimes.
:05:30. > :05:41.Alex plays an important rold in a firm whose agricultural
:05:42. > :05:45.contracting and plant-hire business has a ?2.8 million annual ttrnover
:05:46. > :05:51.Jobs are likely to disappear if she and Will had to move abroad
:05:52. > :05:56.They've already spent almost ?5 000 on legal fees and costs.
:05:57. > :05:59.It'll cost thousands more to be represented at an appeal
:06:00. > :06:03.hearing scheduled for next February, but now postponed.
:06:04. > :06:05.Last year, Will and Alex lost their baby daughter Dahsy
:06:06. > :06:10.They're daring to hope for `nother precious gift like Olivia
:06:11. > :06:19.That's an official acceptance that Alex is welcome here.
:06:20. > :06:22.In rugby, Northampton held off a Gloucester fightback
:06:23. > :06:26.to battle their way to a Prdmiership win at Franklin's Gardens.
:06:27. > :06:31.Tom Kessell scored the winnhng try to make the final score 23- 0.
:06:32. > :06:37.It could have been all tied up with a draw in the 73rd mintte
:06:38. > :06:39.with Gloucester's James Hook missing a penalty.
:06:40. > :06:41.It was a tight battle, with Gloucester threatening throtghout.
:06:42. > :06:45.Time now for the weather - here's Julie with a look
:06:46. > :06:49.Hello, it's a largely dry nhght ahead, quite cloudy, too,
:06:50. > :06:51.with a few clear intervals and patchy mist and fog.
:06:52. > :06:54.Temperatures for most of us should stay in double figures
:06:55. > :06:56.with very light winds, and these mean that tomorrow morning
:06:57. > :06:58.the mist and fog might take a while to clear,
:06:59. > :07:03.And like today, at times we should see this cloud thinning
:07:04. > :07:04.and breaking, allowing some brightness through,
:07:05. > :07:06.so where we get the sunshind, temperatures could actually get
:07:07. > :07:08.a degree or so higher than these values.
:07:09. > :07:12.On Sunday, again, some mist and fog may take a little while to clear
:07:13. > :07:15.but then it's a largely dry day hopefully with some sunny spells
:07:16. > :07:18.In a moment, Nick will have the national forecast
:07:19. > :07:22.On Monday, again some early mist and fog but that should then clear
:07:23. > :07:25.to leave a fine and dry day, and then Tuesday, sunny spells
:07:26. > :07:28.to start the day but then some thicker cloud and outbreaks
:07:29. > :07:33.of mainly light and patchy rain for a time.
:07:34. > :07:38.week as well. Now the national picture.
:07:39. > :07:44.Hello, it's been a pretty good week for getting out and enjoying the
:07:45. > :07:50.autumn colours, especially if you have seen autumn sunshine. What
:07:51. > :07:55.sunshine, if you have been in Manchester or the Wirral, damp in
:07:56. > :07:59.places. Ty Gifford had it better, and Deal in Kent, with sunshine
:08:00. > :08:04.It's high pressure and settled weather but the flow of air may be
:08:05. > :08:07.mild but winning in moisture, not necessarily in the form of rain
:08:08. > :08:13.Many others will be staying dry but in the form of cloud. Some mild
:08:14. > :08:16.made it cloudy this weekend and patchy fog overnight and into the
:08:17. > :08:20.morning. Perhaps misty and murky across western hills of Britain
:08:21. > :08:24.through the night. England and Wales seeing patchy lower-level fog,
:08:25. > :08:29.developing into Northern Ireland as well, once we shift the drizzle
:08:30. > :08:30.some of that in northern England and West of