28/10/2016 Look East (West)

First tonight, the region's newest hospital is taking

All this week on Look East, we've been looking at the d`ily

pressure on our hospitals, with too many people heading

unnecessarily to A departlents, plus so-called bed-blocking,

when it's difficult to discharge medically healthy patients.

But today the new Papworth Hospital was topped out.

Our health reporter Nikki Fox was there.

A skyline of steel, this collection of cranes creating a global

The future of the NHS - specialist centres centralised

on one site, where the best in the country collaborate.

All our patients have got more diseases than they used to have

they're getting older, they're getting more complex

diseases, and so all the other specialties will be here.

And then for the future pathents, we need to make sure

we have our research and edtcation institute based here, which will be

built alongside the new hospital, and that'll allow us to provide

The old Papworth Hospital d`tes back to the First World War,

the village a sanctuary to treat patients with tuberculosis.

In 1979, surgeons performed the UK's first heart transplant,

Today, the final concrete slab sealing the roof was set in place.

It'll make life easier for the doctors and nurses,

even better care, and as I mentioned, the fact that it's right

next-door to Addenbrookes, that's a two-pronged

This, the first look at the new skeleton

The majority of those are all single rooms.

So for infection control purposes, and for privacy and dignity,

And controlling those environments and making them very

Is that a mistake when demand is growing?

No, at the moment we have open wards, open bays.

We have to keep men and womdn in different locations.

In the single rooms, you can keep your occupancy up

because you're not having to worry about the gender specifics.

Equally, we have to close w`rd areas for infection control measures.

The initial cost to replace the old Papworth, ?165 millhon

Some think it might lack the tranquility of the past,

But it will be an international heart and lung centre,

and others say it will provhde a lasting legacy for the future

The Health Secretary, Jeremx Hunt, was in the region today

at Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon, and a mental health

Our political reporter Tom Barton questioned him about the nedd

for more NHS funding, with hospitals in the East facing

debts of ?300 million by the end of the year.

The funding that we've put into the NHS, which is an extra

?4 billion this year alone, is what the NHS asked for this year.

But it's not enough for hospitals, is it, crucially?

Well, it's what the NHS askdd for, balancing what they need

for hospitals and mental he`lth services and GPs and the rest,

but it's also true that in parts of the country,

demand has gone up by more than anticipated and it feels very tough.

But there are lots of things we can do and are doing very

successfully to help hospit`ls control their budgets.

One of them is reducing the dependence on agency st`ff,

but what I think you can't fault is the incredible commitment

A woman who started a new lhfe in the Fens says her love story has

Alex Chapman married a farmdr here four years ago and had a child.

But the Home Office says shd must return to her native New Ze`land.

Our chief reporter, Kim Riley, went to meet her.

She's a farm girl from New Zealand who met her husband Will

They have a five-month-old daughter, Olivia.

Alex's 2.5 year visa expired last December.

It was a bombshell when just after Christmas last year they heard

that her application for le`ve to remain was refused.

Alex works in the office of WR Chapman Son,

at Eastmore near Swaffham, run by her husband.

The Home Office, not satisfhed with information about her leans,

nor convinced it would be a serious hardship for the couple

An appeal process has draggdd on for a year, and with

Alex's New Zealand passport being withheld by the Home Office,

It's a bit distressing really, obviously, the position we're in.

Alex and I and our little d`ughter would like to go and see thd rest

of Alex's family at Christm`s-time in New Zealand and we're struggling

And also we want to go and see Alex's elderly grandparents,

They open their arms to all the others coming in but then

there's people like me, I just feel like they don't really

And I've never had any monex from the Government or anything -

I've always worked and paid my taxes and you do feel like they don't want

Yeah, I do get quite upset about it sometimes.

Alex plays an important rold in a firm whose agricultural

contracting and plant-hire business has a ?2.8 million annual ttrnover

Jobs are likely to disappear if she and Will had to move abroad

They've already spent almost ?5 000 on legal fees and costs.

It'll cost thousands more to be represented at an appeal

hearing scheduled for next February, but now postponed.

Last year, Will and Alex lost their baby daughter Dahsy

They're daring to hope for `nother precious gift like Olivia

That's an official acceptance that Alex is welcome here.

In rugby, Northampton held off a Gloucester fightback

to battle their way to a Prdmiership win at Franklin's Gardens.

Tom Kessell scored the winnhng try to make the final score 23- 0.

It could have been all tied up with a draw in the 73rd mintte

with Gloucester's James Hook missing a penalty.

It was a tight battle, with Gloucester threatening throtghout.

Time now for the weather - here's Julie with a look

Hello, it's a largely dry nhght ahead, quite cloudy, too,

with a few clear intervals and patchy mist and fog.

Temperatures for most of us should stay in double figures

with very light winds, and these mean that tomorrow morning

the mist and fog might take a while to clear,

And like today, at times we should see this cloud thinning

and breaking, allowing some brightness through,

so where we get the sunshind, temperatures could actually get

a degree or so higher than these values.

On Sunday, again, some mist and fog may take a little while to clear

but then it's a largely dry day hopefully with some sunny spells

In a moment, Nick will have the national forecast

On Monday, again some early mist and fog but that should then clear

to leave a fine and dry day, and then Tuesday, sunny spells

to start the day but then some thicker cloud and outbreaks

of mainly light and patchy rain for a time.

week as well. Now the national picture.

Hello, it's been a pretty good week for getting out and enjoying the

autumn colours, especially if you have seen autumn sunshine. What

sunshine, if you have been in Manchester or the Wirral, damp in

places. Ty Gifford had it better, and Deal in Kent, with sunshine

It's high pressure and settled weather but the flow of air may be

mild but winning in moisture, not necessarily in the form of rain

Many others will be staying dry but in the form of cloud. Some mild

made it cloudy this weekend and patchy fog overnight and into the

morning. Perhaps misty and murky across western hills of Britain

through the night. England and Wales seeing patchy lower-level fog,

developing into Northern Ireland as well, once we shift the drizzle

some of that in northern England and West of