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First tonight, a new plan to try to ease pressures on our hospitals. | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
One of the biggest issues is so-called bed blockers, | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
mainly by elderly patients needing care home places. | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
Latest figures show Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge | :00:26. | :00:26. | |
lost more than 700 bed days that way, | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
while Northamptonshire lost just under 470. | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
In Hertfordshire they've come up with a pioneering scheme to help. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
Preparations for St Patrick's Day at Wisden Court care home in Stevenage. | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
Facilities like this can often be the best option for patients | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
But, up until now, the process of finding and booking care beds has | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
We spend a lot of time on the telephone trying to establish | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
Now, sometimes there's ten, there could be more homes and phoning | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
around the homes and actually getting an answer, I could only get | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
perhaps two answers and yet I had spent all that time on the phone. | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
Now, the council has come up with a new way | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
to tackle the problem, an online booking system, | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
allowing staff to search available places in real-time, | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
inputting the patient's details, clinical needs and preferences | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
This can then be picked up by the care home | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
It means firstly for the residents that they're not hanging around, | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
they're not waiting in the cold corridor, they're not blocking | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
For us it means that they're in more swiftly, | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
we don't have to go out and assess them, all that information | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
I'm just conducting an assessment for bed 29. | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
We are looking at a place in a residential | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
As part of the new system, patients are now seen by | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
impartial assessors like Heather, working here at the Lister Hospital. | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
So, I'm effectively the middleman between the care homes and a | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
And what I do is I conduct comprehensive assessments | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
to locate suitable homes for residents that are due to be | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
discharged but also it's saving the time | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
for care homes to come out and | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
actually assess themselves, knowing that the information | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
provided, because I am impartial, is accurate | :02:25. | :02:25. | |
and is deemed suitable for | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
This system has been up and running for | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
several months and from April will be accessible to the public. | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
she's a full-time carer to her father-in-law Alf | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
and from time to time needs to book respite care. | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
It will be very useful to have somewhere straightforward that I can | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
go to that is going to give me some access to all the information that I | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
want in one place because sometimes it is quite complicated and there | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
This is believed to be the first system of its kind in the UK. | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
And with 353 hospital bed days being saved in just six months, | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
it's hoped the idea will now spread across the country. | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
Kate Bradbrook, BBC Look East, in Stevenage. | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
Computer gaming is a ?4 billion business and | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
But there's concern that Brexit could end that | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
if it restricts their ability to recruit across Europe. | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
An epic voyage into the Viking heartlands and a chance to escape to | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
a parallel universe at the flick of a button. | :03:33. | :03:42. | |
More than 30 million Britons play video games every day, | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
with companies like Ninja Theory in Cambridge feeding the frenzy but | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
90 people work at this company, a third | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
The games industry is global and it is moving very, | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
very quickly and so you find specialists emerging | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
in order to remain world leaders, we absolutely have to to employ | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
According to the trade body that represents the | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
industry, 40% of companies have considered relocating abroad because | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
Melina is the company's video editor, recruited from | :04:09. | :04:19. | |
Germany, she also plays the lead role in the new game. | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
Motion sensitive cameras capturing her every move. | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
But potential restrictions on who they hire and | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
from where means that with Brexit on the horizon, that competition | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
Mousumi Bakshi, BBC Look East, Cambridge. | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
At the outbreak of the Second World War, two young sailors | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
were serving off the coast of Chile when an earthquake | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
The bravery of Frank Burton and Basil Trott, now in their 90s, | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
was finally recognised today in Cambridge. | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
A thank you from the Chilean ambassador for what they | :04:54. | :05:03. | |
did for his country nearly 80 years ago. | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
1939, two Chilean cities flattened in a devastating | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
Frank Burton was on HMS Ajax, Basil Trott, HMS Exeter | :05:12. | :05:21. | |
The Navy launched a humanitarian mission. | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
Absolutely aghast at the demolition that had | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
Especially as we had been in that town only a week previously. | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
The thing I remember most about the earthquake | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
I had a full pint of beer on the table and the earthquake | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
happened and the glass went like that and some of the beer | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
Chile planned to decorate all officers and men but | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
Finally, for these two veterans in Cambridge, recognition. | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
We believe that it is never late to recognise | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
this kind of support, that is why we came here today. | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
Here today, Frank's great-granddaughter. | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
He and Basil thought to be the last two to be decorated. | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
A proud moment for them and their families. | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
A number of our councils are raising money by setting up | :06:15. | :06:28. | |
Local authorities have seen their funding cut by 40% since 2010. | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
They were given the power to set up their own lotteries a decade ago. | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
Now councils in Daventry, King's Lynn, Peterborough and Corby | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
are planning to take up the opportunity to raise money | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
Some clear intervals and a bit patchy rain | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
And it's going to be mild, temperatures no lower | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
And quite a blustery west to west northerly wind. | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
So, tomorrow, again a lot of cloud around. | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
We might have a bit of rain and drizzle in places but for | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
many of us, it could be largely dry and hopefully the cloud thinning | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
and breaking at times to allow a little bit of brightness | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
Slightly warmer than today with highs of 14 Celsius, | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
And then Sunday, a bit of a question mark as to what exactly's | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
But it looks like it's going to be largely cloudy. | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
A bit of brightness and sunshine but now the better chance | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
Now, in a moment, Jay will have the national forecast | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
More like showers with some brightness on Tuesday. | :07:23. | :07:34. | |
it is rather breezy. Now for the national outlook. | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
It was quite a wet day across many northern and western parts of the | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
UK. This was the view in | :07:48. | :07:49. |