31/03/2017 Look East

Hello and welcome to Look East with Susie and me.

The future shape of the NHS in our region.

There is a pledge to speed up cancer care.

And more help for young people with mental illness.

But concerns tonight, routine operations could fall behind.

In no other aspects of our lives are we now been expected to wait longer

for a service. It goes against everything we expect in the modern

age. The misery - and the

cost - of flooding. Sea front traders in

Southend demand action. I will be live on the banks of the

River Thames ahead of the boat race on Sunday were the Cambridge men are

hoping to make it two wins in a row and the Cambridge women hope to make

amends for last year 's disappointment.

I think girls is better, boys show off too much. Some people think boys

can play football and girls can't but we are going to prove them

wrong. The future shape of the NHS

in our region was announced today - with better care promised for cancer

patients and younger people The two year programme will involve

what the NHS calls a "radical" upgrade to cancer care,

with new state of the art radiotherapy machines

at hospitals in Norwich, There will also be a focus

on services for mental health. With a 10% increase

in the number of beds available And mental health staff will offer

a round the clock emergency service NHS England East says services

will be delivered in a more joined up way meaning greater

access for patients. But waiting times for routine

surgery are likely to get longer. NHS England claims the planned

upgrade in cancer services will save many lives though this region will

not be getting one of four and new one-stop testing centres, they are

going elsewhere. Leading hospitals will be receiving new or upgraded

machines, the Royal College of radiologists says the aim of speedy

diagnosis and treatment is admirable but unlikely to be realised because

of a shortage of radiologists. The main question is to increase the

number of radiologists in the United Kingdom so we can address the amount

of work we have to do so patients are not suffering by having these

massive delays in the waiting for the reports on their stands. Four

months ago we found that a specialist mental health unit in

Chelmsford. The birth of baby Paris led to build it becoming unwell with

the conditions which affects one in a thousand new mothers. The location

of the new mother and baby unit in the region should become known in

the summer. Beds here in Lowestoft have been standing empty because of

a shortage of funding, today a commitment to increase the number of

mental health beds available to young people. Within two years many

AMD departments will include mental health staff and bring

round-the-clock support and commitment to new urgent treatment

centres and evening and weekend access to GP services. You could

throw a lot of money at the issues we are facing currently but it will

not resolve the fact we are trying and finding it difficult to recruit

more GPs and nurses, so it's the reason nursing aspect which is going

to be a challenge. This former health minister welcomed the

prioritising of cancer care and mental health services. But there is

a big downside to this, they are acknowledging people will wait

longer for operations and that's a really serious concern. Imagine, in

no other aspects of our lives are we now expected to wait longer for a

service, it goes against everything we expect in the modern age and my

concern is that this is a sort of creeping retreat of the NHS. Jeremy

Hunt was on the visit to a Norwich care home, we were told he was not

available to be interviewed and he was ushered out of the back door and

sped away from the waiting media. We are already facing a shortage

of GPs in this region, So when I spoke to Simon Evans -

a regional director of NHS England - I asked him if he was confident

he could find enough doctors who would be prepared to work

in the evenings and at weekends. I think we wouldn't be expecting an

individual GP to be working seven days a week with extended access but

we do need to respond to the needs of our population, different GPs as

individuals as we all do have different preferences for their

working lives and their working pattern is and we are confident of

providing that level of extended access for everybody in the East of

England by March 20 19. And you are confident enough you can get enough

people to work and mental health services to give this service you

are promising? In mental health in the East of England we have done

well out of today's announcement. There are four mother and baby units

for mothers with mental health issues, we are procuring one of

those for East Anglia. We have a mental health liaison going into

four of our hospitals. Those liaison teams will be able to provide

clinicians in accident and emergency as well as the wards with a one hour

response time to support those clinicians who have patients with

mental health issues so I think that's good news. I know you want to

concentrate on where you will make improvements but actually there are

going to be, there is a cost to be paid and that will be paid by

patients waiting longer. We are concentrating on the areas patients

tell us are the important areas. If I need a hip replacement and have to

wait longer than I have in the past that would be what I wanted you to

concentrate on. So we have two -- have to listen to the broader range

of patients as well as individuals. We will continue to try to deliver

on all of our target and continue to work with clinicians and managers

and hospitals and GPs and other people who deliver services in terms

of, it's not just about surgery but good physiotherapy and services in

the community. We will use the hip as the example, if I had a hip

replacement operation I thought was going to take three months, four

months, how much longer would it take now? I do not have those

figures to hand I'm afraid. But it would take longer? That's not a

guarantee. We will continue to work. We will continue to make clinical

priorities for individual patients so they can be treated as soon as we

can. So if I have to wait longer I don't need the operation is that

what you are saying? That is not what I am saying, I am saying with

all operations they are done by clinical priority. Thank you.

The children's services department at Norfolk county council has

received an encouraging review from Ofsted.

The department was rated as inadequate 18 months ago.

In the latest report by the education watchdog it praises

management changes and says staff morale has improved.

But it says the department is still not providing a good

The thing that has been remarked on and we are pleased to see in this

letter is the decisive action taken by the council to put new leadership

in place, to renew our commitments to raise the planning, raise the

performance information, get the support the front line staff that

they need to do the job. A 22 year old man remains in police

custody following a crime spree The man was arrested at Norwich

train station following reports of a rape in the Ten Bell Court area

of the city. Police are also investigating

a sexual assault and two robberies Traders on the sea front in Southend

are blaming a new paved area They say the work has made

the area more vulnerable. And they want the borough

council to act. The council denies the problem

is caused by the paving. Every day Martin puts up flood

barriers and its cost him ?30,000. That's a fraction of the ?300,000 in

uninsured losses he says his business has suffered. There have

been three floods in four years, this is the latest ten months ago.

The rain was not torrential, new drains installed by the council

proved useless. Does not take a rocket scientist to see they have

tipped the seafront towards the premises. What can you do? It's

Southend council's problem. They built and endorsed the seafront.

Traders say the trouble began after the redevelopment in 2010. More

flooding is inevitable. Paul Thompson runs several businesses and

says six years have passed with nothing done to prevent further

flooding. He believes the council will not admit fault for fear of a

Russian compensation claims. The disappointing thing about the

council is a siege mentality sets in with the officers and they do not

have the ability to hold their hands up and say sorry we have made a

mistake and we will fix it. It's no coincidence that since city beach

was completed there has been four serious incidents of flooding. The

council insist the paving is not to blame, more extreme rainfall since

the work to finish is. And it is working with Anglian Water to find a

solution. We need to get storage tanks, we are a coastal town and

with their heavy rainfall we are getting there is no way you can just

cater for the downpours we get when a tight, a bright spring tide comes

in which holds all the drainage barbs closed. Bud Martin is

unconvinced saying he has endured years of stress and financial loss

and his business would be uninsurable without his new

precautions. You're watching Look East

with Susie and me. Stay with us for Julie's

weekend weather forecast. We'll be live beside

the River Thames to speak to Cambridge ahead

of the University Boat Race. And, we go behind the scenes at one

of Britain's most advanced cinemas. The world of politics this

week has been dominated On Wednesday we heard from MPs

on both sides on the day Yesterday, we spoke

to the international trade secretary who told us securing a good deal

for our farmers was a priority. But how is this all going

down over in Brussels Some of our Euro MPs

will be on the front line Our political correspondent

Andrew Sinclair has been to Brussels In some respects life here is

continuing as normal, MEPs continue to discuss a range of different

topics while hundreds of tourists like this group from the Eastern

region drop in everyday to watch Parliament in action. I hope they

make the best of it and we can sort out trade agreements with different

countries and still have a good relationship with Europe. I think it

is incumbent on those in government to ensure we get the best possible

deal. It will take a long time before we are in a position to say

if it was a success. And how easy will it be? Most people here

expected to be a complicated business and that's borne out by the

experiences of our own MEPs. They have been holding meetings across

the region and listening to people's concerns. There is a gathering of EU

nationals last month. A huge amount of devil in the detail and I am

giving them as much as I can of the concerns put to me back to the

powers that be at Westminster and Brussels. Every different company

and sector I talk to tells me about yet another Brexit problem perhaps

one I have not thought about or heard about before and I think it's

going to be deeply, deeply difficult period. But not everyone here

agrees, this man a key member of the Leave campaign. I am confident we

will get a great deal, we are hearing some pragmatic voices at

last. A lot of people are saying it will be difficult and you don't

realise how difficult? We are not reinventing the wheel, we are

following the guidelines set by the World Trade Organisation and I think

we can keep it pretty straight forward. Who is right we just don't

know. But whatever side of the debate they are all in all of our

MEPs are doing their bit to try and get the region a good deal out of

Brexit. Andrew is here, how influential will

our MEPs be? In one respect not much because the negotiations are being

run by the European Commission which is down the road on the parliament

but European politics is about behind the scenes lobbying and MEPs

at brussels talk to their national governments who in turn feed into

the European negotiations so the likes of the men and women you saw

in that package are all talking to their opposite numbers to try to

find out areas we have in common over the things which matter to us,

agriculture, science, technology, in the hope it will go up the line to

the national governments that these other things we need a good deal on.

On top of that our MEPs are also talking to people here in the region

and feeding into the brush it should -- British negotiators things which

are imported in this region. And Parliament has broken up Easter.

Yes, what happens now a lot of attention turns to local elections

and we will be talking about them on Sunday politics this week. Thank you

Andrew. It's one of the oldest sporting

events in the world. The University Boat Race gets

underway on Sunday with the women's race at just after half past four

and the men's event an hour later. Cambridge go into

the race with 82 wins. As always the race will be

watched by an audience Let's go to the River Thames now

to Putney and James Burridge. Yes, well, to south-west London,

pretty close, look how close we are tonight, in about 48 hours' time the

famous scene you see the individual rowers taking their orders down to

the water 's edge, they get into the eights and will make their way to

the startling just shy of Putney Bridge and then there was

nerve-racking moments where they await the umpire to see go. We have

spent some time behind the scenes with the men and the women of

Cambridge University and this is the poetry story. Everyone is waking up

at 5am. It's a big commitment everyone is making to be part of

this team. It's hard to put into words how hard the boat race is. You

always build confidence in what you are doing so every year I have got

to the race thinking I am confident in the girls around me. A bit more

positive on the press. It's not like any other race, you have moving

water underneath you, if you did a normal start like you would at any

normal race the blades would get sucked down to the bottom of the

river before the guys have even stood up to see get ready. Six

months preparation for just 17 minutes on the water, four miles,

374 yards of excruciating pain battling a boat and the conditions.

Last year for the Cambridge women the conditions almost beat them. Red

flag is being waved and in the shadow of the bridge Cambridge are

sinking. Every crew has a chat were you sit down and say what would we

do if and we had our conversation and nobody thought we were going to

almost sank. You could have as many conversations as you like and

something can still come and E and additional challenge. Spare a

thought for the person who has to steer, both crews looking for the

quickest line and the fastest water. Do you get nervous? I do before the

race but on the start line I will be nervous but once we go it all clicks

into routine. You can feel the focus of everyone in the crew prepared and

ready to start. Can you describe the physical exertions? A lot of time

after the race I do not remember a lot of went on. You find a deep dark

place inside yourself during every race. That's a place at you don't

want to talk about. Come Sunday tea-time over 200,000 will be

crammed on the banks of the Thames to watch their moment on the water.

Millions more on TV, the river whose will feel along well with.

Fairly calm in Putney, Cambridge are the heavier bought by about three

kilograms, Oxford are the favourites. Ashton brown in the

women's crew developed pneumonia and was out of action for six months

after last year is almost sinking so she has got revenge on her mind

ahead of the race. Thank you James.

For Ipswich Town tomorrow is what they are calling

And this week girls from a number of local primary schools have been

taking part in training sessions with some of the players.

About a quarter of all footballers in this country are female

but the FA's trying to boost participation further.

More than 10,000 have already signed up for their national

An increasingly familiar sight, girls enjoying a Kickabout for fun

and competitively to, ahead of ladies day at Ipswich local

schoolchildren have been putting their heroes through their paces.

It's nice to see the club trying to boost participation. We have people

willing to come down and help and bid on sessions and the girls have

enjoyed it and it's nice to see people running around without as

much pressure as we have on Saturday. I was just saying we had a

tough morning this morning and to come down here was just as tough,

the girls are very competitive and have a real winning streak. I have

had a few shouting at me! Football clearly now no longer a man's game.

Me and my brother like to play against each other but he is always

like I will go easy but I just want to say you don't have to because I

am really good. I think girls is better but boys show off too much.

Some people think boys can play football and girls can't but we are

going to prove them wrong. Almost 12 million people play football in this

country. Just under 9 million are male. Almost 3 million, around a

quarter, Artie Miele and the women's game is growing fast. Next month

Savic FAO launches its new wildcat clubs, and nationwide scheme

encouraging 5-11 -year-olds to play. 200 in the country, four in Suffolk

where football is taking off. The challenge at times is the culture of

players who do not realise it can be their sport. But with how well the

lioness is done in the World Cup it shows there is an opportunity for

girls. One well-known lioness visited Milton Keynes today to share

tips with the rising star is. England's women are back in action

at Stadium MK a week on Monday. We have a responsibility because we are

role models. Back in Ipswich the girls have done their bit, no time

for the men to impress on ladies day with victory over Birmingham.

I love the Sass. If they can play football half as

well as they talk about it they will be world beaters.

And a tray packed full of ice cream tubs during the intermission.

But these days cinemas are very high tech.

And in Ipswich today a landmark moment.

A new 14 screen complex where the films are

It's the first of its kind in the region.

Exciting staff, extra large scissors and exposure galore as the Empire

opens its doors. Giving Ipswich a total of 27 screens. Too much? Not

by a long way, when you consider over 650 films are released per year

plus all the arts products and we struggle to play everything we would

like to. You can see why the question is being asked, still

derelict is the old Odeon which shut 12 years ago after being told it

could not compete. Back in 1961 and the cinema was the only place to be,

top titles, tasty treats and in Ipswich look through old snapshots

and the pictures have always been paramount, no pun intended. Remember

the good old days when the film was about the crackle of cellulite, the

projectionist doing his business? Not any more. Today it is lasers.

David was once a projectionist and is now in charge of this control

room and computers which pretty much run all 14 laser screens are needed.

For you there is no time or a sense of getting tearful, it is progress.

Absolutely. I do miss film, I think every projectionist out there Mrs

film but you have to move with the times. The Empire has taken two

years to create, converting what was a huge retail chunk of the butter

market and removing masses of concrete. There was a level of

concrete right the way through in particular here. The work the

builders have done here is amazing. I was here last June and it was just

a shell and to see it look like this now is incredible. It's really

exciting. Laser projection for the first time three years ago, the

first time I have seen technology that is a game changer, sometimes it

is presented and you think OK I cannot see the customer benefit but

this one has a real customer benefit. The picture quality, the

colours and sharpness and brightness is like nothing you have seen

before. There is a drive underway to rejuvenate this corner of time, the

Empire team say they are delighted and excited to be part of it.

isn't it? Let's get the weather, my other last night.

Most of staying in double figures last did not quite the direct third,

that was 1990 when it was down around 13 Celsius. But lots of us

last night were very close. Today there has been a lot of cloud

certainly compared to yesterday and some of this has produced rain and

showers but there has been blue sky. With the sunshine and a keen west

wind perfect conditions for drying. You can see on the radar and

satellite picture a little bits and pieces of showers which cleared

quickly and this afternoon has been largely fine and dry with spells of

sunshine. Tonight perhaps an odd isolated shower but for most of us

dry with long clear spells and another mild night but not as mild

as last night. Seven or eight Celsius above average for the time

of year and mainly light winds. Tomorrow this little feature brings

us that good old double act of sunshine and showers. Might be a dry

start for many but eventually the showers moving through if you see

one there could be hell and thunder and they will be slow-moving as we

will have mainly light side, south-westerly winds. In the best of

the sunshine temperatures up around 15. It will feel lovely because of

the light winds. I do think even through the afternoon and into the

evening there will be a lot of fine and dry weather, showers not for

everyone. That is Saturday and then on Sunday high pressure, this ridge

of high pressure building, I think for most of us it will be a fine and

dry day with a good deal of sunshine. Just a very small chance

of an isolated shower but it's looking pretty good for the boat

race in London on Sunday evening. Fine and dry with light winds.

That's the weekend, not too bad but there will be heavy and possibly

thundery showers on Saturday. Monday high-pressure continues to build so

it's looking driver everyone we could have missed and for

first-time, Tuesday a week for the front.

Thank you. The producer made a noise as the Sunday weather picture came

up. He is happy. Have a good weekend.