:00:00. > :00:00.Hello and welcome to the Look East late news.
:00:00. > :00:08.Clare Panniker's the first in the country to be in charge
:00:09. > :00:27.the handpainted house that took more than 40 years to decorate.
:00:28. > :00:34.and another frost expected tonight with the risk of freezing fog
:00:35. > :00:37.patches. I will have a full weather forecast for you later.
:00:38. > :00:42.It's been confirmed today three hospital trusts in Essex
:00:43. > :00:45.are under the control of one chief executive.
:00:46. > :00:51.Clare Panniker already runs the trusts in Basildon and Thurrock,
:00:52. > :00:54.Mid Essex, which includes Broomfield hospital, and now she's added
:00:55. > :01:05.Clare Panniker is used to taking on a challenge. Over the past five
:01:06. > :01:08.years, she has taken over the running of not one but two failing
:01:09. > :01:15.Basildon was in special messages when she became the boss in 2012.
:01:16. > :01:20.Two years later, it was rated as good byt the CQC.
:01:21. > :01:33.inadequate and services were unsafe, but in its latest CQC report, it was
:01:34. > :01:37.told health care was good. News of Clare Panniker's appointment at
:01:38. > :01:43.She has been heading up a so-called success regime,
:01:44. > :01:48.exploring how all three hospitals can work more efficiently together.
:01:49. > :01:52.We know health and care in Essex has to change. There will be concerns,
:01:53. > :01:54.it is a big job being responsible for three hospitals
:01:55. > :01:58.and what we could consider being the most
:01:59. > :02:02.important thing is this presents an opportunity to look at whether
:02:03. > :02:07.services, acute services, can be improved through that combined
:02:08. > :02:14.as NHS services in Essex, like elsewhere in the region, are being
:02:15. > :02:18.reorganised. What is happening generally around the country is
:02:19. > :02:22.increasingly organisations working more closely together, they
:02:23. > :02:26.recognise the impact on one health organisation, whether that be a
:02:27. > :02:30.hospital or community group or a groups of GPs has an impact
:02:31. > :02:37.makes sense to collaborate and work together to try and get the best for
:02:38. > :02:41.A bit like a super head brought in to help failing schools,
:02:42. > :02:45.Clare Panniker is the country's first chief executive
:02:46. > :02:51.It is a big job as all three hospitals are struggling
:02:52. > :03:01.Earlier this evening I spoke to Clare Panniker and put it to her,
:03:02. > :03:07.one boss, three hospitals was just a way of saving money.
:03:08. > :03:09.No, it is not all about saving money.
:03:10. > :03:12.In fact, we don't think we will save huge amounts of money
:03:13. > :03:15.by sharing our management in this way, because we do need to have
:03:16. > :03:18.good, strong local management as well as a shared executive team
:03:19. > :03:22.That said, we don't want it to cost more either,
:03:23. > :03:26.but it is a way of making sure that we've built on the success we have
:03:27. > :03:29.had today, of the three hospitals working together.
:03:30. > :03:32.This is the first time this has been done, no one has held
:03:33. > :03:35.a position like this before, in charge of three
:03:36. > :03:41.I mean, how big a challenge do you think this is going to be
:03:42. > :03:45.It's certainly going to be a challenge, I don't
:03:46. > :03:49.underestimate that at all, but it is not unprecedented.
:03:50. > :03:52.The difference here is we are doing it with three separate boards
:03:53. > :03:55.as opposed to one board across multiple sites
:03:56. > :03:58.and we deliberately chose not to go through a merger route at this
:03:59. > :04:01.stage, so we could focus on delivering
:04:02. > :04:08.But there will be patients and staff that may be concerned that
:04:09. > :04:12.you are going to be spreading yourself too thinly.
:04:13. > :04:18.Yes, I think that is a very understandable concern,
:04:19. > :04:21.but on a day to day basis, there are people on the ground
:04:22. > :04:25.who are focusing on the delivery of the operational and financial
:04:26. > :04:32.This is not about me and a few people trying to do everything.
:04:33. > :04:35.It's about aligning the strategic direction and providing that
:04:36. > :04:38.overview to make sure we make sensible decisions on behalf
:04:39. > :04:45.of the three hospitals and the populations that we serve.
:04:46. > :04:48.Meanwhile, the health service right across the region continues
:04:49. > :04:54.It's felt across the board, from GP surgeries to 111 call
:04:55. > :05:04.Ian Barmer is at the Longwater ambulance station in Norfolk now.
:05:05. > :05:11.Here is an example, the record-breaking demand for Ambulance
:05:12. > :05:15.Services over Christmas. The control room is handled 4060 calls and
:05:16. > :05:20.across the East, that is 800 calls more than last year but the
:05:21. > :05:23.Ambulance Service is just one part of a very big chain as Rob Lee
:05:24. > :05:25.Westwood ports. This morning, eight ambulances
:05:26. > :05:27.were queueing outside Colchester Part of sister Emma Carter's
:05:28. > :05:34.job is to find beds She does this while
:05:35. > :05:39.checking on patients. Lynn was rushed in after having
:05:40. > :05:42.an anaphylactic action. I felt so bad because as I came
:05:43. > :05:47.of the ambulance, there were queues I just really did feel awful
:05:48. > :06:00.because I could hear people crying. It has been extremely busy,
:06:01. > :06:03.definitely the busiest in the five The Chief Executive says the whole
:06:04. > :06:12.care system needs to work closely We have just about got
:06:13. > :06:17.through without any major Unless we do that and we do it
:06:18. > :06:23.urgently, what we look forward to, I think, would really worry me
:06:24. > :06:29.in terms of our ability to manage. All of the hospitals in the east
:06:30. > :06:31.experienced high levels In the norfolk, the NHS nonemergency
:06:32. > :06:50.phone advice centre received 27,000 There does not appear to be any sign
:06:51. > :06:54.of it letting up and the This morning, Dr Simon Rutland has
:06:55. > :07:06.had contact with 40 patients. The pressures that colleagues
:07:07. > :07:09.are flacing are enormous so we need We are changing what we do
:07:10. > :07:15.but we need to make sure Back at Colchester Hospital,
:07:16. > :07:24.more patients are arriving With a cold winter forecast,
:07:25. > :07:44.the current pressure It's worth reiterating, we have not
:07:45. > :07:50.had any severe weather yet this winter. If that happens, the
:07:51. > :07:52.pressure on the GPs, A will undoubtedly crank up.
:07:53. > :07:55.Next tonight, the terraced house untouched since Victorian times.
:07:56. > :07:58.It was owned by David Parr who inspired by
:07:59. > :08:03.He spent more than 40 years of his life decorating
:08:04. > :08:07.A ?600,000 grant will now ensure that it's restored and can be
:08:08. > :08:21.But inside it is still very much the 1890s.
:08:22. > :08:25.This house has been in the Parr family unchanged for well over
:08:26. > :08:30.a century, but until recently, few people knew what treasures
:08:31. > :08:37.Let me show you into the drawing-room.
:08:38. > :08:44.If we look over here, you can see the walls,
:08:45. > :08:48.which are all hand-painted and which he painted in 1912,
:08:49. > :08:55.The ceiling, which he painted in 1903, but he really did try
:08:56. > :09:02.David Parr made his living decorating grand buildings
:09:03. > :09:06.like stately homes and churches, but he also spent more than 40 years
:09:07. > :09:10.painting his own house in a similar style.
:09:11. > :09:14.If you needed to spend a penny here, even in 1893, there was no need
:09:15. > :09:19.to go outside because David Parr installed this toilet, which was
:09:20. > :09:27.The property is now owned by a trust and has been awarded ?625,000
:09:28. > :09:31.by the Heritage lottery fund so it can be renovated
:09:32. > :09:38.There are issues here, there is damp coming through,
:09:39. > :09:42.paint peeling and we wanted to stop that happening so that we can
:09:43. > :09:47.It will be two years before this house is fully restored.
:09:48. > :09:57.Visitors will then be able to get a glimpse into a world long gone.
:09:58. > :10:02.Coming up now the weather with Alex, but from the rest of the late team.
:10:03. > :10:17.Another cold night tonight, some of us already below freezing. Another
:10:18. > :10:23.hazard is freezing fog patches that may linger. Across the coast,
:10:24. > :10:28.staying above freezing but elsewhere, -1, miners to Celsius.
:10:29. > :10:32.The high pressure that is keeping things settled will be pushed away
:10:33. > :10:38.tomorrow as this weather system comes in from the West. There will
:10:39. > :10:43.be some fog around first thing, but ultimately milder weather coming our
:10:44. > :10:48.way for the weekend. As that weather system pushes in, increasingly
:10:49. > :10:55.amounts of cloud, a cold day, four or five Celsius, and by the end of
:10:56. > :10:58.the day, some and patchy rain. The outlook and it is a milder forecast
:10:59. > :11:03.for the weekend but it will stay creeping up by a notch or two, 10,
:11:04. > :11:11.maybe nine Celsius. Here is Louise with the national picture.
:11:12. > :11:18.Won't it cold and frosty this morning? The coldest night of the
:11:19. > :11:20.winter so far in England. Down to minus 8 Celsius.