21/03/2017 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

The main stories tonight One closed, two downgraded -

anger as minor injuries units are cut in East Yorkshire.

Vulnerable communities in the middle of nowhere have been hectic time and

time again. -- hit. They have ignored the proposals.

Drugs, punch-ups and fires - inspectors find an increase

in violence at a Lincolnshire immigration centre.

Quite an unsettled day in the forecast tomorrow. Join me later

another programme. -- in this programme.

It's been confirmed that the Minor Injuries Unit

in Hornsea is to close and those in Withernsea and Driffield

It means that people living in Holderness will have to travel

to either Beverley or Hull for emergency medical treatment.

The news has been greeted with dismay by protestors.

Here's our Health Correspondent, Vicky Johnson.

They suspected their protest would make little difference to today's

All furious that injuries units in Hornsea, Driffield

Driffield and Withernsea are

Vulnerable communities in the middle of nowhere

have been hit time and time again by groups like this who simply don't

I have a type of haemophilia that means if I cut

myself badly, to sit on a

bus all the way to Hull is just ridiculous because I bleed out.

At a packed meeting this afternoon board members pushed

to create three new urgent care centres at Beverley, Brdlington and

Goole, which would be open for 16 hours a day every day.

They would all offer a consistent rate of

advice and treatment including x-rays and it would be supported by

lower-level minor injuries units at Driffield and Withernsea.

Hornsea, though, will have no minor injuries unit

People who have got the least resources, means of transport

than anything, the fact that once again Hornsea loses out on a

Managers say figures show that is very little

There were an average around ten individuals

attending that unit on a

Half of which could have been dealt with by planned care

because they were repeat visits or a wound dressings.

Some could also be best served by telephoning for

advice before they actually left their own home.

Many residents who turned up for today's meeting complained

that the 12 week public consultation period had

People were led toward something they

didn't really want in order to fill in a questionnaire, which is a

We didn't stand a chance in Hornsea and I am absolutely

disgusted, not only with the board had with my own local MP.

Campaigners say they are determined to fight on despite today's

Health managers say they are going to spend the next few

weeks and months fine tuning their plans with regard to the minor

injury unit and the urgent care centres before they've introduced

Dr Richard Vautry is from the British Medical Association.

I asked him if these latest NHS decisions in East Yorkshire

Unfortunately it is a reflection of the crisis facing the NHS are right

around the country. All too many units are being reviewed and in some

cases closed because we're investing enough resources in the NHS and are

not enough staff in the NHS to make many say. But if you only have ten

people a day going, sad though it is for these rural areas is not better

to have three big centres? There is a real challenge in rural areas to

provide good service for a very specialised and major incidents

where we're going to a major centre is important, but for those in rural

communities they don't want to travel an hour. To go somewhere

where they are to get good treatment locally. People of written to me the

last two days saying we might live in a rural area but we pay our taxes

as well but we are losing services. It is not fair. I would recognise

that and I writer and accountable recogniser difficult it is now to

maintain services, particularly in rural areas. GPs and those working

in hospitals want to provide the best service to their patients and

it have to do it with the available resources they have. We hear the

Government of putting recondite amounts of money into the NHS. If

that is the case wire services closing? The investment the

Government is making in the NHS does not keep pace with the increase in

the population and also the increased need of many people who

are living longer and live more with complex problems and to need more

intervention and support from the NHS was investment is going up it is

not going up anywhere near enough to meet the need of our population.

Prepared tester said it will take is to the Secretary of State. -- the

protesters said they were taken to the Secretary of State. The

Secretary of State is too often deftly these appeals. We need

Government to list not just to these protesters but everyone. -- too

often deaf to these appeals. Elsewhere, council leaders say

they have "serious concerns" about major changes planned

for Lincolnshire's hospitals. As part of a five-year plan

set out by NHS bosses, Grantham's A could be downgraded

and some maternity services merged. Lincolnshire County Council has

responded, saying it's concerned the plans will not improve

services for everyone. Managers say no decisions

have been made. A 30-year-old man has been arrested

after a third person was robbed in their home in

Gainsborough. at a house on South Street

in Morton last night. It comes a day after two other

incidents where pensioners Staff from Northern Rail

will stage another day There was disruption last Monday

as workers walked out in a row over The RMT Union has announced

another day of action Northern, which runs services

from Hull, Bridlington and Lincoln, A detention centre for immigrants

in Lincolnshire has been criticised for high levels of violence both

against residents Drug taking and arson were also

found to be a problem at Morton Hall which houses hundreds

of men awaiting deportation. Our reporter Laura Foster

is outside the prison tonight. Laura, has this level

of disruption happened before? In the past Morton Hall has been

the scene of protests and unrest But following the inspection

November we know that it is a more violent place.

Peter Clarke is their Chief Inspector:

What we found is that levels of violence

Action needs to be taken to reduce it.

There's a lot of frustration on the part of

people who are being detained at Morton Hall.

And frustration stems quite largely from the fact that

they simply don't know what's going to happen to them or how

Up until 2011 Morton Hall had been a prison and with its high fences

They are either waiting for a decision on their

asylum claim or are due to be deported.

Many have been here a long time and are finding it very

Inspectors say the centre is generally work generally

well-run and that it is working well to prepare detainees for the removal

But they say Morton Hall has become significantly less safe since their

38% of detainees say they feel unsafe.

The previous six months there had been 38 assaults by

one detainee on another and 11 on staff.

On 16 occasions detainees started fires in

Since the last inspection the profile of detainees here has

50% are no ex-prisoners and staff have suggested this is what

The staff say that is no evidence to support this and that other

centres have seen similar changes in

In a statement the Home Office said:- Strategies to reduce

incidents of violence and self-harm, and to reduce use of psychoactive

substances are already in place and will be kept

An action plan is being implemented following the support and staff will

be working harder to make things safer for detainees and themselves

as well. In tonight's National

League football, Lincoln City lost 2-0

at Boreham Wood, and North Ferriby An unsettled day of weather to come

largely dominated by low pressure. Pressure will start a bolt

through Thursday meaning a nice To this evening, variable

amounts of cloud and some Some showers as well and maybe some

a little heavier and persistent for western

parts of East Yorkshire. Those overnight temperatures

will drop down into single figures and we could see

a touch of ground frost first thing tomorrow morning but it should be

a largely dry start to the day. A nice bright start

as well but we will quickly see some rain arriving

from the South West and think it quickly see some rain arriving

from the South West and think it It will be heavy attended

by persistent with temperatures up at about nine

or maybe 10 Celsius. gradually improve through Friday and

the weekend isn't looking bad. Heavy rain, snow and ice are all in

the forecast once again. It was quite a wintry scene today,

especially in Scotland. Some very cold looking winter skies here, and

we had some snow falling at times in West Lothian. For a while earlier

today, there were quite a few showers running through central

Scotland, all in that cold air. Right now, we have two areas of

cloud, one in northern Scotland and this deepening area bringing heavy

rain into