20/10/2016 Look North (North East and Cumbria)


20/10/2016

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There is outrage from a loc`l MP tonight after it was revealdd GPs

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in part of our region are no longer able to refer patients

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Look North's discovered that all GPs across North Durham

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and North Tyneside must now go through a private company bdfore

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The local Clinical Commissioning Groups, which plan health sdrvices,

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say cutting hospital admisshons has already saved ?1 million.

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Our Health Reporter, Sharon Barbour, has this exclusive report.

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After investigations, your GP wants you to see

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But Look North has learned for half a million North East patients,

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the decision as to whether xou can see a range of hospital specialists

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has been taken away from doctors and handed to a private company

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NHS bosses say the the procdss will save money, get patients

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to specialists earlier and reduce hospital admissions.

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Some GPs say it undermines their role.

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This is mainly about money, trying to save money within the national

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Health Service, which is very strapped. But if they reallx need

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treatment within the hospit`l, that's actually what has got to

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happen and certainly within my own practice, and I think the m`jority

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of GPs are the same, we will only refer the patient if we think that

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is the most appropriate way forward, so I don't think there are lany

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inappropriate referrals and I can understand many of my GP fedlings --

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colleagues are feeling that their autonomy and the decision-m`king is

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being undermined or questioned. Durham's MP has called

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for the contact to be stoppdd. It is absolutely disgraceful that

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they have gone ahead with this with no public consultation, without as I

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understand it the approval of GPs, and that is what I would be

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demanding of them today, th`t they put a halt on this until thdre was

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proper consultation and oversight in place and actually, I have to say, I

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really do not want this contract to go ahead because I think it could

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compromise patient safety. The MP says she'll now

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raise questions about North Durham CCG insists

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the contract will help GPs Patients will be

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offered further advice. I wouldn't see it as undermhning. I

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am asking for an opinion from a specialist. If they write b`ck to me

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within three working days and save for this condition, have yot tried

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this medication, I think th`t is better for my patient. We are trying

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to make the NHS work more efficiently. If we can get patients

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to specialists earlier diagnose conditions earlier and manage those

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efficiencies that way and stop efficiencies that way and stop

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hospital admissions. Who will be hospital admissions. Who will be

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accountable if it goes wrong? In that rare incidents it is about

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health who are accountable for that. Yes, there has been a reallx strong

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reaction on Facebook and social media and most are angry about the

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lack of consultation. They want their doctor to make the decision

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about whether or not they sde a hospital consultant and havd a

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hospital appointment. Many `re angry that the company will never see the

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patient when they make that decision to refer or not to refer. Bringing

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in a private company to man`ge these referrals is all about saving money

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and cutting down hospital admissions. We know about the

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financial pressures of the NHS. The Clinical Commissioning Group North

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Tyneside has a deficit of 18 million and North Durham is trying to save 7

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million. They have seen 12,000 referrals and turned down 2000 and

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they have saved ?1 million, so it does save the money, but wh`t they

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have also achieved is they have reduced the hospital referr`l number

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more than anywhere else in Dngland, North Tyneside.

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The words today from the RSPCA after a small dog was buried alive

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And we must warn you that in this screen behind me,

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we're about to show an X-rax image which is shocking.

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I will pause if you want to look away.

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Walkers discovered the dog in Kirkleatham Woods near Rddcar

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yesterday after they heard it whimpering.

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They called the police but ht had to be put down immediately.

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An act of horrific cruelty was how the RSPCA described it.

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A five inch nail hammered through the head of a small dog

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It was only found because a couple of walkers heard the dog whhmpering.

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This instance is deliberate and almost inexplicable cruelty. It s

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probably the most graphic and horrifying incident that I have had

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to deal with in my career. Obviously this dog was found by members of the

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public out walking their dogs and they have said it is somethhng that

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will live with them for ever. The North East Cumbria has one

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of the highest rates of anilal And the Redcar MP Anna Turldy

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is campaiging to change the law so people convicted of thesd

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crimes will recieve The maximum sentence for anhmal

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abuse of any kind was one ydar in prison and that seemed to md totally

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inefficient -- insufficient for the huge scale that is taking place

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around the country of animal abuse. All the statistics show that people

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who abuse animals often go on to abuse humans in life as well.

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Back in Redcar the dog, which it's thought was a Jack Russell

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or a West Highland Terrier, had to be put down after thd attack.

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Because of the force of the attack the RSPCA believes more than one

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person was involved. And it's urging anyone who lay have

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information to get in touch, so it can prosecute those rdponsible

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for this horrifying act of cruelty. Nine people have now been

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arrested over the death Jodie Wilkinson was stabbed

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in Stanhope Street, near Newcastle Those held, are aged

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between 14 and 43. The police say the investig`tion's

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on-going and they are keen to hear Disability groups in Morpeth,

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who'd been campaigning against plans for a shared-space road network

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are celebrating tonight after Northumberland County Council

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decided to scrap the scheme. The controversial proposals

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for the Stobshill area would have meant the removal of all pavements,

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kerbs, and crossings. They don't normally get this

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excited at the meetings of the Northumberland Low Vhsion

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Action Group, but there was a genuine sense

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of relief that this scheme, which they were all dreading,

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has been finally scrapped. For Ace and Trish, and their guide

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dogs Peggy and Beth, I think it is a success for the

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people, a voice for the people. It will be much safer for all guide dog

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uses and everywhere in the country take note. Maybe this will help

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other people in other parts of the country. Someone will benefht from

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our aggravation. It was tratmatic, very difficult time and to have

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people appreciate it will hdlp other people understand and know not to do

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that. Local councilors too welcomdd the

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council's U-turn on Stobhill. I am pleased to see that colmon

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sense has prevailed here on the council has listened to that common

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sense. I agree, I am delighted we put a stop to this waste of

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taxpayers money and stopped a controversial scheme.

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So, relief in Morpeth, but it's left disability groups

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wondering who else is on the list for one of thesd

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The organisers of the successful Bishop Auckland night show Kynren

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have announced next year there will be more performances

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They'll also be taking on htndreds of additional volunteers.

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The outdoor show tells the story of England back

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A series of performances were held this summer

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And a new creative director has started working on the show,

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who's just returned from working on the Olympics.

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This is very similar. It has the same DNA as many of the cerdmonies

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we work on with a volunteer cast, coming from people of all works of

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knife -- walks of life and people who haven't necessarily performed

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before and people who might not think they are dancers and obvious

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things that finding people to figure out how to teach them and hdlp them

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figure their goals. We saw ht in the rave and it was still absolttely

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magnificent but what is a monsoon between friends?

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A bit of summer rain never hurt anybody!

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Autumn showers around today, most of them in the East but most are dying

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away now for a dry picture overnight. Lengthy clear spdlls and

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light winds add up to a fairly chilly night, cold enough for a

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touch of ground frost in parts of Cumbria and that is probablx where

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we will see mist and fog patches for me. Tomorrow it is a chilly start

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but a dry and bright start for most of us and most places should stay

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bone dry. Patches of cloud coming and going, producing the delight

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passing shower. Most of us should stay bone dry and plenty of clear

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sky and sunshine. The best of the sunshine in the afternoon in the

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eastern areas tomorrow, for a change. Highs of 12 or 13, lid- 0s,

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and the wind coming from thd north but fairly light. As we head towards

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the weekend high pressure is established over Scandinavi` and it

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starts to feed in the easterly wind. Fairly light winds will bring in

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some cloud and a few showers from time to time. There will be decent

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spells of dry weather to be had as we head into the weekend. Bdst of

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the brightness probably in the West on Saturday and the risk of the odd

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shower in the east. A simil`r picture Full Sutton day. More

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breezy. Here is the summary. Temperatures up into double figures.

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The outlook, mostly dry for the next few days. Now the national outlook.

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Good evening. We are likely to the all colours of the autumn, tomorrow,

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fog could be

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