:00:05. > :00:08.Look North. On tonight's programme: Is a shortage of nurses putting
:00:08. > :00:16.lives at risk? That's the claim as it emerges there's been a
:00:16. > :00:24.significant reduction in the number of district nurses in Yorkshire.
:00:24. > :00:34.drop in this trick -- district nurses' numbers represents a drop in
:00:34. > :00:39.
:00:39. > :00:43.Also tonight: using exercise as therapy. Football for mind and body
:00:43. > :00:47.- we meet the woman who thinks sport can make a difference to our mental
:00:47. > :00:50.health. And the ring which can open doors and even control a mobile
:00:50. > :00:53.phone - it's not science fiction but a real-life invention by a man from
:00:53. > :01:03.Bradford. And it has been a largely dry day
:01:03. > :01:12.
:01:12. > :01:16.today, but it could be a little us. It's being claimed that lives
:01:16. > :01:19.are being put at risk because of a shortage of district nurses in
:01:19. > :01:22.Yorkshire. Figures obtained by Look North show there's been a 38%
:01:22. > :01:25.percent reduction in the number of district nurses working in our
:01:25. > :01:28.region. The union Unison says it means hundreds of patients are going
:01:28. > :01:31.without the care they need, and often missing vital blood tests.
:01:31. > :01:35.Doctors say that's adding to the pressure on hospitals, in particular
:01:35. > :01:44.the already struggling accident and emergency departments. Ian White is
:01:44. > :01:47.here with more on this. Yes, Nicola. In its own words, the NHS describes
:01:47. > :01:50.district nurses as playing a vital role in keeping hospital admissions
:01:50. > :01:53.and readmissions to a minimum. They visit patients in their homes,
:01:53. > :01:56.providing care such as changing dressings, giving drugs and taking
:01:56. > :02:06.blood samples. A recent BBC documentary followed the work of one
:02:06. > :02:11.
:02:11. > :02:16.district nurse, Dot, on her rounds increased, and there are more
:02:16. > :02:26.complex needs in the community. The time that we need to spend with each
:02:26. > :02:26.
:02:26. > :02:32.patient is longer. A lot of patience are elderly, -- a lot of patients.
:02:32. > :02:34.It is important that we don't just support them, but the families as
:02:34. > :02:38.well. Figures obtained by Look North show
:02:38. > :02:41.the stress professionals like Dot are under. A headcount from a body
:02:41. > :02:44.which monitors NHS services found that in 2008 there were 892 district
:02:44. > :02:52.nurses working in the Yorkshire and Humber region. But by 2012, that
:02:52. > :03:02.figure had fallen to just 551. That's a reduction of 38%. Now the
:03:02. > :03:05.
:03:05. > :03:10.union Unison says lives are being blood tests a week are not being
:03:10. > :03:15.performed. This is very serious, because people with long-term
:03:15. > :03:20.chronic conditions need to have their blood regularly monitored to
:03:20. > :03:23.make sure there are no serious health risks.
:03:23. > :03:30.Doctors also say they're concerned the district nurse service is under
:03:30. > :03:35.such great pressure, it's affecting other NHS services. If district
:03:35. > :03:39.nurses struggle to meet the needs of patience, that might have an impact
:03:39. > :03:44.on accident and emergency. What we need is a real investment in the
:03:44. > :03:47.community as a whole, so that patience -- patients can be
:03:47. > :03:54.supported where they want to be, which is at home with their
:03:54. > :03:57.One Yorkshire NHS Trust has admitted it's struggled to fill vacancies in
:03:57. > :04:01.recent years and has been waiting for extra funding to increase the
:04:01. > :04:05.numbers. It has been a challenge over the last number of years, the
:04:05. > :04:10.problem being that fewer nurses are applying to go on the district
:04:10. > :04:16.nursing course, so fewer district nurses are coming out. In Leeds we
:04:16. > :04:20.have continued to support our staff nurses to undertake the district
:04:21. > :04:26.nursing court. We asked the Department of Health for an
:04:26. > :04:29.interview. There was no one available. But they did say that it
:04:29. > :04:32.was important that there were enough nurses to provide the services that
:04:32. > :04:36.they showed. So, what lies at the root of this
:04:36. > :04:39.problem, and what can be done to sort it out? In our Sheffield studio
:04:39. > :04:43.to help us answer that is Labour's Rother Valley MP Kevin Barron, who
:04:43. > :04:49.chaired the House of Commons select committee on health until 2010. Good
:04:49. > :04:55.evening. This is not a new problem. The numbers of district nurses have
:04:55. > :04:59.been declining for ten years. Is it down to training? It is partly down
:04:59. > :05:03.to training and partly down to structure. All the time we talk
:05:03. > :05:08.about the National Health Service, it is dominated by the issue of
:05:08. > :05:12.hospitals and surgery, not patient needs. It was pointed out in that
:05:12. > :05:18.clip that many patients are the ones with long-term conditions that needs
:05:18. > :05:21.district nurses. This is where we spend 70% of our money in the
:05:21. > :05:25.national health service, and we cannot neglect what is happening in
:05:25. > :05:29.the community with these people. Inevitably they will be going into
:05:29. > :05:35.the acute sector if we do, and they will be on award costing us enormous
:05:35. > :05:40.amounts of money. And we are seeing that, but the vacancies are there
:05:40. > :05:44.locally, but it is not an attractive career? Then we need to make it an
:05:44. > :05:49.attractive career. Many people would want to be the top person in any
:05:49. > :05:54.position in life. We need to address this issue, and we need real joined
:05:54. > :05:57.up care for patients at the moment. There is still an issue where the
:05:57. > :06:01.primary care sector and the secondary sector, there is this void
:06:01. > :06:08.between them, and it has got to change. It is the only way we'll
:06:09. > :06:13.will be able to manage the future, with a number of people living into
:06:13. > :06:17.their 80s, 90s and hundreds phenomenally different to 50 years
:06:17. > :06:23.ago. We need to make sure that the service is changed to meet that
:06:23. > :06:28.demand. What do you think the Coalition Government can do, then?
:06:28. > :06:33.would like to say that I wish they hadn't tried to change the National
:06:33. > :06:36.Health Service in the way that they had. We don't need to have massive
:06:36. > :06:44.top and changes in the National Health Service. We need to
:06:44. > :06:49.concentrate on patients and patients' needs. Patients in the
:06:49. > :06:53.primary sector who need looking after have ended up going to
:06:53. > :06:58.accident and emergency, and it is a massive waste of public money. We
:06:58. > :07:02.need to shape up the needs of patients, and putting the care
:07:02. > :07:07.package around them, whether in the acute sector or the primary sector,
:07:08. > :07:12.and making sure that happens. We need to stop this division between
:07:12. > :07:16.primary care and the hospital sector. Kevin Barron, MP, thank you.
:07:16. > :07:19.Also tonight: The family of the missing Sheffield teenager Erika
:07:19. > :07:22.Kacicova have told Look North of their relief at knowing their
:07:22. > :07:26.daughter's safe. The 13-year-old vanished from the Darnall area of
:07:26. > :07:32.the city on Monday of last week. But last night she was found apparently
:07:32. > :07:42.safe and well in Bradford City Centre. Three people are being held
:07:42. > :07:52.Kate Bradbrook reports. On suspicion of child abduction. I would like to
:07:52. > :07:56.
:07:56. > :08:00.deliver the news today that we have found Erika. Erika had been missing
:08:00. > :08:05.for exactly a week, and the police operation to find her was described
:08:05. > :08:12.as critical. Searches had been carried out at several properties in
:08:12. > :08:22.Bradford, and at around 6:40pm, she was found alone in the city centre.
:08:22. > :08:23.
:08:23. > :08:32.We are very happy she is coming back. I thank you very much for
:08:32. > :08:42.everybody at the police station for their help. I am very happy. I
:08:42. > :08:42.
:08:42. > :08:48.wanted them to find Erika. She also told me, with the help of
:08:48. > :08:52.her daughter, that she feared Erika may be dead. It is not yet known
:08:52. > :08:56.when Erika will be reunited with her family, or what happened to her in
:08:56. > :09:00.the seven days she was missing. Six people in total have been arrested
:09:00. > :09:10.on suspicion of child abduction. Three of those have since been
:09:10. > :09:10.
:09:10. > :09:13.Later on Look North: Mental fitness through football. We speak to the
:09:13. > :09:22.former professional footballer who's set up a football league for players
:09:22. > :09:24.Some news in brief now, and a man's appeared before magistrates in
:09:24. > :09:29.Sheffield charged with gross negligence manslaughter following
:09:29. > :09:32.the death of a toddler who fell from a balcony. 44-year-old Robert Warner
:09:32. > :09:35.was contracted to carry out maintenance on apartments in the
:09:35. > :09:39.Wicker where Rayaheen Banimuslim fell from the fourth floor while
:09:40. > :09:49.playing. The case has been referred up to the Crown Court for a hearing
:09:50. > :09:54.
:09:54. > :09:57.later this month. Protests have taken place at railway stations in
:09:57. > :10:00.York and Doncaster to demonstrate against fare increases. The TUC's
:10:00. > :10:03.warning that fares look set to rise by 40% since 2008. That's nearly
:10:03. > :10:06.three times faster than wages. Ticket prices are linked to
:10:06. > :10:08.inflation figures, which are out today. The union's Action for Rail
:10:08. > :10:16.campaigners are staging demos at mainline stations around the
:10:16. > :10:20.country, calling for MPs to return the railways to public ownership.
:10:20. > :10:26.don't think people realise what a bad deal we get in Yorkshire as far
:10:27. > :10:31.as subsidy towards travel. We will see on the news how badly he put in
:10:31. > :10:35.London are being hit, but their travel is subsidised far greater
:10:35. > :10:39.than the people in Yorkshire. There's a proposal to create a
:10:39. > :10:42.direct rail link between York and Paris, connecting the two cities in
:10:42. > :10:45.super-fast time, or so it's claimed. City of York council representatives
:10:45. > :10:48.have been holding talks with other councils along the East Coast Main
:10:48. > :10:56.Line. They're discussing the possibility of allowing
:10:56. > :10:59.international rail firms to use the line. The plans are still in the
:10:59. > :11:06.early stages, but if they go ahead, it's estimated the journey could
:11:06. > :11:10.take four and a half hours. That would be truly quite extraordinary.
:11:10. > :11:16.And a little bit pointless, because can't you do it anyway? How long
:11:16. > :11:23.does it take normally? It is not the first time those
:11:23. > :11:26.high-speed Eurotunnel trains have been a very special day for a
:11:26. > :11:33.Huddersfield man who's spent eight years building a boat in his back
:11:33. > :11:36.garden. All fellows like a bit of tinkering in the garden. Today the
:11:36. > :11:39.six-ton vessel has finally been transported to the marina at Goole.
:11:39. > :11:43.Bricklayer Winston Walker managed to construct the boat himself in the
:11:43. > :11:52.yard outside his terraced home. He's named it Norma after his mother.
:11:52. > :11:58.Winston says it's been a labour of love which has taken over his life.
:11:58. > :12:05.Every available hour over the last eight years, I have worked on it. I
:12:05. > :12:09.have been out even in the rain and the wind. I could have done it in 12
:12:09. > :12:16.months if it were in a shared. I still can't believe I have done it,
:12:16. > :12:19.one bit at a time. Good old Winston! Very impressive.
:12:19. > :12:23.The recent news that many birds, insects and plants in the UK are
:12:23. > :12:26.struggling because of changes to their habitat has worried experts. A
:12:26. > :12:29.survey found that 60% of the species examined have declined since the
:12:29. > :12:33.1970s. Intensive farming, the loss of meadows and growing use of
:12:33. > :12:37.pesticides were all found to be part of the problem. Jenny Hill has been
:12:37. > :12:47.to a farm in Kellfield near Selby to see what farmers are doing to
:12:47. > :12:50.
:12:50. > :12:56.On this farm, every creature counts. Here, they nurture the countryside
:12:56. > :13:03.as carefully as the crop. It is why Farmer Richard has put up nearly 70
:13:03. > :13:11.bird and bat boxes, and grown hundreds of metres of hedgerow. The
:13:11. > :13:16.result, this farm teams with wildlife. We all recognised that the
:13:16. > :13:20.impact that man is having on the planet is significant. And what we
:13:20. > :13:24.have to do in a sustainable way is to make sure that we can not only
:13:24. > :13:29.deliver on our food needs and production of raw materials, but
:13:29. > :13:34.also we can deliver on conservation needs, as well. I think we can do
:13:34. > :13:38.that if we get to understand the best ways to integrate conservation
:13:38. > :13:42.management alongside food production. Which is why here there
:13:42. > :13:47.is no such thing as spare land. These may look like wild meadows,
:13:47. > :13:53.but from a butterfly perspective, this is a well-stocked larder and a
:13:53. > :14:00.slap up meal for bees and birds. And here is why this patch of land is so
:14:00. > :14:04.important. Farmland accounts for 75% of the UK, and a recent major study
:14:04. > :14:09.found that since the 1970s, the number of words on land like this
:14:09. > :14:14.has halved. The same study revealed that
:14:14. > :14:20.farmland butterfly numbers have declined by one third. And one in
:14:20. > :14:25.ten species of British wildlife is threatened with extinction. Many
:14:25. > :14:29.farmers are paid to safeguard their environment. 70% of UK farmland is
:14:29. > :14:33.looked after in this way. But campaigners say that is not enough.
:14:33. > :14:39.They now hope livestock farmers can reverse the decline in British
:14:39. > :14:44.wildlife. Back on Richard's farm, this field is not needed for a few
:14:44. > :14:49.months, so he has planted seeds to feed winter wildlife. In turn, they
:14:49. > :14:53.will help fertilise the soil. The needs of the farmed and natural
:14:53. > :14:57.environment so often go hand in hand, he says, and that is the key
:14:57. > :14:59.to sustaining both for the future. If you want to get out and explore
:14:59. > :15:09.the wildlife near you, click onto bbc.co.uk.summerofwildlife to get
:15:09. > :15:11.
:15:11. > :15:21.which can open doors and control mobile phones - meet the man from
:15:21. > :15:28.
:15:28. > :15:35.Bradford whose ring can talk to Yorkshire are in action against the
:15:35. > :15:45.Unicorns at Headingley in the 40-over form of the game. Yorkshire
:15:45. > :15:54.
:15:54. > :15:57.Mental illness will affect one in four of us at some point in our
:15:57. > :16:00.lives. Right now in Yorkshire, 96,000 people are suffering from it.
:16:00. > :16:03.8,000 will need hospital treatment. So anything that prevents it or
:16:03. > :16:12.helps recovery has got to be welcome. In a moment we're going to
:16:12. > :16:15.hear from Janette Hynes and Daryle Pearson. They believe sport can
:16:15. > :16:20.genuinely make a difference to mental health, and their approach is
:16:20. > :16:27.explored in a TV documentary being aired tonight. Here's a taste of it.
:16:27. > :16:32.These three young people suffer from severe mental illness. When I go to
:16:32. > :16:37.bed at night, I think, I have another day to get through. But they
:16:37. > :16:45.are about to start an extraordinary new kind of therapy. Football League
:16:45. > :16:49.Show where everyone has mental health problems. But how do you make
:16:49. > :16:55.it to training when you are locked up in a secure hospital? They are
:16:55. > :17:02.not allowed off the ward. Will they be able to cope with losing? I don't
:17:02. > :17:06.want to hear any of it. It is about being positive. Charity founder
:17:06. > :17:11.Janette has worked in mental health for 11 years. Show me your shape,
:17:11. > :17:15.captain. She believes that recovering from mental illness is as
:17:16. > :17:19.much about doing something you love is taking medication. Over the next
:17:19. > :17:29.12 months, they will find out if football can change their lives for
:17:29. > :17:30.
:17:30. > :17:33.league for people with mental illness. It's called Positive Mental
:17:33. > :17:42.Attitude. And Daryle Pearson suffered from mental health problems
:17:42. > :17:47.and is now a coach and mentor for the charity. What do you think this
:17:47. > :17:55.will do to help people getting out and playing sport? I think it is
:17:56. > :18:01.really important for the social aspect. That social, and feeling as
:18:01. > :18:06.though there is a purpose in life, setting goals and achieving them.
:18:06. > :18:11.Why did you get involved? Because there was a need. Just seeing the
:18:11. > :18:15.revolving door, people going through the same system within the NHS or
:18:15. > :18:19.day centres, and there has to be a meaningful reason the pupils have
:18:19. > :18:23.like we have in our normal life. They have gone through a terrible
:18:23. > :18:32.time, but let's find who the real person is a game, and that is what
:18:32. > :18:38.we do. Daryle, you spent seven years in hospital with psychosis,
:18:38. > :18:47.paranoia. What difference has this made? My confidence have improved
:18:47. > :18:53.loads, and my football skills. I think without Janette's help, I
:18:53. > :18:58.wouldn't be where I am today. is not just about sport. It is about
:18:58. > :19:08.adding structure and routine to your life. Definitely.Mental health is a
:19:08. > :19:09.
:19:09. > :19:17.big to boo. People don't like to talk about some of these issues. --
:19:17. > :19:22.a big taboo. Yes, we need to remember that people are a human
:19:22. > :19:28.being first, and we can get them back on track. Get their confidence
:19:28. > :19:32.up, get them out there and say, yes you can set goals and achieve them.
:19:32. > :19:39.It has been a fairly London centric project until now, but we have the
:19:39. > :19:44.Wakefield Pumas, and we hope that that will bring the initiative to
:19:44. > :19:51.Yorkshire. I want to set up an academy up here as well, but we need
:19:51. > :20:01.funds. We have a couple of million people here in West Yorkshire alone,
:20:01. > :20:03.
:20:03. > :20:12.if you just say 100,000, one cup of cough a -- one cup of coffee, that
:20:12. > :20:16.could set up the academy for a year. People watching might think that
:20:16. > :20:22.they are suffering too. Do you think something like this could point them
:20:22. > :20:28.in the right direction if they think they are suffering? I am proof it
:20:28. > :20:32.works, in a sense, so yes. And we know the demand is there. You have
:20:32. > :20:37.weekly training sessions, and they are fully subscribed, see you just
:20:37. > :20:39.need the funding? Yes, and they are getting younger by the minute. We
:20:39. > :20:49.are getting younger by the minute. We're getting 16-year-olds coming
:20:49. > :20:51.
:20:51. > :20:53.through. We need to prevent it. you can see that programme Football,
:20:53. > :20:57.Madness and Me tonight at 9.00 on BBC Three.
:20:57. > :21:00.Now, how's this for something straight out of a James Bond film -
:21:00. > :21:04.a ring which can unlock doors, transfer data and even use mobile
:21:04. > :21:06.phones? And it's been invented by a man from Bradford. Here it is. The
:21:06. > :21:09.ring uses near field communication to communicate with electronic
:21:09. > :21:12.devices. Inventor John McLear is overseeing production in China.
:21:12. > :21:16.We'll be talking to him in a minute. But first, our reporter Spencer
:21:16. > :21:19.Stokes has been to his home in Bradford to find out more.
:21:19. > :21:26.It is the sort of gadget you might expect to find being used in
:21:26. > :21:34.California's silicon valley. But this cottage overlooking Bradford's
:21:34. > :21:37.Valley is the replacement for a ring -- traditional locks and keys.
:21:37. > :21:42.Whilst the inventor is promoting it in China, his father is having a
:21:42. > :21:48.play. These things are fantastic. I don't
:21:48. > :21:52.have to fumble around and find Mikey, it is on my hand.
:21:52. > :21:58.But the ring will do more than just open doors. It is already unlocking
:21:58. > :22:02.phones, and it can store information as well. It was in the dining room
:22:02. > :22:07.here that this remarkable piece of technology was developed, and it is
:22:07. > :22:12.a ring of two halves. It has two chips in it, one containing public
:22:12. > :22:16.information that you might want to pass to other people. The other side
:22:16. > :22:20.has the private information that lets you get into the house, or in
:22:20. > :22:26.the future, even start your car engine. Despite the surroundings,
:22:26. > :22:29.this is more than just a cottage industry. The inventor is in China
:22:29. > :22:35.supervising production of thousands of rings, while his girlfriend is
:22:35. > :22:40.handling the growing interest at home. It is very exciting. I think
:22:40. > :22:44.as soon as he gets back, that will be it. They will be producing
:22:44. > :22:48.thousands of them and sending them all over the world. At the moment,
:22:48. > :22:53.we have it opening the house door, and there is no reason why it
:22:53. > :22:56.couldn't open a car door or be used to start your car, or out there in
:22:56. > :23:02.the ether there will be lots of people with lots of other ideas that
:23:02. > :23:07.could take something like this and use it to do other things. In a
:23:07. > :23:17.decade, the ring may have become as ubiquitous as the mobile phone. A
:23:17. > :23:22.
:23:22. > :23:25.very 21st-century gadget dreamt up John is currently in China, mainly
:23:25. > :23:32.because he got the backing for his invention through the website kick
:23:33. > :23:39.starter. This is the ring. It looks nice on my finger there. I spoke to
:23:39. > :23:42.the current inventor who is currently in Shenzhen in China and
:23:43. > :23:47.asked him how he got the inspiration for the idea. I was speaking to a
:23:47. > :23:50.bunch of my mates one night, and they said that some nights after a
:23:50. > :23:54.night out they struggled to get in, and elderly members of my family
:23:54. > :23:58.struggled to use the key on their door, so I figured it might make
:23:58. > :24:04.sense to have the ring and the key together so that you can just hold
:24:04. > :24:13.your hand up to the locked access the house. And how did you secure
:24:13. > :24:17.the funding? Kick starter helped us, and we could see that people liked
:24:17. > :24:21.what the ring does, and we liked the design, and we also got a lot of
:24:21. > :24:27.feedback. We have changed the way that some of the rings look and
:24:27. > :24:34.function. It has been really good for us, and we're looking forward to
:24:34. > :24:37.the future. Explain why you are in China at the moment. We're here to
:24:38. > :24:41.oversee production, spending a lot of time with the workers and making
:24:41. > :24:45.some of the rings, getting feedback from the workers about the process
:24:45. > :24:50.in making the rings, and that means we can make their life a little
:24:50. > :24:55.easier, and improve the ring as we spend time with the factories.
:24:55. > :24:58.have learned more about the ring. What is your next invention? We are
:24:58. > :25:02.looking forward to some of the next product within the range that we are
:25:02. > :25:05.working on. We have been in touch with the NHS and a few
:25:05. > :25:10.organisations, so we really want to bring it into health care and start
:25:10. > :25:14.helping people more. I could really do with one of those,
:25:14. > :25:20.because I am quite good at losing everything.
:25:20. > :25:24.They need to be a bit more stylish! I would love to see you will have a
:25:25. > :25:34.cluster of diamonds on your finger! Lets have a little look at the
:25:35. > :25:35.
:25:36. > :25:41.and largely dry. As we go through the rest of the week, it will be a
:25:41. > :25:46.fairly unsettled story. There is some heavy rain in the forecast, and
:25:47. > :25:51.that is courtesy of this area of low pressure. And I usually deep area of
:25:51. > :25:57.low pressure is passing through on Saturday. Some wet weather to come
:25:57. > :26:03.through the weekend, as well. Back to the here and now, we end the day
:26:03. > :26:06.on a fairly decent note. We have got some sunny spells to end the day. As
:26:06. > :26:11.we head through the course of the evening, it looks fine and dry, and
:26:11. > :26:15.it looks like a settled night, too. There could be a little bit of
:26:15. > :26:23.patchy mist and fog developing. These are the values in the towns
:26:23. > :26:33.and cities. It is obviously that bit cooler out in the countryside. The
:26:33. > :26:41.
:26:42. > :26:49.sun will rise in the morning at tomorrow morning after the mist
:26:49. > :26:55.lifts. Most places will stay dry, possibly a little more cloud in the
:26:55. > :27:05.afternoon. Temperatures will be other little on today's values, we
:27:05. > :27:06.
:27:06. > :27:09.will get up to 21 or 22 Celsius. you were outside in your back
:27:09. > :27:13.gardens last night for a rather special display. You have been