06/04/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

Good evening and welcome to the late Look North.

Tonight - we hear from a woman told she's too overweight for surgery

as cash-strapped health authorities delay routine operations.

Brodsworth Hall mounts a war on moths as Doncaster's history

And a fine day to come tomorrow with a cracking

forecast for the weekend. I'll be back later in the programme

with all the details on how long the warmth is going to last.

A woman from North Yorkshire has spoken of her despair

after being told she can't have a hip operation

It comes at a time when the NHS in parts of Yorkshire is facing

a multi-million pound hole in its finances.

In a moment we'll have analysis from Dr Richard Vautrey from the BMA

but first this report from our Health

Living on a farm means Louise Baines is relatively active.

It also means she is in near constant pain.

The 40-year-old has arthritis in her hip and has been told

by a private consultant that it needs replacing, but rules

introduced by the local NHS in Scarborough and Ryedale mean that

patients classified as obese face delays of six months before they'll

be referred for surgery so they can try to lose weight.

I feel like I've just been passed over to one side, I'm just...

I'm not worth repairing, really. I should be enjoying life at 40,

enjoying my family and I can't do that with the pain that I'm in.

An NHS group in North Yorkshire has said it could refuse

Similar policies for routine hip and knee operations hit

the headlines when they were adopted elsewhere in North Yorkshire.

CCGs say introducing criteria around patients who are overweight

or smokers is clinically driven, better for patients and not

a blanket policy, but it has been criticised by some including

the Royal College of Surgeons as an unfair way to save money

There are four clinical commissioning groups

in North Yorkshire and all of them have been forecasting

an end of year deficit, ranging from just over half a million

at Hamilton Richmondshire and Whitby to more than ?28 million

A body that has been placed in special measures by NHS England.

You could say they are lousy managers, you could say

they are poor clinicians but they're not, and they have got

a long-standing problem with finance in North Yorkshire.

There's population movements taking place but I guess underlying

it is some questioning about the formula by which money

is distributed because some are doing quite well

but North Yorkshire is doing quite badly.

There is definitely more and more rationing coming in,

we've seen rationing of drugs, so not just surgery,

and of course this often hits people who have got social and economic

deprivation even more, so you could say the policy

NHS England says it is aware of the deficits being forecast

by the clinical commissioning groups in North Yorkshire and it is

working with them to find long-term solutions.

The changes around surgery are just one small part of much wider plans

being developed by the CCGs to improve their finances,

but the challenges still remain, with populations that are ageing

Louise is now taking part in a weight loss programme but fears

she'll still need an operation when her six-month wait is up.

Joining me now in the studio is Dr Richard Vautrey -

a Leeds GP and vice chair of the British Medical

How concerned are you by the cash-strapped local NHS in North

Yorkshire? It's very concerning and affecting more and more patients.

Unacceptably so. We are supposed to have a National Health Service and

what is happening is we have postcode rationing impacting on

patients unfairly. CCG say it is better for the patient and for

finances to put this rationing in place on people who need to lose

weight and stop smoking. There may be some benefits for people being

fitted to be able to do well after surgery but this is just an excuse.

There are other areas in the country doing exactly the same. The only

reason they are doing this is because of the funding situation.

What needs to happen? There needs to be more money or a change in the way

things happen? This issue affects many parts of the country and

ultimately, as a nation, it's because we're not funding the NHS

enough. We need to invest more in the NHS and social care to solve

this problem. Thank you. A coroner has strongly criticised

the standards of care Albert Pooley, along

with James Metcalfe and Harry Kilvington

died at Sowerby House The coroner said management

at the home was inadequate, but the residents' deaths were not

brought about by gross neglect and concluded

they died of natural causes. The owners of the home

say a new management Mr Pooley's family said they hoped

lessons had been learnt. We are pleased the coroner

has acknowledged that the standard of care afforded

to Albert while he was a resident at

Sowerby House was below the standard We support the ongoing

work identified by the CQC to bring about

the required improvements to prevent similar circumstances arising

for families in future. The latest phase of regeneration

at Park Hills flats in Sheffield With the development

now in its tenth year, the second stage will see

the creation of a further 200 residential properties within

the Grade II listed buildings. Residents and businesses

have the chance to see the plans before a detailed planning

application is submitted. Castleford Tigers are top

of the Super League table tonight They beat the defending

champions 27-10. The first try came from Webster

in the 23rd minute. Gale sealed the win with a goal

at the start of the second half. The Tigers have lost only one

match so far this season. English Heritage is mounting

a campaign to try and stop the destruction of the contents

of our historic Brodsworth Hall near

Doncaster is one of them. The most common culprit

is the case-bearing clothes moth, which is incredibly destructive

and hard to exterminate. Hundreds of years of Doncaster's

history, nibbled, gnawed and ruined. Moths, the clothes moths,

to be exact, are on the increase English Heritage says it has seen

the numbers of the species double at its sites over

the past five years. It is becoming a real problem.

And we're not talking balls either. Moths don't seem to be

affected by the traditional They've been chewing

through our stately homes. Obviously Brodsworth Hall has

an amazing amount of stuff, great stuff, but how much

damage can moths do to it? They can do a phenomenal

amount of damage. It's the larvae stage of the clothes

moth that does the damage. Here, we have got a Blue Peter flag.

The Tennyson family that built Brodsworth Hall were very

involved in yachting. We think this is one

of their yachting flags. You can see the damage that

they've done, absolutely. It's been in store, probably left

in a cupboard for many years And it's when you get close up

you can really see the damage they do and what they leave behind.

I hope you've had your tea. English Heritage manages the moth

problem because it has a really good programme of housekeeping and we do

the monitoring so we know what insect pests are active

at our sites, but with this huge increase in numbers over

the past few years, the threat is becoming bigger,

and we want to understand how They're so worried about moths

here they want to find out how much of a problem it is for us at home,

so if you come to an they'll give a free

clothes moth trap. A bit of cardboard you can

assemble like this. There's a bit of pheromone

inside that attracts the male moth and then

they meet a sticky end. The idea being that over a couple

of months they count the moths they collect from the trap,

but that data onto the website, then English Heritage will collect

that information together, and try to work out why we're seeing

such an increase in moth numbers. They're on top of it at Brodsworth

Hall and the tips for us as home, if you've not got special

Ghostbusters style vacuum cleaner, keep your house tidy.

You've been warned. Keep clean, the moral of that story.

That's the latest news. Now time for a look at the weather

with Keeley Donovan. All this talk of gorgeous weather

but I've been frozen today! Put cardigan on!

Temperature is a little above average for today and on the

weekend, even you will find them more like June or July's. But at

night and first thing in the morning, it will feel quite chilly.

Tomorrow not looking too bad. Over the weekend, much drier air

coming from the south so along with the warmth, it will also have not

much cloud and plenty of sunshine. Not much cloud at night means

temperatures will rapidly drop away. Out there at the moment,

temperatures falling. More cloud over western parts and temperatures

lowest in the east. Like last night, they could drop down to lower than

this down to low single digits, around two or three degrees. Touch

of frost is possible. West- east split. Cloud across the Pennines

should split and break. We should get some dry weather and decent

spells of sunshine. A bit of patchy cloud. Temperatures getting up to

the made teams -- mid-teens. Plenty of sunshine and across the weekend,

south Yorkshire might get up to 21 degrees. Cooler on Monday.

Hello. There was some warm sunshine around today, but it's set to get

even warmer this weekend. 18 Celsius in London this afternoon. This was

the scene in Chiswick, much quieter than it was on Sunday for the boat

race. Under the cloud for example here in Cumbria, temperatures

struggled to make double figures. Through the night we're going to

hang onto a lot of cloud across north-west England, North Wales,

Northern Ireland and western Scotland, where there will be a bit

of drizzle on the