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Plans to restrict hip and knee replacements in Worcestershire | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
to cut cost are described as "alarming". | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
I'm very frustrated and I'm worried. I'm worried that they're going to | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
leave me like this for a lot, lots longer. | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
Hundreds of cannabis plants are found in an industrial-size | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
The RSPB's big garden birdwatch starts this weekend. | :00:26. | :00:42. | |
There are plans to restrict the number of hip and knee | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
The proposal is that unless patients are in enough pain that it | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
stops them sleeping, they won't be considered | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
Our health correspondent Michele Paduano is in | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
Well, this is an unusual situation because across the region people are | :01:00. | :01:19. | |
having to make very difficult decisions and we already know that | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
with a five-year NHS plan going forward there is talk of actually | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
cutting planned operations back 20% but they have hit on what is going | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
on here in Worcestershire. We have been today to see one lady, Susan | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
Morris. She actually started trying to get onto a waiting list about a | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
year ago in January and September because of a severe arthritis she | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
got onto that waiting list for a knee operation but she doesn't know | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
yet when that operation will take place and is clearly extremely | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
distressed by the pain. They just don't seem to understand exactly | :01:53. | :02:00. | |
what the patients go through. I'll go anywhere, I said I will go | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
anywhere to have this operation, I don't even mind going up to Russell | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
hall or somewhere like that, it's just as long as I can get it done. I | :02:09. | :02:17. | |
can't afford to go private so I'm stuck. Well, I am joined now by the | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
chairman of Bromsgrove clinical commissioning group and I had to ask | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
you the question why are you changing the criteria, why are | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
people going to have to suffer more pain before they can get these | :02:29. | :02:37. | |
operations quiz green? The NHS only has a certain amount of money and I | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
don't want patients in pain but we are clear that these are life | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
changing operations and they should take place. We also very clear that | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
in many cases actually if they could lose weight, perhaps we did use | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
physiotherapy, and actually many patients don't need that surgery and | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
I think that is probably the main thing. But you are rationing, aren't | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
you? The Royal College of surgeons said there is no justification. The | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
NHS is in a very, very difficult place at the moment, a certain | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
amount of money can an ageing population, a good thing here in | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
Worcestershire, but we only have a certain amount of money so we have | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
to draw a line somewhere. So what we try to do with the money that we | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
have, we have a statutory responsibility to make sure that the | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
CCG comes in even, that actually we need to do that properly. The other | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
night I thank you. There is going to be a lot of playing clearly for the | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
people and the NHS in the years to come. That occurred a lot of pain. | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
And we've been hearing from you today - | :03:37. | :03:37. | |
if you have a comment on this story to share with us, good and bad, | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
get in touch via Facebook, Twitter, or email. | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
Police have uncovered a large cannabis factory in Staffordshire | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
Our special correspondent Peter Wilson is at the | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
Peter, how did they find out about this? | :03:49. | :03:57. | |
Well, I am in a basement just below some fast food shops right in the | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
centre of Burton upon Trent. And police have discovered more than 800 | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
cannabis plants and as is so often the case with these illegal cannabis | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
factories, the smell is almost overpowering. With me now is Chief | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
Inspector Rob Neeson. Rob, how did your officers discover the place? It | :04:19. | :04:28. | |
is as simple as a member of the public calling us about some | :04:29. | :04:37. | |
suspicious activity with a tractor. There was a tractor? Yes, it is | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
incredible the length these people go to. As I have said they have | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
discovered more than 800 and are going through forensics at the | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
moment and they think the street value could be as much as ?400,000. | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
Everywhere around here, and it bridges right the way around the | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
corner you can see these garlic plants just hanging up here. That's | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
not to mask the smell it in fact to keep bugs away but it certainly | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
hasn't kept the police away. A 25-year-old man from Birmingham | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
has appeared in court charged with murdering a man on a bus | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
on Monday night. 36-year-old Leon Barrett-Hazle | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
from Smethwick was stabbed and killed as he rode on the top | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
deck of the 11A in Handsworth. Kieran Gillespie who lives | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
in Handsworth appeared in court Events are being held | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
across the West Midlands to mark There is a commemoration | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
in Coventry this lunchtime Susi Bechhofer lives in Rugby | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
and survived the holocaust when she and her twin | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
were amongst 10,000 children But her mother, Rosa, | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
was murdered in Auswitz. She says she hopes telling | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
their story will help others. The RSPB's big garden birdwatch | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
starts this weekend. The charity's asking us to record | :06:01. | :06:01. | |
the birds that visit our gardens over the course of an hour, | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
so they can work out which species are doing well, | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
and which ones are struggling. So for some top garden bird-watching | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
tips we sent Environment Correspondent David Gregory-Kumar | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
to meet Springwatch star Kate MacRae, who took | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
these amazing pictures... Last year in the RSPB's Big Garden | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
Birdwatch half a million of us So let's get some tips | :06:22. | :06:32. | |
for this weekend. What are your top tips | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
for how to feed birds, how to get more birds | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
into your garden? Well, I think you have | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
to think of it a bit like a The more different kinds | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
of food you can put out and different kinds of ways you can | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
feed them, then the more different species you're going to | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
attract because not all birds like the same food and not | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
all like feeding in the same way. Kate has spotted over | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
50 different bird species The Midlands gardenwatch top five: | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
sparrow, blue tip, starling, blackbird and wood pigeon have | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
all been caught by her cameras. But she records less | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
common visitors, too, Well, one that is always | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
really exciting to get is the woodpecker, and Great Spotted | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
Woodpeckers were another species that have taken advantage | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
of our changing in the way we feed. And this year the whole | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
event has been extended by a day | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
to cover the Monday as well as the weekend, | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
and that means you don't | :07:30. | :07:30. | |
have to do a whole hour in your garden, | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
you could Garden Birdwatch is our largest | :07:34. | :07:34. | |
citizen science experiment, providing vital information on how | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
all our garden birds are doing. David Gregory-Kumar, | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
BBC Midlands Today, Lichfield. And for more details on how | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
to take part in the garden birdwatch, check out David's | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
blog at bbc.co.uk/davidgregorykumar. Time for the weather | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
now, with Rebecca. Will it be good weather | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
for bird-watching? Still chilly in the centre | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
of Birmingham this lunchtime, although the Chinese New Year | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
celebrations are warming things up. For this weekend a change | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
is on the way - bringing something a little milder, | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
but I'm afraid we will see rain at times through | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
the next couple of days. We've been very settled | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
recently with high pressure controlling our weather - | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
but gradually this weekend low pressure will take charge | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
and with that we will see weather ahead of that cloud will thicken | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
and it will be a wet afternoon - but that should introduce | :08:27. | :08:38. | |
a different, milder airmass so temperatures climbing | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
to six celsius today - With another cold front working | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
in from the west overnight, there will be more rain to come, | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
slowly moving in from the west, that will keep temperatures up | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
to between three and five Celsius. Although it's a wet start | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
to Saturday, that weather front will clear away and there will be | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
sunny spells left behind, but showers will follow | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
on through the afternoon. Temperatures up to eight Celsius, | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
so feeling much different to how For sunday there is still some | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
uncertainty as rain works its way across the south of the country - | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
it could push a little further north or drop a little further south, | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
but it does look like there will be I am off to touch a lion, apparently | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
it is very good luck! Later, if you remember | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
the music of Northern Soul, you're in for a treat | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
in Midlands Today, The FA Cup fourth round, | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
next weekend, across the BBC. It's incredible, the changes that | :09:29. | :10:06. | |
have occurred in just 50 years. Oh, my goodness me, | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
I don't like the look of that. The Robshaws are going back in | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
time again... Feel a little bit | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
overwhelmed at the moment. How people did this every day, | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
I don't know. Calf's head. Leave the teeth | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
out of it, won't you? It's incredible, the changes that | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
have occurred in just 50 years. | :10:25. | :10:29. |