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Western General Hospital considers restricting access to A during | :00:11. | :00:23. | |
certain hours but the trust insists it is not to save money. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
A new report claimed there was a serious failure of leadership at | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
Bristol City Council. And they call the team continues | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
tomorrow. It looks mostly cloudy. A few snow flurries, details at the | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
end of the programme. While record numbers of people | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
are waiting hours in Accident and Emergency departments | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
across England, it's emerged Weston General | :00:47. | :00:47. | |
is considering reducing It could mean 999 patients | :00:48. | :00:48. | |
being diverted elsewhere. The hospital says the proposed | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
changes aren't about saving money, despite them being ?7 | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
million over budget. The hospital has 320 beds, 200 and | :00:59. | :01:19. | |
-- 24-hour Accident and Emergency as well as a small intensive care unit | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
but money is tight and it struggles but money is tight and it struggles | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
to fill vacant medical roles. The hill fog trust described as being | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
clinically and financially clinically and financially | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
unsustainable for over a decade. -- the health trust. It has a budget | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
deficit of ?7.1 million and changes to the weird runs on the table. What | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
we need to do is work out how can create a hospital that has got a | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
long-term future that will help attract new staff who will come and | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
want to stay here permanently. And also by working together with other | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
organisations, both in the community but also the other hospitals, just | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
look at how we can address the financial challenges. One of the | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
changes could be to A here. Diverting 999 ambulances elsewhere | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
at night time, keeping the department open for walk-in patients | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
and scheduled ambulances. That would mean longer journeys for emergency | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
patients during those hours but the hospital says the proposals would be | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
to improve patient care, not to save money. The ideas being put forward | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
in this engagement exercise are really focusing on the rights, | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
services for patients, the rights, right ability to staff those | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
properly and the right clinical services. The hospital is very | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
important for those living nearby. The older generation don't always | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
want to go up to Bristol and I think it does everything that we need down | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
here. The NT if it is needed, it is the 24 hours a day if you need it. | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
Yes, it is pretty important to the community. Something that you will | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
need during your lifetime and getting older, it is nice to know it | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
is there. The public can see the proposals and have their say on the | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
North Somerset Clinical Commissioning Groups website, and | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
there will be open days awkward, organised over the next eight weeks | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
so that -- organised over the next eight weeks so people can get their | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
appointment face-to-face. Other NHS trusts are also on the | :03:11. | :03:22. | |
red. North Bristol has a projected deficit of ?46 million to the end of | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
March. -- projected. Onto some other news tonight. MPs | :03:25. | :03:41. | |
have released footage of a man being abducted from a bar in Bristol to | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
try to find witnesses. It happened in December. The 22-year-old was | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
dragged across the floor at the Blue Laguna on Gloucester Road, assaulted | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
and put into a car. He was driven to Bradley Stoke before escaping. Two | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
men have been arrested and released on bail. | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
An independent report has made scathing criticisms of the way | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Bristol City Council's finances a big one. Adults of members being | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
misled and a serious failure of leadership recent years. It was | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
commissioned by the new mayor, who is grappling to make ?100 million in | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
savings. Our political editor reports. | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
This report says senior managers knew that planned savings were not | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
being achieved, but routinely being achieved, but routinely | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
concealed it. Breaking the bad news to Bristol, the mayor faced the | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
media as the council released the damning report. An independent | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
experts said a big savings programme had failed. Officials made | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
assumptions that were false or awful. The mayor was not alerted, | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
councillors were undoubtedly misled. It was, he said, a serious | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
collective failure of leadership within the Council, for which | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
several people, including elected politicians, there responsibility. | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
The suggestions in the report about how and why things happened where a | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
pretty explosive. Not only in terms of the absolute steal, but in terms | :05:05. | :05:13. | |
of the way it was done. -- the size. We are not happy with this at all. A | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
former GQ -- Chief Executive worked alongside the last mayor and has | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
been unavailable for comment. The former mayor issued a statement | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
saying he only heard about the review yesterday afternoon... | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
The counsellor he had in charge of Bristol's finances does express | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
regret and feels let down by officers. I end up feeling that I | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
have totally inadvertently misled councillors because I was being told | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
certain things were true when they were not. It does say there was a | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
failure of political leadership, that would include you. It would. | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
We... We did fail and the sense that we have this vast deficit. The | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
senior managers criticised in the report are gone, leaving councillors | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
shaken. Like a lot of people, when I read the report is pretty shocking | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
in places. The simple fact that this was hidden for several months and | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
actively hidden, it was not just a simple matter of people not | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
realising, they did know it was there and they did not share that | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
with councillors. The catalogue of failing to blame in this report have | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
sent shock waves through City Hall. A new chief executive and a new head | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
of finance are in post. The focus now is on putting things right and | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
of making ?100 million worth of savings over the next four years. | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
And brittle -- Bristol City Council said tonight that the report was | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
funded by an external grant and not from the council's offers. | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
As we revealed yesterday, Bristol is vying to be a national | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
The city wants a share of a billion pound fund to make it happen. | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
5G promises ultra-fast, ultra-reliable phone signal | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
It's set to revolutionise our homes and our streets as Robin Markwell | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
On the mean streets of the University of the West of England, | :07:05. | :07:18. | |
they have clocked up 500 miles in a car without a driver. It relies on | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
high-tech sensors to find its way around. Instant connection is | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
crucial, you cannot be buffering when cruising at 70 mph. They are | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
not quite ready for passengers yet but there is something more suitable | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
in sight. For a glimpse into our 5G future, I thought I would take a | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
little thin. At the moment, I am in charge of this simulator, but | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
flicked a switch and the computer takes control. It is slightly | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
disconcerting! Well, actually 5G is key. It is going to be key for | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
designing vehicles capable of driving probably ten times better | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
than a human driver. It was tough to hear. Instant reaction times, no | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
blindspot and the ability to see around corners. Now scientists think | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
robotic car will soon have the upper hand over on humans. Something that | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
brings together industry and all the different... Talk to another | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
visionary and you find the genes will not just be happening on our | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
roads. People are getting used to the idea that their homes are | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
becoming smarter. The poor are already controlling things like | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
thermostats, central heating, curtains, TVs. This idea of homes | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
having a brain that is collecting together lots of different data and | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
information, that older finds the way that telecoms need to operate. I | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
think we will see increasingly this idea of objects and devices that are | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
talking to the network all the time. It was time to look at the bigger | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
picture. With so many devices generating so much data, it was hard | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
to see how you could make sense of it all. I found my answer inside | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
Bristol's date at all. -- data though. Here's they sure what it all | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
means when everything is pooled together, Real Time Information | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
about the traffic on our roads, the quality of air, the health of the | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
population. It all promises a better understanding of who we are. But | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
with technology now moving quite so fast, some will fear this brave new | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
world risks spinning out of control. A cheery thought to leave you with! | :09:29. | :09:39. | |
That is it from us tonight. We are back with breakfast tomorrow from | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
half past six but from now, good night and I will leave you with the | :09:44. | :09:44. | |
weather forecast. Thank you very much. Good evening, | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
everybody. The underlay for the forecast has been run through | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
tomorrow and into the weekend will remain cold conditions that we have | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
seen today. Tomorrow, if anything, that it cold feeling because the | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
wind will be a little brisker. Certainly a lot of cloud around and | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
we will start to introduce a higher risk of seeing some light wintry | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
slurry is starting to a pure from the East, North East. Some of you | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
have seen a few of those during today, particularly in parts of | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
Gloucestershire. Expecting tonight to be dry. In a few sports, below | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
freezing. Into tomorrow, another markedly cold day. Exacerbated by | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
the fact the Bristol have picked up a bit and equally there will not be | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
much in the way of any brightness of note. I notice in the graphics the | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
signal for one or two wintry flurries to be running across from | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
the East, North East. If anything, the risk of those will increase | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
through the day and date overnight into Saturday. We might see some | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
heavy snow showers in some areas at least through that period. | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
Temperatures tomorrow broadly in a range of two to four. In the wind | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
chills, -- in the winter chill, pretty cold wherever you happen to | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
be. There will be showers around for some on Saturday. A wintry mix many | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
places. sleet and snow. The outlook, Sunday | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
will turn a bit less cold again. All the way up seven Celsius. | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
At this time of year we can often get the weather stories that reflect | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
the battle between winter and spring, and that's what's been | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
happening in New York in the USA. Yesterday, 17 Celsius, but today, | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
it's been bitterly cold, just a daytime maximum of -2, a | :11:27. | :11:28. |