09/03/2017 Points West

A plan to ease the strain on the NHS.

A new scheme is up and running to reduce the growing

The artwork celebrating the hope given by organ donation.

Tomorrow bring another mild story. That's effectively where the

similarities end. The details at the end of the programme.

A new scheme to try and prevent so called "bed blocking" is up

The local NHS has paid for places in a care home so dementia patients

who are physically fit can move out of hospital wards.

It will help people like Iris Sibley who was stuck at the BRI

for a record six months because there was no suitable care

Here's our Health Correspondent Matthew Hill.

Hello, Mum. Hello, John!

How are you today? I'm fine.

John Sibley visits his 89-year-old mother Iris every day.

She now lives in a comfortable care home which can cater

But last summer, it was very different.

Declared medically fit to leave the BRI within a month,

yet six months later, she was still there,

It's not until you get caught up in the whole system and situation

that you realise that the system is, in fact, broken.

So to fix it, the local NHS has paid for ten dementia

Patients like Pat Tottle can have their needs assessed

here for up to 28 days, instead of on a hospital ward.

The 83-year-old had to spend two weeks in Southmead

after a fall at home, and with the right support,

Because she'd been in a bed for 13 days, her muscle had all gone.

So she had to have a zimmer frame and she did not

Her coordination was not good with eating.

I feel I'm back at home again. I am not quite there yet, but...

This is very much a home from home with all sorts

of objects lying around to trigger childhood memories.

It's also a lot cheaper than staying in hospital, about ?995 a week.

In hospital, it would be more than twice as much.

The scheme has already saved hundreds of thousands of pounds.

I think this is a really positive start.

There are many more people in hospitals with dementia

than ten beds can solve, but actually, if this project

is rolled out and it is researched thoroughly and we can see that

people's outcomes have improved then it has got to be a good thing.

The man in charge of the BRI, where Iris Sibley had to languish

in bed, says lessons have now been learned.

Any patient who has waited longer than four weeks after they're

meant to be discharged, we're going to have a named

individual in our integrated discharge service who is

We will have an appointment system for care homes so we can see

in a real-time basis where the capacity is in care homes,

what places have been offered, where the bottlenecks are.

Fine. Absolutely fine.

And the sooner patients like her are discharged to more

homely surroundings, the better they will do.

An unannounced inspection of Eastwood Park Women's prison

in Gloucestershire has found growing levels of violence and

There are 400 inmates there, 100 more than at the last

More than 75% of the population reported some form of mental health

problem and there were three suicides last year.

Inspectors did find Eastwood Park to be "well-led"

Tonight the Ministry of Justice said the prison is "committed to learning

lessons from the tragic deaths" and they're currently

Plans for fast, regular trains between Portishead

The cost of upgrading the old freight line for passenger

There's now a slower, compromise option under

consideration as our Political Correspondent

It's badly off track - the projected cost for improving

local lines around Bristol has soared from ?58 to ?175 million.

The extra money can't be found so officials are warning

It's certainly a compromise from what we originally intended,

but unfortunately the cost pressures mean we must reduce the scope

of the project in order to deliver a passenger service.

Called MetroWest Phase 1, it includes upgrades and half hourly

trains for the Severn Beach line as well as to Keynsham

But reopening the Portishead line for passenger services is proving

It's presently used for slow freight trains, but enabling it to take

faster passenger services every half hour is hugely challenging.

This area near Ashton Gate shows how complex public transport

A bridge is being completed to take the city's new Metrobus.

Underneath it runs the line that goes all way to Portishead,

and to take two trains an hour, this level crossing would have to be

To provide a more frequent service, virtually the whole freight track

Just the physical access into the gorge is hugely

Instead, they'll settle for the cheaper option, meaning

Not good news for Portishead residents frustrated

That's not many from Portishead, is it?

It's a shame it is only one an hour, but it is better than nothing.

It sounds very disappointing and I doubt if it will ever be

Reopening it for passengers is a long way down the line.

An art installation celebrating organ donation has been unveiled

at the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.

The heart is made up of 1,000 messages from people who have both

given and been given the gift of life.

Simon was very fun-loving. He adored his children.

He didn't get much time to be a father, unfortunately.

A decade ago Kerry Mills' life changed forever.

Her husband, Simon, went out on his motorbike

Yeah, just devastated. I knew life would never be the same.

At the height of her grief, Kerry made a decision that meant two

I realised that if they were poorly and they needed an organ,

then I know Simon and I would have been so grateful for anyone

who would have given us the opportunity.

For this family, a message in the centre of this

new heart-shaped mural at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital

is a reminder of someone who will always be close

Each of the 1,000 small tags on this memorial

They are messages from organ donors families,

from the recipients of donors, all a lasting reminder of

There are 91 people in Gloucestershire today

Three people die every day in the UK just waiting.

The other messages on the tags are memories of loved ones and thank

33 years ago, I received a heart from a young man that I had no idea

existed and his family generously gave me a constructive life.

This golden heart featuring 1,000 thank yous is an ongoing appeal

for people to keep making that life-saving decision

A security guard had to be rescued from his own van

An engineer helped free the man who had become trapped and police

were called to the Lloyds Bank in Cinderford as a precaution.

The security firm G4S says the safety of their member of staff,

the money and the van were not compromised.

The vehicle has been returned to a depot for checks.

Courtney Cox has been visiting Thornbury castle to trace her roots.

She is a distant relative of the Barkley family. The actress was

given access to manuscripts dating back to the 14th century.

There's more news on the BBC Website and of course on your local

We're back with you in Breakfast tomorrow from 6.25am.

But for now I'll leave you with Ian who has the forecast.

Good evening. Well, let's take you through the expectations for

tomorrow. Today, the West Country was bathed in sunshine, tomorrow we

will be under a veil of cloud. But there maybe pockets of brightness

develop. The cloud could be giving some patchy outbreaks of drizzle.

Like today all of that will be underpinned by a mild story. Through

the rest of tonight, cloud will be steadily tending to thicken up from

the south-west. That's signalling the approach of a warm front.

Temperatures around seven or eight Celsius and by the early hours we

will start to get drizzle feeding into some western and south-western

areas and you will see there from the map how that tends to ease its

way further north-east wards through tomorrow morning and that cloud

tending to lower with it and we will find through the course of the day

that many of you will be under a lot of cloud. So a difference really

compared to today. That said, as I mentioned, there will be area that

may see something brighter, probably in random fashion through the course

of the afternoon. Temperatures tomorrow 11 to 13 Celsius. So there

could be some spots getting higher than that. Certainly if you had the

sun come out anywhere. Saturday, a very similar story. It is looking

dry. Decent enough day. Again a mild one as well. Cooler on Sunday. We

will have periods of rain moving from

day. On Sunday, cloudier, maybe spots of rain.

Good evening, in the spring sunshine we saw temperatures as high as 17.5

Celsius. Not as warm or Sonning on Friday. Still a lot of dry, settled

weather in the forecast for the next few days. This was the sunset

captured by one of our Weather Watchers. Clear skies there. We have

had increasing amounts of cloud moving in from the West. Through the

remainder of tonight we will continue to see that cloud across

the south-west of England, the Channel Isles, weaving in across

Wales, Northern Ireland and western Scotland. Bringing with it some

outbreaks of drizzly rain, particularly around the coast and

the hills. Further east, clear skies and the coldest temperatures. We are

likely to see frost across eastern parts of Scotland by Friday morning.

The west of Scotland will see the cloud moving in, bringing spots of

light, drizzly rain. A similar picture for Northern Ireland. Fairly

cloudy and grey. A bit of hill fog here and there. Into the north of

England as well.