And it is blowing at the moment. North east england, 2a miles an hour. 73 miles an hour over the tops of the pennines. At the moment we have got gusts of wind of 57 miles an hour, so two or three times the strength of the winds elsewhere in Northern England. Overnight it will stay quite blurry and there will be a lot of cloud around with Rain Pushing Northwards and westwards. None of the rate will be heavy. Temperatures four to seven overnight. The weekend whether prospect is dominated by this low Weather Pressure further south. It will throw in bands of rain across the uk, and on saturday we start off with Rain In The South West going into Northern England and that will move northwards to Reach Scotland and Northern Ireland in the afternoon. At the same time it will brighten up across east anglia and the midlands with hazy, sunny spells coming through. Could get up to 13 in the sunshine. But in the north sea coast cold again, temperatures just six or seven celsius. Saturday looks like
in medical terms, a never event is an incident which should never happen if proper safety procedures are correctly implemented. in the year from the 1st of april 2020, uhb had 12 never events, the highest of any trust in england. throughout this investigation, we have heard the same thing time and time again clinicians telling us they feared that if they raised safety concerns, then management would take action against them, perhaps even end their careers. it was, we were told, the wholesale intimidation of the staff into silence. i and other consultants raised concerns about patient safety, and we realised if you do, then you will get punished quite quickly and quite harshly. so they will make all kinds of spurious investigations, and they will try to intimidate you that way. why did you decide to leave, rather than continue to fight? because i think there was no end to this fight and they were trying, as they did with other colleagues,
a bbc investigation has uncovered what insiders have called a culture of fear among staff at one of england s worst performing nhs trusts. current and former staff at university hospitals birmingham say they fear being subjected to disciplinary action if they speak up about patient safety. the investigation was conducted by newsnight and bbc west midlands. david grossman reports. the university hospitals birmingham trust, known as uhb, is huge one of the largest in the uk, with four big hospitals serving over 2 million patients a year. for the population of birmingham and across the west midlands, this trust pretty much is the nhs. but it is also struggling, rated requires improvement the third of four possible rankings. it came last but one on an analysis of nhs trusts in england.
whistle blowers at one of england s worst performing hospital trusts have said a culture of fear among staff is putting patients at risk. current and former staff at university hospitals birmingham have told bbc newsnight that they fear being subjected to disciplinary action if they speak up about patient safety. david grossman reports. the university hospitals birmingham trust, known as uhb, is huge, one of the largest in the uk with four big hospitals serving over two million patients a year. for the population of birmingham and right across the west midlands, this trust pretty much is the nhs. but it s also struggling rated requires improvement , the third of four possible rankings. it came last but one on an analysis of nhs trusts in england. the problems at that the trust have been known about for years. back in 2017, the trust commissioned an internal report into 20 deaths
where he is working as a senior consultant haematologist. there was definitely a lack of safe patient care and a lack of ownership of the patient, a lack of looking after the patient the way they should look after these patients in a very detailed way, in detailed management. and those patients all died, that is why you looked at them. exactly. should they have died? could they have been saved? they could be saved. certainly, when you don t have an action done, then you don t really know the outcome. that is a sentiment we have heard from other clinicians, that they were just not being listened to when they raised concerns about safety. and there is evidence that patient safety at the trust has been compromised. in medical terms, a never event is an incident which should never happen if proper safety procedures are correctly implemented. in the year from the 1st of april 2020, uhb had 12 never events, the highest of any trust in england.