Effective bankruptcy in the next few years unless the Funding System is reformed. A report by the local Government Information Unit has Found Services like parks, Leisure Facilities and libraries are at risk of being cut, while council tax could rise in some areas. Our reporter Vincent Mcaviney has more. Yay well done. Alex is about to turn 18, and on top of the regular worries parents have about their children, mum, sylvia also has to think about alexs autism and the extra support he needs to gain independence. Support thats under fire for her and other families as Birmingham City council struggles with financial difficulties. What you get is families that are on their knees with a trauma presentation, traumatised kids, and they never get decent outcomes. Theyjust end up constantly trying to get the basics, which everybody else s child gets naturally. And its Notjust Birmingham thats struggling. Across the country, councils are warning that front line neighbourhood Services Like parks
behind the scenes of how one of the uk s biggest hospitals transitions from old to new. we are going this way. liverpool s biggest hospital is on the move. ward 7a is ready to release patients. more than 600 patients and thousands of staff will be transferred to a brand new building. i m quite nervous. we can plan for as many eventualities as possible but actually until the day of the move itself, we won t know exactly who we are transferring. it s taken nine years and more than £850 million to complete. hundred times better, hundred times better. i absolutely cannot wait. any number of things could go wrong, but nothing can. cheering and applause and by the end, the hope is the health services of an entire city will be transformed. absolutely exciting. best thing that could happen to liverpool. siren wails right in the heart of the city, the royal liverpool hospital has been a landmark since the 1970s. i think the building itself at the time it was actually put up was proba
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held for the patients so there is no delay, the patient can move straight down the left along the back corridor to the entrance of the tunnel. any medical episode in the tunnel would bring the entire system to a halt. so before he goes in there, anthony s checked again. so if the patient isn t looking well enough, we can bring them through, do some extra checks. just make sure the vital signs, blood pressure, pulse, and the oxygenation is ok. for those patients are safe to then be transferred into the new build. most patients will make the same journey, but not all. the vascular ward is heading to an entirely different hospital. for david, it will be his first time outside in two months after losing his leg to gangrene. i m looking forward to it,