Gps have voted to reduce visits to patients homes, saying they no longer have the capacity to offer them. Doctors supported the proposal at a meeting of english local medical committees on friday. But the health secretary, matt hancock, said the idea of taking home visits out of gps contracts was a complete non starter. Jenny kumah reports. Family doctors say their workload is on the rise and this, coupled with falling gp numbers, mean something has to give. In his surgery in leeds this doctor is well aware of the challenges facing surgeries like his. One of the daily pressures that gp practices are under is the obligation to do home visits. What would be much better is if we had a dedicated Home Visiting team with people with the time to be able to do this throughout the day, rather than gps having to squeeze it in. Under the proposals, home visits would not be scrapped completely but delivered by a separate service. Similar to the way out of hours care has been contracted out. Someti
I think the funding needs to be increased. I think its a very low amount. As i said, for us as a charity its not an issue, but for other places that have got high costs, high staff costs, that then is a real thing. So i think if you are going to be giving more hours, you need to be giving more money per hour. And thats a real problem for lots of people. Childcare may not be the main headline grabber of this particular general election, but it remains an important issue for parents, for communities, and for the politicians seeking to represent them now and in the future. John maguire, bbc news, bristol. Now time for a look at the weather. Louise layer is at the map. Is it one of those mornings where it would be nice to pull the duvet back of your head and pretend it isnt happening . It certainly was for me. Beautiful perfect symmetry but it is not perfect weather. It is great and there is a lot of cloud across the country so this blanket of cloud will sit right across us for much of the
Now on bbc news peter taylor meets, the real derry girls. Derry, or londonderry. Famous for its murals, notorious for its troubles, and now celebrated in the Television Series derry girls. Ive been talking to the real derry girls, who, like their tv counterparts, are gutsy, funny, and brave. Im sinead, iwas counterparts, are gutsy, funny, and brave. Im sinead, i was born in the bogside in 1981. Im the only participant in the derry girls. They couldnt have the bus across the street like the ira wanted. They we re street like the ira wanted. They were going to shoot them. street like the ira wanted. They were going to shoot them. I am 10096 were going to shoot them. I am 100 a derry girls. I get quite a lot of stick, thats why i love them all l man and his wife and child were injured in the obama. My families experienced the troubles, and his cousin was murdered on bloody sunday. That was the worst experience we had during the troubles. Injured in the bombing. Derry has been part of my w
The dow is down over 200 points. Of course, pointing to weaker than expected Manufacturing Survey that was definitely the trigger. A lot of the rally since late summer was about a process with industrial activity. I will point out weakness today is not specifically concentrated in manufacturing, it seems like it is an excuse to say we had a nice run, havent had many pull backs. See the nasdaq down 1. 4 not full of manufacturing. It is more of a general cemen sentiment. U. S. Data not improving on time according to the schedule investors were hoping, we have a backoff. I would point out, s p is back to where we traded a week ago friday were skimming a bit off the top of the last part of the rally. Dow is down 220 as we talk now. Meantime, lets turn to the political ad hold outs mark sazuckerberg was reiteratig facebooks policy for now. At the end of the day i just think that in a democracy people should be able to see for themselves what politicians are saying even if the ads contain fa
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