10.07.12
Mid Yorkshire Trust plans reorganisation to cut deficit
A hospital losing £100,000 a day through inefficiencies is considering one of two options to reorganise services. Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has to save £24m by April by 2013, but will end this year with a £26m deficit.
Two options are being considered for the three hospitals at Dewsbury, Pindersfields and Pontefract. Both of these would see the maternity unit at Dewsbury downgraded.
The first option would involve the consolidation of children’s services and consultant-led maternity services atWakefield, changes to urgent care at Pontefract and reorganisation of surgery across the trust.
Bringing all emergency and complex services intoPinderfieldsHospitaland increasing the level of planned and diagnostic services at Dewsbury and Pontefract hospitals offer a second option for service reconfiguration.
The trust will not be in the financial position to gain foundation trust status in the “foreseeable future”, let alone by April 2013, the trust stated.
Stephen Eames, the trust’s interim chief executive, said: “The challenges faced by the trust have been a matter of public concern for many years. The discussions we have had with people so far have brought us to the point where we feel we have two options to consider.
“The first looks at doing what we must do to make services clinically safe and sustainable, whilst the second goes further, radically reorganising services across our hospital sites to make the best use of resources.”
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