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Two patients died while waiting on hospital trolleys in corridors at Worcester Royal Hospital during the 2017 New Year period. Many other patients at Worcester Royal Hospital during the first week of January spoke of long waits, patients in corridors, overstretched staff doing their best. Similar problems are in other NHS hospitals. [20]
The Trust currently employees around 5,000 staff across the two counties. It was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 3127 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 4.36%. 69% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 58% recommended it as a ...
A new hospital was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract to replace the Worcester Royal Infirmary in 1999, with the new site located on the eastern side of the city. [1] The new hospital was designed by Anshen Dyer, [4] built by Bovis Lend Lease [5] at a cost of £85 million [6] and opened in March 2002. [7]
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has apologised and said its A&Es were seeing high numbers of walk-in patients, with ambulance patients experiencing lengthy waits to be handed over.
The annual health budget is about £900m, more than half of which goes to Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. [5] The three CCGs announced in March 2016 that they were facing a collective deficit of £25 million in 2016/7 and were considering restricting access to a range of treatments. The list of treatments under consideration includes:
More than 15,000 hours were lost in October 2021 due to hospital handover delays over 30 minutes. [14] In June 2022 there were 98 patient harm incidents up from 49 in June 2021, mostly due to worsening hospital handover delays. Average response times for category one calls reached nearly nine minutes against the target of seven.
Roughly half of the funds ($13.3 million) were paid to Heywood Healthcare in April 2023. The rest came in monthly $2.2 million installments from October 2023 through the end of February.
The hospital, which replaced the Smallwood Hospital at Church Green, [1] was completed in 1985. [2] It was officially opened by Princess Alexandra in April 1987. [3]After four consultants left the hospital because of "continuing uncertainty about the future of Redditch Hospital" in February 2015, there were calls from a local pressure group for Government intervention. [2]