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Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is an NHS trust which runs three hospitals and one ward in Worcestershire, England: The Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Worcester, the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch, Kidderminster Hospital and Treatment Centre in Kidderminster, and Burlingham Ward at Evesham Community Hospital in Evesham.
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]
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:
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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.
Meanwhile, acute respiratory disease accounts for 13.8% of emergency department visits statewide, according to this week’s state report: 2.4% related to COVID-19, 2% to influenza and .3% to RSV.
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]
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