I work next door to Hinchingbrooke and within a couple of
months Circle asked our hospital to take over the ED and
Maternity services. These are the two departments that
always make a loss for hospitals. Our hospital declined,
partly because running these services on our own site is
hard enough.
Adrian
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:24:53 -0000
Mike <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This next financial year, our Trust is expected to make
>a 7% "efficiency gain", which I believe has never been
>achieved before by another Trust (2 - 3% best to date??).
> Options being mooted are all Consultants on a maximum of
>10PAs, staff rebanding, redundancies, new business, etc.
>
>
> I believe Hinchingbrooke has just been taken over by the
>Private Sector by a company called Circle. Staff and
>assets are supposed to be protected, and all current
>services will be maintained. Private Business obviously
>would only take on this sort of enterprise if they smelt
>a profit. I presume they will do this by renogiating
>staff salaries, redundancies, and concentrating on the
>more profitable services, etc. At a recent course I
>attended, one EM Consultant who had worked in many EDs
>and many countries, expressed the view that being taken
>over by a private Company may not necessarily be a bad
>thing, in that the best employer he had worked for was
>from within the private sector.
>
> Anyone from Hinchingbrooke lurking who could provide an
>insight into what effect this private take over will have
>on their ED, their hospital, staff and patients?
>
> I do not think we are alone, in that many other Trusts
>face savage cuts which threaten their survival. It would
>be good also to hear the views of others in the same
>boat.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dr. Mike Dudley
> EM Consultant
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