East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is facing a £26 million overspend and has implemented a number of cost-cutting measures, including a freeze on recruitment and the potential scrapping of the patient shuttle service.
The boss of East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust has warned it is running a £26 million overspend and needs to take steps to ‘reduce costs with immediate effect’. Chief executive Martin Hodgson outlines a series of measures to achieve this in a letter to all staff including a freeze on recruitment, an end to non-essential activity and considering scrapping the shuttle bus which takes patients between the Royal Blackburn and Burnley General Hospitals .
His letter says that at the end of October ELHT was overspending by £26m and ‘we are not seeing any reduction’. Mr Hodgson’s comments come after the the trust revealed 15-hour waits for patients at the Royal Blackburn’s accident and emergency department triggering a ‘red alert’. His letter to staff says the trust was ‘under a programme of system-level investigation and intervention, with an unequivocal mandate to reduce costs with immediate effect’ and treating the cash crisis as ‘a major incident similar to our response to Covid’. Mr Hodgson said the current waiting times at the Royal Blackburn A and E were ‘unacceptable’. Warning of difficult decisions to make the said ‘focus on discharges across every area as a priority, reducing our bed occupancy before Christmas and into the New Year’. The letter sets of a range of further measures to be adopted by ELHT including: * a hold all on vacancies for a minimum of 12 weeks with very few exceptions based only on critical requirements; * a stop on all non-essential spending for every team without exception; * a pause on non-essential educational activity to reduce costs and enable colleagues to remain in their roles, removing the need for expensive bank or agency cover; * reducing or stopping completely any activity that the trust is not funded for; and * reconsidering any activity not within its core business including likely changes to provision such as the shuttle bu
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