The ceiling collapses come after an outpatients unit was closed because it was deemed structurally unsafe
Patients were forced to be evacuated and scans cancelled after two ceilings collapsed within a day of one another at a crumbling Greater Manchester hospital.
That outpatient unit is now only providing 51 per cent of the outpatient appointments it should. Some of the services that were provided in the Outpatient B unit are now operating at less than the previous capacity. The first partial ceiling collapse in recent weeks occurred on March 4 in the hospital’s radiology department because of a leak, which meant it had to cancel several scheduled procedures. The trust has not disclosed how many appointments were affected, the Guardian has reported.
Ms James told the board that, alongside the closure of the outpatient unit, ‘we have also suffered unexpected and unrelated ceiling collapses in our critical care unit and radiology department, caused by leaks from the heating system’. She added: “The critical care unit had to be evacuated but no patients suffered harm thanks to the prompt actions of our staff. The leak in the radiology department did cause the cancellation of some appointments.
Tom Morrison, a local Liberal Democrat councillor, added: “Important operations are being postponed by weeks because the buildings are decaying.” The backlog of high-risk repair costs stands at £2.9m. In 2022-23, there were 73 ‘clinical service incidents caused by estates and infrastructure failure,’ an increase compared to 32 such incidents in 2021-22.
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