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Hospital Trust set to announce redundancies
Date published: 28 January 2012
The Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust is set to announce a ‘huge’ number of redundancies, Rochdale Online understands.
The Trust, which runs the Rochdale Infirmary as well as hospitals in Oldham, Bury and North Manchester, is believed to be in talks with the Department of Health and the Department of Employment over the redundancies.
We understand that the Trust wants to start shedding jobs in this financial year.
The news comes after the Trust confirmed they needed to make a further £13million savings – bringing the total they need to achieve by April to approximately £56million.
In February 2011 the Trust announced they needed to make initial savings of £43million in this financial year and they said that up to 1,000 jobs would be lost.
It is feared the axe will fall on those working at Rochdale Infirmary after many services were removed from the hospital. Over the past 12 months the Infirmary’s A&E has been replaced with an Urgent Care Centre and inpatient children’s and maternity services have also been removed.
Locally there has been anger over the management of the Trust. This week the Leader of Rochdale Council, Councillor Colin Lambert called for the ‘removal’ of the Trust’s Chief Executive and Chairman.
Residents have also been left angered after the Trust spent almost £3million with management consultants Ernst and Young.
Comments
They should just call him 'Mr Axeby' instead of Saxby. All he does is cut jobs, services and even whole hospitals.
It is a disgrace. The staff have been told nothing yet they get spoon-fed all this guff about how they are the Trust's most valuable resource and get a patronising 'thank you' message from the Chairman every Christmas.
Time the lot of them went but too late to save Rochdale's hospitals.
This was always going to happen from day one. Plan A. Moves services away gradually until what is left can not be justified. Need to close A&E to save money - easy just make sure its difficult to recruit staff so you can close a shift. Use this to "demonstrate" minimal impact. Service levels fall - admit you closed it too soon but make sure it can't be reopened before you do. Those doctors and nurses who object have been removed!
I have recieved superb personal care from all in the gastrology department over the last couple of years. I don't know how they have managed to continue the level of professionalism whilst the service is being chopped around them. If it hadnt been for their dedication, I dread to think what state I would be in now. God help us in the future.
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The management are nothing but bunch of jokers with no grey matter at all. If they want to save money sack the useless fleet of managers and invest in medical staff rather than getting rid of them. If you have to pay a consultancy firm then what's the point having finance department, just keep the pay roll people and get rid of the rest. And surely we want to get rid of Mr Saxby who has grey hair but no grey matter.
By faith @ 28/01/2012 23:04:00