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West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (WSFT) is calling on members of the local community, patients, local residents, and charitable and voluntary organisations to step forward to help shape the plans for the future healthcare development.
The Trust was confirmed at the end of last year as one of 40 across the country to receive funding for new build projects under the Government’s Health Infrastructure Plan. Plans are underway to begin shaping the design of the building and services within it, but a new Co-Production Community Engagement Group (CCEG) is being established to help develop and shape the hospital re-development proposals.
Construction work is due to start in March 2021 on a new £68million hospital at Salford Royal.
Salford Royal is the major trauma centre for Greater Manchester and the hub site for emergency General Surgery for the North West of Manchester.
Once complete, the specialist facility is set to receive 90% of all major trauma patients in Greater Manchester.
Planning permission for the six-storey development (previously referred to as the Acute Receiving Centre) was granted in December 2019. The new hospital build on the Salford Royal site is part of the Government’s Health Infrastructure Plan - which is due to deliver 48 hospitals across the country by 2030.
A MAJOR investment project is underway at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester, which will see the hospital’s pharmacy totally refurbished. The new purpose-built hospital pharmacy will include temperature controlled environments, and will host state of the art equipment including a robot which handles the safe storage, rotation, tracking and delivery of medicines. The robot will also automatically generate stock order replacements and release some emergency drugs out of hours, allowing specialist pharmacy staff to spend more time directly supporting patients and colleagues. This investment is part of the trust’s commitment to continuing to develop and improve the health and care services at Winchester hospital.
A vital new clinical assessment area has opened at the hospital, hoping to reduce A&E congestion. The new area was opened on February 1 and is part of the hospital s urgent care services to help reduce the congestion often seen in the A&E department. The hospital hopes this will also help minimise the spread of coronavirus at the site and help them move patients to the most appropriate place in the hospital to minimise the spread. It will help the medical team to be able to assess patients from a variety of areas properly before taking them (triaging) to the most appropriate department for care, or whether the patient can be discharged straight away.