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- Coventry Teaching PCT proposes operations go-slow. The PCT also plans not
to recruit replacements for 60 vacancies. The PCT's chief executive said: "We
may have to consider delaying some operations, as there are some procedures
are performed within four months, so we may have to look at doing these within
six months - to meet budgetary and NHS targets. We're also seeing if hospitals
will need to be paid for operations this year or if we can pay them in 2006/
07."
Birmingham Post 13 December 2005.
- 50-60 jobs to be cut in Nuneaton and the hospital could stop treating
complex cases. Dave Roberts, acting chief executive of the George Eliot
Hospital in Nuneaton, plans to lose 50-60 posts at the hospital. He also wants
to see more neurosurgery, cancer care and transplants carried out in the new
Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry, currently being built. The George Eliot would
end up offering similar services to St Cross Hospital in Rugby, which treats
80% of local patients, with more complex cases going elsewhere. Roberts sees
the Rugby hospital as "a model for the NHS."
Coventry
Evening Telegraph 13 December 2005
See also Experience for
earlier experiences in hospitals that are now managed by University Hospitals
Coventry and Warwickshire Trust.
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