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£30m plan unveiled for special measures Brighton NHS Trust
A £30 million plan has been revealed for Brighton NHS Trust, aimed at relieving some of the pressure the trust in under by combining leadership with Western Sussex Hospitals (WSH) for the next three years.
The move means Marianne Griffiths will be chief of both trusts from 1 April, and will lead on using £30 million government funding to pay for an emergency area next to A&E to provide extra capacity and space.
BSUH is constrained by its current A&E.
Last year’s inspection by the Care Quality Commission concluded that Brighton's hospital trust was unsafe and poorly led, criticising the trust's board and Brighton's ageing Royal Sussex County Hospital site.
Issues included cancelled appointments and operations, delays in providing diagnostic results, low staffing levels, overcrowding and concerns over fire exits.
The new A&E centre will add four extra treatment areas and two extra triage spaces to the Urgent Care Centre. The core staff area will be moved into the middle of the Urgent Care Centre giving staff easier access to patients and the equipment required for treatments will be moved from a remote store room into the heart of the centre, where it is most needed.
Griffiths said: "The primary objective of the organisation coming in is to make sure we exit those special measures as quickly as possible because it really matters to our public, to our patients and our staff."
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