New Pinderfields - nice but what about the beds!
I went on a tour around the New Pinderfields hospital last week. I was part of a group of GPs who were shown around by the New Hospital Development Manager. We were shown A&E, Intensive Care, Theatres and Recovery and a typical ward.
It was very impressive. Pinderfields needs to become more efficient to afford the new hospital and it was easy to see how the new hospital will be more efficient. One block of operating theatres instead of four, a large recovery ward instead of four small recovery wards, very close access to surgical wards and much easier communication between core parts of the hospital.
The Emergency Department was particularly impressive - lots more clinical space, separation of adults and childrens and close integration with both adult assessment beds and paediatric assessment beds.
So overall I was most impressed. But, and there always was going to be a but ... the new hospital at Pinderfields has 708 beds and at Pontefract there will be 66 beds = 774 beds in total. This is 157 less than there are at the moment. Currently Pinderfields and Pontefract is full, most of the time. We have been getting faxes for the last six weeks from the Trust telling us that their bed state is on Red alert. How on earth are they going to cope with 150 less beds ....
It was very impressive. Pinderfields needs to become more efficient to afford the new hospital and it was easy to see how the new hospital will be more efficient. One block of operating theatres instead of four, a large recovery ward instead of four small recovery wards, very close access to surgical wards and much easier communication between core parts of the hospital.
The Emergency Department was particularly impressive - lots more clinical space, separation of adults and childrens and close integration with both adult assessment beds and paediatric assessment beds.
So overall I was most impressed. But, and there always was going to be a but ... the new hospital at Pinderfields has 708 beds and at Pontefract there will be 66 beds = 774 beds in total. This is 157 less than there are at the moment. Currently Pinderfields and Pontefract is full, most of the time. We have been getting faxes for the last six weeks from the Trust telling us that their bed state is on Red alert. How on earth are they going to cope with 150 less beds ....
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