Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
| Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | |
|---|---|
| Geography | |
| Location | Worcester, Redditch, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England |
| Organisation | |
| Hospital type | NHS hospital trust |
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| Website | www |
The Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a hospital trust of the National Health Service, which runs three hospitals in Worcestershire, England: the Alexandra Hospital, Redditch, Kidderminster Hospital and Treatment Centre in Kidderminster, and the Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Worcester.
Services in Kidderminster and Redditch have been under threat for many years. Proposals to downgrade Kidderminster hospital provoked the establishment of Independent Community and Health Concern. Their candidate Dr Richard Taylor defeated David Lock the sitting Labour MP in the 2001 General Election. The building of the new Treatment Centre, in Kidderminster was handled by Durrow healthcare consultancy.
In November 2013 further proposals to reduce services in Redditch were opposed by Redditch, Bromsgrove and Stratford councils who claimed "The removal of services from Redditch will leave what is already a vulnerable society, with the worst accessibility to health services in the region, and will introduce substantial inequalities with the populations of Redditch, Bromsgrove, Studley, Alcester and neighbouring areas being significantly worse off than all other areas in Worcestershire."
The Trust opened a new cancer treatment unit which has three linear accelerators in January 2015, a partnership with University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, which it hopes will treat about 1,500 patients per year who previously had to travel for radiotherapy. It is also intended to extend the chemotherapy services available on the site.
In December 2013 the Trust had to cancel non-urgent operations and appointments due to increased pressure on their A&E units.
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