Alexandra Hospital in Redditch sees all A&E consultants quit

[Northerner]

The entire consultant team running Accident and Emergency services at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch has resigned.

A further consultant has resigned from the Worcestershire Royal Hospital.

Their reasons for leaving are "continuing uncertainty about the future of Redditch Hospital", according to BBC Midlands Today health correspondent, Michele Paduano.

All five have been offered jobs at Warwick Hospital, the BBC understands.

"I am reliably told that the relationship between management and consultants has completely broken down. They had identified problems in the department and solutions, but weren't listened to," said Paduano.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-31463879

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[ypauly]

I hope Mr Hunt sack those managers without delay. How can a consultant not be listened to, surely he has more knowledge on his subject matter than anybody.

 

[grovesy]

It must be bad, if they have all resigned!

 

[trophywench]

Well it's the same Management as Worcester Hosp who banned the Paramedic - who had raised a safety concern, which he'd raised first with his boss who said OK tell whoever at the hospital.

The hospital had listened and they told him it was being actioned - and that they had no objection to the guy telling people about it to show it wasn't all bad news in the NHS - so he did, he was on the BBC Midlands News and he was full of praise.

Two days later he was on again - they'd banned him from all their premises. he'd gone through all the proper channels and hadn't embroidered anything, done everything absolutely properly. But someone clearly didn't like it.

The ambulance service were up in arms and it was later rescinded.

Something seems to smell somewhere ......

 

[Redkite]

Holy sh1t! What are local patients supposed to do now? Something is VERY wrong there...