Grim reality as Preston and Chorley hospitals facing £32m budget cuts this year
Staff at the trust that runs the Royal Preston and Chorley hospitals face working under what may feel like “restrictive and difficult” conditions as the organisation attempts to find £6m of additional savings by the end of the financial year, its bosses have warned.
The board heard last month that the trust’s situation meant that it would receive “mandated support” from the regional teams at NHS England and NHS Improvement. However, the facility – which accommodated around 50 patients at any one time – was decommissioned at the end of June, in spite of its success in helping increase the capacity for the trust to carry out pre-planned operations. At the time, Mr. McGee pointed towards the opening the following month of the 24-bed Cuerden ward at Chorley Hospital as an alternative method of boosting the bed space available at the trust.
It was acknowledged that hospital departments had been “working hard already” to make savings, but noted that the trust now had to ”dig a little deeper and do some of the things that may feel very restrictive and difficult, but that are expected of organisations in our position”. Staff were told in the letter that the trust must “seek ways of improving what we do today, find innovative solutions to eliminate waste, reduce variation and tackle inefficiencies so we better utilise the resources we have for improvement” – but were assured that “great progress” was already being made.
Bringing Lancashire's healthcare budget back into balance The financial challenge faced by Lancashire Teaching Hospitals is being felt to varying degrees right across the healthcare system in the county. As of the end of October 2022, the Lancashire and South Cumbria region was reporting a £61.9m deficit – £47.6m above the more modest, but still significant, £14.3m gap that it was expecting.
Ms. Proffitt added that there were “real opportunities” to drive down costs by avoiding “waste and duplication”. That could be done “without impacting [on] patient care”, she told colleagues. Lancashire County Council chief executive Angie Ridgwell – a partner member of the ICB, representing all of Lancashire’’s local authorities – stressed the need to avoid simply “cost-shunting” responsibilities from one part of the health and social care system to another.
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