Plan in place to deal with eye-operation delays in North Staffordshire
A PRIVATE hospital and North Staffordshire's biggest health centre have been chosen to carry out non-urgent eye operations to people prevented from receiving the treatment at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire.
The complex has had to suspend its service because so many people are on its waiting lists to have their sight corrected that it can no longer hit Government waiting list targets.
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TRIAGE PLEDGE: CCG communic-ations manager Tamsin Carr.
Instead, the area's NHS fundholding bodies have clinched a one-year deal with the private company, Birmingham-based Midland Eye Institute, to treat the patients.
Following fears that people may have to travel long distances out of North Staffordshire to have the operations, the two local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have confirmed the company's eye specialists will treat cases at the new £14 million Cobridge Primary Care Centre in Elder Road and St Jude's Hospital, Sandy Lane, Basford.
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No-one will have to pay for the care which starts on January 3 and will give the UHNS a chance to reduce its outpatients backlog of thousands of people with conditions such as cataracts and glaucoma.
CCG communications manager Tamsin Carr said: "Patients will be clinically triaged and those with routine, general conditions that can safely be managed within the community will be offered a choice of location, date and time for their appointment.
"Patients with urgent or sight threatening conditions and children will continue to be seen at UHNS."
Comments
by cooljay
Wednesday, December 26 2012, 10:12PM
“How can North staffs new hospital make money? If it has lost the fast and profitable work?
All the private centres and clinics "cherry pick" the easy and fast cases and when things go wrong they are sent back to the local dept to pick up whats left!!!
The PFI loan has to be paid and with less patients and higher costs and a reduction in the profitable work and with the reduction in tariff next year. Is it going to be another bail out and more cases of poor care and higher legal costs?
The management said beds in community and this is not happening.
The NHS will be private within the next year and will only cover the essentials!!!!
Why has the backlog built up and which manager has gone over this failure in management?”