Six options for delivering future hospital services across north and mid Hampshire are being considered by local NHS organisations as part of the Hampshire Together: Modernising our Hospitals and Health Services programme.
They have been published today as follows:
Option B – Investment would be made to sustain hospital services at the Basingstoke and Winchester sites for the long-term. Services including emergency care, consultant-led maternity care and intensive care would be centralised at one of the hospitals. Centralisation will help to ensure delivery of the clinical quality standards required for these services, so they can continue to be provided in north and mid Hampshire.
Option C – Emergency care, consultant-led maternity care and intensive care would be centralised in a new hospital, as would a new outpatient centre which would enable patients to undergo scans, have tests carried out and have an appointment with their consultant in the same visit. A centre for surgery planned in advance would be provided from a main satellite hospital, which would also benefit from additional investment. Outpatient consultations and a range of other hospital services would be provided at additional satellite locations across north and mid Hampshire.
Option D - Emergency care, consultant-led maternity care and intensive care would be centralised in a new hospital, as would a centre for surgery planned in advance and a new outpatient centre which would enable patients to undergo scans, have tests carried out and have an appointment with their consultant in the same visit. Outpatient consultations and a range of other hospital services would be provided at satellite locations across north and mid Hampshire, with some additional investment.
Option E – Emergency care, consultant-led maternity care and intensive care would be centralised in a new hospital, as would a centre for surgery planned in advance and a new outpatient centre which would enable patients to undergo scans, have tests carried out and have an appointment with their consultant in the same visit. An outpatient centre, offering the same services described above, would also be provided from a main satellite hospital, which would also benefit from additional investment. In addition, outpatient consultations and a range of other hospital services would be provided at additional satellite locations across north and mid Hampshire.
Option F – Emergency care, consultant-led maternity care and intensive care would be centralised in a new hospital, as would a new outpatient centre, which would enable patients to undergo scans, have tests carried out and have an appointment with their consultant in the same visit. A centre for surgery planned in advance and an outpatient centre offering the same services described above would be provided from a main satellite hospital, which would also benefit from additional investment. In addition, outpatient consultations and a range of other hospital services would be provided at additional satellite locations across north and mid Hampshire.
Option G – Emergency care, consultant-led maternity care and intensive care would be centralised in a new hospital, as would a centre for surgery planned in advance. An outpatient centre which would enable patients to undergo scans, have tests carried out and have an appointment with their consultant in the same visit would be provided from a main satellite hospital, which would also benefit from additional investment. In addition, outpatient consultations and a range of other hospital services would be provided at additional satellite locations across north and mid Hampshire.
Steve Brine MP said; “I have worked incredibly hard all Summer, including writing to thousands of households myself at one point, to get constituents to speak up during the Hampshire Together process which has otherwise passed by unnoticed. That is hardly surprising which is why I have said publicly, privately and in the House of Commons this is the wrong time to seek major changes to the local NHS if your aim is to do so with a modicum of engagement and consent from the general public.
“As I have maintained all along, this is about building a new hospital for Basingstoke and I repeat my call for the Trust to be honest how that will impact on the acute service in Winchester. Over the past ten years I have made it my business to understand the local NHS and support what is in our best interests in line with clinical advice. Politicians do not design health services and nor should they.
“I’ve never met a constituent who doesn’t want to be taken to the right place, to get the right treatment, when they’re acutely unwell and we deserve services here that give us the best chance of recovery should illness strike. Equally, we should be clear what services are actually at the RHCH now - and which ones haven’t been there for decades - including full service A&E.
“A District General Hospital is a delicate eco-system and the services it has are highly dependent on each other. We should be extremely careful before changing that and, if we plan to do so, be crystal clear with residents what change looks like. It is up to the clinicians to make that case. We’re listening.”
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