The minor injuries unit at an Essex hospital could be moved “to help more people get faster diagnosis and treatment,” says the NHS Essex Integrated Care Board.<\/p>\n
The unit at Orsett Hospital would be moved about a mile and a half away to Thurrock Community Hospital, which bosses say has “more modern facilities”.<\/p>\n
The plans are still being finalised and will be subject to further discussions within the NHS in the coming months.<\/p>\n
Samantha Goldberg, executive director of commissioning acute and adult mental health services at NHS Essex, said: “People across Essex have told us that faster diagnosis and treatment should be a top priority.”<\/p>\n
Goldberg said the plan was be a “positive step” for patients.<\/p>\n
“Moving the service to Thurrock Community Hospital, alongside the Community Diagnostic Centre, would help bring more care, tests and treatment together in one place,” she added.<\/p>\n
It comes at the same time Mid & South Essex NHS Foundation Trust said it had “safety concerns” with the Orsett Hospital building.<\/p>\n
However, Dawn Scrafield, deputy chief executive of the trust, said it was “too early” to speculate what this might mean for services there.<\/p>\n
She said concerns about the estate were being “properly investigated”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The minor injuries unit at an Essex hospital could be moved “to help more people get faster diagnosis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-740687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}