Nurses at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust are having to clean wards after cleaners from a private company in order to maintain standards, the trust board has said.
At a meeting of the board last Thursday, the trust said Carillion, which won a £200m, five year estates and facility contract in 2014, had not made sufficient improvements. The trust warned Carillion in July that it faces having the contract terminated if it does not turn the service around.
After the board meeting a trust spokeswoman said: “Nottingham University Hospitals Trust remains deeply concerned about the cleanliness of our hospitals. “Following escalation of our concerns to Carillion we have instigated vigorous, additional interventions to focus Carillion on improving cleanliness to the required standards as quickly as possible.
Full story in The HSJ 3 October 2016