Children’s surgery will move out of The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital to others “better placed” to provide the specialist care, says the trust which runs the hospital.
The board of The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said the Birmingham hospital will cease providing paediatric surgery by 1 January next year but adds that patients currently awaiting surgery will see “no immediate changes”.
The decision follows a report by the Care Quality Commission earlier this year which said the hospital “required improvement” within several areas, including it’s services within intensive and critical care.
The Trust has undertaken a significant amount of work and investment to meet these recommendations, and progress has continued to be made. However, recent external reviews over the last few weeks have reiterated that paediatric inpatient surgery would be better delivered in a hospital setting with access to extensive centralised care facilities at all times.