Minor injuries unit at Accrington Victoria Hospital to re-op

Accrington Victoria Hospital
THE minor injuries unit at Accrington Victoria Community Hospital will re-open later this month.
The services were suspended in January by East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust as the number of inpatients fighting Coronavirus soared to an all time peak.
The Trust implemented surge plans to cope with demand and redeployed staff from Accrington to care for people in other settings.
Trust bosses said that although demand for services remained high and it continued to treat around 250 inpatients infected with the virus each day, it would reopen the unit on February 22.
Sharon Gilligan, Chief Operating Officer at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “We suspended minor injuries at Accrington Victoria in January when we were caring for a very high number of inpatients with Covid and really struggling to find enough staff to safely look after them. Staffing remains fragile for us at both Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital and Burnley General but, as the level of community infections continues to reduce and hospital admissions follow, I am confident that we can reopen the unit safely.

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