Royal Surrey Community contract

The Royal Surrey together with Procare Health Ltd have bid for the contract to run adult Community Services across Guildford and Waverley including Haslemere, Milford and Cranleigh Community Hospitals. They are the preferred bidder at this time and therefore, subject to detailed agreements, can expect to be successful to start at beginning 2018/19. These services were run by Virgin Healthcare.

Procare Health Ltd is a private company run by GPs.

Bringing together provision of acute and community services offers many exciting opportunities provided of course that the services are well run in accord with community wishes and involvement. Haslemere, Farnham and Milford Hospitals have a special place in the hearts of the communities they serve and it will be important to ensure those communities are happy with the change in management and the opportunities that presents.

More information when I get it.

Awards

Five teams in the Royal Surrey were shortlisted recently for the Nursing Times award. Although they didn't win the fact that five were shortlisted is a great credit to the hospital.

Strokes. 

I may have been quiet recently about Stroke Services but I have been actively pursing the matter of ensuring that Guildford stroke victims who are taken to St Peters Hyper Acute Stroke Unit have the option of being cared for in the Royal Surrey once they have been stabilised. This would put them on the same basis as those patients in the Royal Surrey Catchment area e.g. Cranleigh who are taken to Frimley Hospital. It is difficult persuading those in authority whose minds seem to be closed but I continue to try and will be meeting Paula Head the Royal Surrey Chief Executive in the New Ya-ear to sort out how I might proceed further.