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Southport and Ormskirk hospital trust "unlikely" to be able to continue providing at least a dozen services.
The hospital trust recently merged with neighbouring St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS trust in a bid to make savings under a business plan that could see at least twelve services cut to save money.
The chair of the Southport & Ormskirk trust board Neil Masom claimed the hospitals had "a dozen or so ‘fragile’ clinical services" which the trust were unlikely to be able to continue. Mr. Masom apportioned this to weaknesses in the Trust’s finances and the inability to recruit and retain staff.
The so-called 'partnership' between the two hospital trusts is inline with NHS cuts right across the board under the regions Shaping Care Together program.
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Southport and Ormskirk Hospitals Trust has responded to claims the hospitals are at risk of closure or downsizing.
