Turnaround Press Statement - 3rd February 2010

Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust announced the launch of its Turnaround Plan to Staff and Stakeholders last week.

Following this announcement, a statement has appeared on various web sites and media that the Trust intends cutting 250 jobs.

The Trust has NOT announced that 250 jobs will go. We do recognise that as a result of implementation of the Turnaround Plan, there is a potential loss of jobs across the organisation. However, the posts that could be affected will not be clear until we start working through the Turnaround Plan. Additionally it is our clear intention to ensure that posts are reduced, wherever possible, by not filling current vacancies and staff affected by the changes will, wherever possible, have the opportunity to move within the organisation. Redundancies would be the last possible option for the Trust, and we have already begun freezing vacancies since July last year to help with the redeployment of staff.

We are meeting with our unions on a weekly basis in the best interests of our staff, and any information regarding redeployment or loss of posts will be given to our own staff before we would issue any statement externally.