ARTICLE · 08 OCTOBER 2019

Split Sites: Divide And Conquer?

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More trusts are turning to the ‘split site' model to redesign how and where they deliver services. Such re-engineering requires skilled leadership, and staff and public engagement, but is this a panacea?

United KingdomCorporate/Commercial Law

Alistair Robertson

More trusts are turning to the 'split site' model to redesign how and where they deliver services. Such re-engineering requires skilled leadership, and staff and public engagement, but is this a panacea?

In 2016, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was, according to Chief Executive Officer Deborah Lee, facing a number of pressures: "Not only were we in financial special measures, there were rising waiting times and increasing numbers of operations being cancelled at short notice in a number of services including orthopaedics, £6 million of NHS work was being done in the private sector, productivity wasn't what it could have been and we were not serving staff or patients well."

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