West Sussex Primary Care Trust (PCT) will make a final decision on the recommendation at their board meeting being held in Haywards Heath next Wednesday.
In Board papers released today by the PCT, it is recommended that model three is approved by the Board. If agreed it will mean that:
• St Richards Hospital and Worthing Hospital will keep the majority of existing A&E services and Princess Royal Hospital will keep its current level of emergency services
• Intensive care will remain in all three hospitals (treatment and monitoring for people who are in a critically ill, or unstable, condition)
• Routine planned surgery will remain in all three hospitals (when a patient goes into hospital on a specific day, for a specific operation)
• Acute medical care, including emergencies (for example, heart attacks) will remain with only very few types of emergencies diverted to the major general hospital
• Emergency surgery and some other very specialist emergency services will be centralised at the Major General Hospital which will be either St Richards Hospital or Worthing Hospital (For Mid Sussex residents, these services were already centralised at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in 2005 as part of the Best Care, Best Place consultation)
• The recommended model would also support the centralisation of consultant led inpatient maternity services together with inpatient children's beds.
• Alongside the centralisation of higher risk care, two Midwife Led Units (MLUs) and one co-located midwife led unit will be available in West Sussex.
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