Of company’s fatcat flops
Multiple A&E visits made by 30,000
to keep the ageing building operational until completion of the new one in 2022.
Trust chief executive Aidan Kehoe says: “I am angry at the way Carillion has behaved. I look at it and think these people were taking huge bonuses that they are not paying back and will leave the people of Liverpool waiting years more for a hospital.”
Managers are having to employ 18 staff at the incomplete new hospital just to turn the 4,000 taps on and off regularly to prevent the build-up of deadly bacteria.
A second hospital in Birmingham under construction and abandoned by Carillion will take three years longer to build and at benefits until October last year under his severance deal.
Chairman Philip Green collected more than £500,000 after taking over in 2014. Reports say Howson and Green were quizzed by the Insolvency Service last month as part of its probe into the Carillion and double the cost. The Midland Metropolitan will be Europe’s biggest emergencies-only hospital and was intended to treat 170,000 A&E patients a year from this summer. It was meant to replace parts of Sandwell Hospital and City Hospital, Birmingham. Priced at £350million, it will now cost least £605million. Carillion was paid £205million towards the project. Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust said it has had to find more than £400million to complete the hospital and keep current emergency services running.
When Carillion, subcontracted to provide DANGER Water spills out collapse, which has left taxpayers with a bill of almost £150million. Howson’s replacement Keith Cochrane was set to get a chunk of his £750,000 annual salary until July. Chief financial officer Zafar Khan was also eligible to continue getting his £425,000 a year wage until July.
Staff at Royal Liverpool deal with flooded ward services such as building maintenance, catering, cleaning and portering, went into liquidation regulator NHS Improvement admitted 14 trusts were affected.
Others included South Tees Hospitals, Nottingham University Hospitals, North Bristol and Portsmouth Hospitals. Carillion also dumped an unknown number of GP and community services across the country.
It is a far cry from the glitzy 10-year vision of the NHS unveiled by Theresa May in Liverpool on Monday.
Introducing a blueprint for the health service, she claimed to have “prioritised the NHS” saying the Tories had “delivered real improvements for patients”.
That came despite creeping privatisation and a decade of historic under-funding
The Department of Health and Social Care said: “We continue to support and fund the Royal Liverpool Trust to get the new hospital built as quickly as possible, while making every penny of taxpayers’ money count.
“We want patients to continue to receive world-class care in world-class facilities delivered by our excellent NHS staff.”
■ Hospital starts tonight at 9pm on BBC2. MORE than 30,000 patients went to A&E more than 10 times last year, some of them notching up hundreds of visits, data shows.
Between them, 31,492 “high-intensity users” attended A&E more than 500,000 times between June 2017 and May 2018.
Ten people visited A&E more than 235 times each.
Just 0.4% of patients made up 4% of all A&E attendances in England, the study by healthcare analysts Dr Foster found.
HIUs were more likely to live in deprived areas, be 21 to 31, and visit A&E at night.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was the most common complaint.