More than 100 jobs are to go at Walsall Manor Hospital after the closure of its loss-making laundry service.
The Crooked Bridge Textiles Laundry (CBT) at Walsall Manor Hospital is to go, Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust confirmed today.
Although 27 staff have found new jobs, the other 77 face redundancy.
Twelve have started training as healthcare support workers for a new day case theatre due to open at Cannock Chase Hospital later this year and around 15 have found work with the Sunlight Service Group.
CBT made a loss of nearly £457,000 last year and was described as no longer “commercially viable”.
Martin Yeates, chief executive of Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “We have considered long and hard the range of options to try to avoid having to close the laundry and were open to any other suggestions.”
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A laundry in a hospital shouldn’t be run for profit, it should be there to protect the patients by offering clean bed sheets etc. Is this another way a hospital is trying to cut costs?
So what’s replacing it? Private contractors surely - scarey. Same level of service, I doubt it. No wonder the NHS is in a mess. When is this country going to put caring properly for people ahead of targets.