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During the upcoming industrial action on 6th and 7th February by the Royal College of Nursing at Salisbury District Hospital, the focus of the hospital is to maintain safe and compassionate patient care. The hospital has been working closely with the Royal College of Nursing to ensure our wards are safely staffed and that critical services are maintained. Our Accident & Emergency Department and urgent care services will be functional. If you need to visit A&E please do so and our Maternity team will continue to safely deliver babies as they do 24 hours a day. We will have safe staffing levels for all inpatients. However, many of our outpatient clinics and planned surgery may be unable to go ahead as planned. Patients impacted will be contacted directly by the hospital. If you are not contacted directly, we would ask you to attend as planned. We would ask anyone that attends the hospital during the two days of industrial action to please be aware that staff might be stretched and to be prepared to wait a little longer or have appointments delayed.

A new state-of-the-art inpatient ward is under construction at Salisbury District Hospital, helping to reduce waiting times for elective surgery. Providing 24 additional beds, it will be an environmentally sustainable building that our clinical teams have been heavily involved in designing. Demolition of existing buildings began in March with construction of the main building planned for May. Access to all other buildings will remain unchanged throughout the ward construction. Projects updates will be given during this time. Pictured above is an artist's impression of the new building.

During the upcoming industrial action on 18th and 19th January by the Royal College of Nursing, Salisbury District Hospital will be operating a Bank Holiday level service. The focus of the hospital during the two days of strike action is to maintain safe and compassionate patient care. Our Accident & Emergency Department will be fully functional and we will have safe staffing levels for all inpatients. However, many of our outpatient clinics and planned surgery may be unable to go ahead as planned. Patients impacted will be contacted directly by the hospital. If you are not contacted directly we would ask you to attend as planned. The hospital has been working closely with the Royal College of Nursing to ensure our wards are safely staffed and that critical services are maintained. We would ask anyone that attends the hospital during the two days of industrial action to please be aware that staff will be stretched by the industrial action and to be prepared to wait a little longer or have appointments delayed. Here is a message from CEO Stacey Hunter on the RCN strike: https://youtu.be/n6ZNfrvDyyw

There is a Level 3 Amber Weather Alert for the region, with a 90% probability of severe cold weather and icy conditions until Friday 20th January. Overnight frosts and daytime temperatures in low single figures of Celsius are expected. There is also a chance of wintry showers, along with icy patches. For information on how to stay warm and well visit the NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/seasonal-health/keep-warm-keep-well/

If anyone has any concerns following the recent guilty verdict of the trial of Mr Mansoor Khan (former Plastic Surgeon at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust), please contact our dedicated helpline number on 07880278899 or email sft.mrkhanquestions@nhs.net. To confirm the Trust has been reassured by the National Crime Agency investigation team that none of the charges that Mr Khan has been found guilty of relate to any clinical work here at Salisbury District Hospital.  If anyone has any further information relating to this matter, please direct your concerns to the National Crime Agency on 0370 4967622.