Upgrades planned at two local hospitals to tackle operations backlog

Plans have been unveiled to add additional facilities to Wharfedale Hospital in Otley and Chapel Allerton Hospital, in a drive to tackle the NHS operations backlog.

Latest figures from NHS Digital show 90,000 patients are currently waiting for treatment from the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, and at the end of April, around 63 per cent of patients needing treatment had been waiting 18 weeks or more.

Phil Wood, chief executive of the trust, said the expansion plans would help reduce the waiting list.

He went on to say “We’ve got work under way in the planning stage at Chapel Allerton and Wharfedale Hospital, which will be in development during the next year to provide additional operating theatre capacity in those parts of the city.  This will allow us to improve our backlog position.”

The trust said the plans at Wharfedale Hospital alone would cost £10m and would see an elective care hub built on the site, as well as two new operating theatres, a recovery area and an admissions and discharge area.

The work is expected to be completed in 2024.

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