Bromley Hospitals' NHS Trust chief executive Ian Wilson
A healthy future for the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRU) is assured says the man in charge of Bromley's hospitals.
News Shopper spoke exclusively to Bromley Hospitals' NHS Trust chief executive Ian Wilson after stories showed the hospital in Farnborough, to be struggling in various areas:
It was served with an improvement notice by the Healthcare Commission after an inspection found bloodstains on walls and dust on surfaces.
Historical debts will reach £99m at the end of the financial year next month, and the hospital has introduced a recovery plan to turn around its finances.
A patient was recently left in agony after a surgical swab was left inside her after she gave birth by Caesarian section.
However Mr Wilson, 56, said in the interview the hospital is on course to balance its books and move on to providing some of the best care in England.
He said: "We will be working on things such as efficiency, how we get a really great service to people in the hospital, in such a way they get well more quickly and leave hospital sooner, and leave with the appropriate treatment and package of care which is comparable with the best in the country."
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Mr Wilson spent 10 years working for Tower Hamlets social services, turning it from the country's worst to its best, according to the Commission for Social Care Inspection.
One of the challenges he faces is its debt. But as interim chief executive of Brent Primary Care Trust he turned a £25m deficit into a £1.5m annual surplus.
In Bromley, an independent inquiry into the debts' origins is under way and a recovery plan has trimmed the annual overspend from £25m to £18.7m for this financial year.
Next year the trust is expected to break even, and will begin repaying debts, a process Mr Wilson admits could take between 50 and 100 years.
The damning Healthcare Commission report following a visit to the Princess Royal in January was unexpected.
But, Mr Wilson claims, it has proved a blessing in disguise, and he says the hospital is now challenging the best in the country for cleanliness.
This claim will be put to the test when the commission releases its follow-up report tomorrow.
To read the full interview with Ian Wilson click here.
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