The trust is £2m behind budget – with more than half of the shortfall estimated to be due to walkouts
Industrial action by NHS staff cost the trust that runs the Royal Preston and Chorley and South Ribble hospitals more than £1m in the space of just five days.
Speaking at the board meeting, LTH chief executive Kevin McGee – who has previously stressed that he supports staff in their right to strike, but expressed his hope for a swift resolution to the ongoing disputes – warned that the trust would lose a “shedload of activity as a consequence of the junior doctors’ strike if that continues through the summer and into the autumn”.
Non-executive LTH director Tim Watkinson questioned the degree to which the “leftfield” challenge posed by the strikes hit the trust’s financial performance was recognised by those who monitor it at a national level. “If they find a resolution to it relatively quickly, then we’ll spend the rest of the year trying to pull it back,” Mr. McGee added.
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