It as come to my attention that all is not well with the: Scarborough & North East Yorkshire NHS Healthcare Trust.

It is now 3 week since I sent a list of Questions to the Scarborough & North East Yorkshire NHS Healthcare Trust's Chief Executive and top management; Have I had any answers....NO! Non what so ever.

Has there debts mounts and they face Bankruptcy, we believe; we the public and patients who the Trust are paid for out of Taxes paid; suffer.

Read this Catalogue of Back-door Saving?

By: Scarborough & North East Yorkshire NHS Healthcare Trust WE BELEIVE! also it is Fact in most cases Scarborough Hospital running on Emergency Generators 2+ hours a day to save money; this is a bad policy because Emergency Generators are there for a reason; and should not be used?  Bad Practice! 

• Recruitment seems to have stopped?
• Staff leaving are not replaced? 
• There is a complete BAN on Overtime? 
• Staff working and doing 2 jobs due to staff shortages..
• Staff on escort duties not replaced?
• 28 bed wards under-staff? by at least 2 or more....how long will this scenario continue....only the patients can suffer...we believe
• Gardener short at Bridlington...Not replaced?  This job is part of the yearly budget and has been accounted for!
• Maintenance staff short by 4 who have left...these are not been replaced?
• No gritting in icy condition or snowing.....Safety issue!
• Notices on all doors telling patients and visitor to be cautious when leaving the Bridlington Hospital due to no gritting been done.....safety issue!
• Litter around the hospital grounds looks untidy; no-one to do this job! un-sightly
• 100 nurses; auxiliary; pool & bank staff have been finished at Scarborough 1 week before Xmas they were given 1 week notice?
• Staff are been taken from Bridlington Hospital; Day & Night to work at Scarborough Hospital leaving Bridlington Hospital wards short of staff; will patients suffer by this; of course, you cannot maintain satisfactory  care, fact!
• We firmly believe Parking Charges will be increased very shortly?
• Rumors are nurses will have to pay parking charges in the future....we do-not believe this is in the best interests of all
• No babies born in Bridlington once again; Christmas or New Year; expectant mothers taken to Scarborough 2005/6?
• Any up-grades due at Bridlington Hospital have now been placed on a back-burner; indefinitely?
• Staff at Bridlington Hospital have been told to turn-off lights & heating in a money saving scheme?
• Nurses have been asked to come up with money saving ideas; YES! get ride off some management; your top-heavy!
• Out-side lighting as been turned off around the Hospital in a money saving exercise to save money; putting patients and staff at risk of falling or been mugged! Safety issue!
• CCTV Cameras have still not been repaired; it is now 10 months since the Trust were informed March 2005; letters were sent to the Chief Executive out-lining this problem...it was classed as a safety issue?
• Money raised by the town of Bridlington for a birthing Pool in Bridlington Hospital's Maternity unit as still not surfaced; were is this money people are asking??? 
• Nurses taken from Bridlington hospital to work in Scarborough hospital use Taxi's at a cost to the Tax-payer of £17 to £20 per trip each way; other nurses go by there own transport?
• There is anger in Unions and within the Nursing Community; leaving one hospital to work at another because staff have been laid off is playing Russia-Roulette with patients lives; nurses cannot do too many jobs as there work is dedicated and demanding; corners may be cut; the same standards cannot be met; Lives could be lost!
• Bridlington & District Hospital is called a Community Hospital by the Scarborough NHS Trust; this can only be seen as Down-grading?
• Complaints have already been received about cleanliness on wards at Bridlington Hospital; en-light of the above; we believe this could be a regular occurrence due to extreme staff shortages; introduced by a Trust Hell-Bent on saving money.....Viruses such as MSRA & Clostridium Difficile don't take prisoners...to stamped them out, you must first have the staff to tackle them head-on!  Reducing Staff levels do-not fight the Cleanliness that can be archived by having the right amount of staff in place; we ask the Trust NOT to cut corners! 
• By what the Trust are stating and doing; desperate measure are been taken; lets hope no live are lost or patients suffer un-necessarily.
• Bed-blocking is still the norm at Bridlington
• Patients are been sent home fast in a turn-around to free beds....complaints are been made?