MOVES have been put in place to reduce the ‘imminent risk’ to stroke services at Barnsley Hospital after it was revealed the unit’s two consultants will leave within a month of each other.
One is resigning for ‘personal reasons’ unconnected to work and the other is taking a year’s unpaid leave.
The unit is run by a team of specialist medical, nursing and therapy staff but the two consultants will leave in August and September.
Richard Jenkins, the hospital’s medical director, said such situations were assessed early to stop them escalating into serious problems and measures were being put in place to reduce the risk.
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