Welcome!

This website is here to provide information and updates on the progress of the Trust’s Project to Centralise and Modernise Acute Services on the Broomfield Hospital Site and the associated project for the Transfer and Expansion of Staff Residential Accommodation. It is complementary to the Trust’s main website http://www.meht.nhs.uk/

Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust was established in November 1991, but plans to centralise acute services in Chelmsford stretch back to the 1970’s. These plans are now becoming a reality via a major £180 million project, which, along with associated modernisation of the way we provide services, will improve quality and efficiency and ensure the aims and targets of the NHS Improvement Plan are met.

The main goal is to create a single site District General Hospital, by increasing the capacity of Broomfield Hospital and closing St. John’s Hospital. The objectives for this project are to:

• Fundamentally change the organisation and capacity of acute services so as to deliver the targets of the NHS Improvement Plan;

• Remove the inefficiencies created by split site working across Broomfield and St. John’s Hospitals;

• Improve accessibility to acute services;

• Increase the ability to recruit and retain the best staff;

• Reduce the backlog of maintenance that has built up for the Trust’s existing buildings.

Meeting these objectives will produce the high quality, efficient and financially sound acute Trust that local people expect and deserve.

I hope you will enjoy following the progress of this project via this website.

Andrew Pike Chief Executive