A new £17.6m hospital ’emergency village’ including a mini children’s hospital is planned in in part of Nottinghamshire. The proposals have been years in the making after the children’s ward at Bassetlaw District General Hospital, in Worksop, stopped providing an overnight service in 2017.
It followed safety concerns relating to staffing, with the ward struggling in the past to hire paediatric nurses and other staff members.
It was revealed in 2019 that Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals Trust, the organisation in charge of the hospital, was forced to spend £14,000 a month transferring sick children to Doncaster Royal Infirmary.
