Recruitment for nurses and other roles is underway as part of a plan to restore services at Grantham Hospital.

The measures are outlined in papers prepared for a meeting of the board tomorrow of the United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust.

The 10.15am meeting can be viewed from home using Microsoft Teams.

A report prepared for tomorrow's meeting details a raft of measures the trust has undertook at Grantham Hospital as part of a plan to restore services at the hospital following the pandemic, as previously reported by Nub News.

They include a thorough review of all of the Grantham ward establishments to ensure that staffing is matched to patient acuity and demand.

The report said: "All staff have been offered a 1:1 discussion to check their intentions as part of the return of a full service.

"We are now matching staff to the relevant roles, and recruiting as required."

It continued: "Following a long period of service suspension, a significant number of nursing vacancies developed at Grantham, partly due to turnover but also due to other opportunities which arose over that period within the Trust.

"A Trust-wide task group led by the Deputy Director of Nursing is working to fill these vacancies within surgical

and medical wards. "The surgical service is already functioning well and vacancies can be filled gradually to match the steady increase in volumes of surgery. "The medical service requires the greater level of focus and there will be a need for short term measures to support the initial service as we build a fully substantive

workforce.

The report added: "The Trust has been successful in implementing a large-scale recruitment process for the Trust as a whole and this learning is being drawn upon to support the filling of these posts.

"As part of the overall approach, recruitment will also be initiated for the third medical ward, which will open once enhancement works have been undertaken, in time for the expected growth in emergency pressures in the autumn.

"This position is developing by the day and further updates can be provided as required at the Trust Board meeting."

The full agenda and related reports can be found here.