Black Country doctors back vote of no confidence in management

Doctors at a Black Country mental health trust have backed a vote of no confidence in their management team.

Sources say that the Black Country Healthcare NHS Trust is not acting in the best interests of patients and they believe it wants to cut beds.

They also have no confidence in the way that the trust has removed its chief medical officer, Mark Weaver.

The NHS Trust said it was aware of concerns and had agreed to work on them going forward.

The doctors wrote to the trust board following a meeting of the Medical Advisory Committee claiming that over the past two years the relationship with the board had become fractured.

In the letter they claimed the voice of doctors was not being taken seriously by the board and that clinical priorities were secondary to financial performance.

They also said they were seriously disturbed with the way in which Mr Weaver had been asked to step down and that the deputy chief medical officer Dr Sharada Abilash had not been asked to take over while due process occurred.

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Source: BBC News, 9 December 2023