Paediatric Service Public Consultation

Pilgrim Hospital

Welcome to the launch of a public consultation around the future of the children’s (paediatric) service at Pilgrim Hospital in Boston.

For a number of years, the hospital’s paediatric service faced challenges due to staffing shortages.

This resulted in the service model being adapted from a children’s inpatient ward to a 12-hour Paediatric Assessment Unit on a temporary basis in August 2018.

Since then, the service has been developed further and has now become an example of best practice, offering an early assessment model without any constraints on length of stay. This has enabled the vast majority of Boston-area children to be cared for at the hospital whilst delivering a lower length of stay than prior to 2018.

The public consultation is about confirming this as the permanent model for the service (subject to public support), to give certainty around the long term future of the service, to help with staff recruitment and also ensure ongoing support for Boston-area children and their families.

You are invited to share your views on the proposals, and to encourage any colleagues, friends or other interested parties to do the same.

Please click this link to see an outline of the proposals, and detail of how you can have your say to help us in making a decision about the future of these services.

Details are also available on our Trust website.