Russells Hall Hospital boss must go, say MPs
Dudley's four MPs have called for the chair of governors at the trust that runs Russells Hall Hospital to resign in the wake of serious failings in the hospital's A&E department.
In a letter to the governors at the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, the MPs said they had lost faith in the ability of Jenni Ord to hold the hospital's leadership to account.
Russells Hall Hospital's A&E department has been rated 'inadequate' in a scathing report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), while dozens of deaths there are being investigated in an independent inquiry.
The letter has been signed by Tory MPs Mike Wood (Dudley South), Margot James (Stourbridge) and James Morris (Halesowen and Rowley Regis), and Dudley North's Labour MP Ian Austin.
The MPs say they believe a new chair is required to ensure that drastic improvements outlined in the CQC report are carried out as a matter of urgency.
