Health jobs transferred in shake-up

Under the new arrangements, NHS staff directly providing services to older people, children and vulnerable adults, who work for the county's primary care trust (PCT), will in future be employed by local hospitals.

NHS North Yorkshire and York and all the other PCTs in the country will continue to pay for services but no longer run them.

Front-line PCT staff, including community nurses, physiotherapists, specialist nurses and health visitors, will get new NHS employers.

The Department of Health asked local NHS bosses to agree which organisations should take over the services.

NHS North Yorkshire and York's board recommended that its preferred providers should be the local healthcare trusts – Airedale, Harrogate, South Tees, York, and the smallest of the five trusts, Scarborough.

It was confirmed yesterday that the transfer will go ahead with all of the trusts apart from Scarborough.

The PCT board agreed to continue to support Scarborough's application in principle. But PCT bosses been asked to undertake further work during October to confirm Scarborough can measure up to the task.