ANOTHER consultant working at a Worcestershire hospital has resigned.

In February four A&E consultants at Redditch’s Alexandra Hospital – the entire team working at the emergency department – along with another from Worcestershire Royal Hospital, handed in their notices on the same day.

Now it has been revealed another consultant at the Alex has handed in their notice.

Speaking at a meeting of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust’s board earlier today acting chief executive Chris Tidman refused to confirm why the unnamed doctor had resigned.

“We have about 280 consultants and in the course of the year some leave and some new ones come,” he said.

But Mr Tidman, who has stepped into the role usually held by the trust’s chief executive Penny Venables, who has been on sick leave since April, said he and his colleagues were working with the consultant to discuss the terms of their resignation and whether they could continue to work with the trust was being explored.

A month after the five consultants resigned a letter signed by the four working at the Alex – named as Richard Morrell, Sarah Crawford, Christopher Hetherington and David Gemmell – was made public, in which they claimed the trust’s management had “undermined” services at the hospital.

But at the time the trust said the consultant’s concerns were not necessarily shared by colleagues throughout the organisation.