INSPECTORS are due to go back into Bootham Park Hospital in the next couple of days to assess whether parts of it can be reopened. 

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has received a written request from the Tees, Esk & Wear Valley NHS Trust to reopen Bootham Hospital's facilities for its hundreds of outpatients and to reopen the £400,000 place of safety, a unit for vulnerable people detained by the police.

The Press understands some 16 consultants from Bootham Park Hospital have also signed a letter addressed to CQC management calling to reopen the outpatient and place of safety facilities. 

CQC inspectors are subsequently due to return to the site with a view to partially reopening the facilities and re-registering the hospital. Regardless of the outcome, it is understood inpatient facilities will not be allowed to reopen. 

York Outer MP Julian Sturdy said he was hopeful outpatient facilities would be re-opened at Bootham Park. 

York Central MP Rachael Maskell was this evening due to speak with Alistair Burt, minister for community social care, to call for an inquiry into what has happened to allow the situation at Bootham Park Hospital to occur.