Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS foundation trust providing services in Hampshire and parts of west Berkshire.[4] It was established in January 2012 as the result of the integration of Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust and Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare Trust. It runs Andover War Memorial Hospital, Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital and Royal Hampshire County Hospital. (RHCH) The Trust also runs a private hospital on the same site as BNHH - the Candover Clinic.

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
TypeNHS foundation trust
Established9 January 2012
HeadquartersAldermaston Road
Basingstoke
RG24 9NA[1]
Region servedHampshire and West Berkshire
Budget£424.1 million (2018/2019)[2]
Hospitals
Staff5,916 (2019/20)[3]
Websitewww.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk

History

The trust was established on 9 January 2012 following the merger of the Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust and the Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust.[5][6]

Structure

HHFT employs approximately 6,000 staff.[4] As an NHS foundation trust, HHFT is accountable to the public through a Council of Governors elected by members of the Trust. Anyone can become a member of a Foundation Trust for free.[7]

In 2013 the trust established a subsidiary company, Hampshire Hospitals Contract Services Limited, to which 5 estates and facilities staff were transferred. The intention was to achieve VAT benefits, as well as pay bill savings, by recruiting new staff on less expensive non-NHS contracts. VAT benefits arise because NHS trusts can only claim VAT back on a small subset of goods and services they buy. The Value Added Tax Act 1994 provides a mechanism through which NHS trusts can qualify for refunds on contracted out services.[8]

The trust's chief medical officer as of September 2019 is Dr. Lara Alloway (palliative care consultant and medical director), the chief nurse as of September 2018 is Julie Dawes (previously chief nurse and chief executive of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust). The chief financial officer is Malcolm Ace, and the chief operating officer is Julie Maskery.[9][10][11]

The Trust's clinical services are organised into three divisions: surgical services, medical services and Family and Clinical Support Service. Each division is led by a medical director who is supported by an operations director.

Performance

Like many NHS hospitals the Trust has had difficulty in meeting the national target in its emergency department which has seen a rise of nearly 8% in patient numbers in 2014.[12] In the year 2015/2016, HHFT failed this target which aims to see 95% of patients admitted to A&E discharged or admitted within 4 hours.[13] The trust spent £4 million on agency staff in 2014/15.[14]

In the week leading up to Christmas Day 2022, Hampshire Hospitals declared a critical incident at all sites, and was mirrored by South Central Ambulance Service, due to a high demand of patients seeking urgent and emergency care.[15]

Development

In 2014, the Trust announced plans for a new Critical Treatment Hospital to be built alongside a new £18.5m cancer treatment centre, on land at North Waltham, Hampshire. It would have a centralised obstetric labour unit and midwifery-led birthing centre, paediatric ward, central pathology laboratory, ambulance station, energy centre and a helicopter landing pad.[16] The total cost of delivering the hospital was expected to be £150 million, of which £120 million was the cost of building.[17] The project was halted by the local Clinical commissioning groups in November 2017 citing concerns that it was not affordable.[18]

In December 2017, plans were announced for the building of the Winchester Hospice. This would be a 10 bedded hospice based in Winchester.[19][20] The hospice opened in 2021.[21]

In 2021 consultation will begin as part of the Hampshire Together Programme that will involve the upgrade of existing trust infrastructure.[22]

See also

References
  1. "Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust". NHS England. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  2. "Annual Reports and Accounts 2018/19" (PDF). Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust. p. 14.
  3. "Annual Report and Accounts 2019/20" (PDF). Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  4. "About us - Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust". www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  5. "Hampshire hospital trust to serve 600,000 people after merger". BBC News. 9 January 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  6. "The Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 2011". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  7. "What is a Foundation Trust? - Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust". www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  8. "In full: Trusts with staff transfer plans". Health Service Journal. 14 February 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  9. "New chief medical officer takes over at hospitals trust". Andover Advertiser. 13 September 2019. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  10. "Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust gets new nursing chief". Basingstoke Gazette. 11 September 2018. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  11. "Board of Directors". Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  12. "Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust failed to meet Government A and E targets". Southern Daily Echo. 9 December 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  13. "Annual General Meetings - Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust". www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  14. "Agency spending: the real picture". Health Service Journal. 26 November 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  15. "Hampshire hospitals declare critical incident due to high numbers of patients". Basingstoke Gazette. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
  16. "Critical Treatment Hospital and cancer treatment centre to be built at North Waltham". Basingstoke Gazette. 21 December 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  17. "New Hampshire hospital vital for health trust". Hampshire Chronicle. 12 September 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  18. "Transforming Care Services". Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  19. Griffiths, Ella (1 December 2017). "New hospice plans for Winchester discussed for first time". Hampshire Chronicle.
  20. "Building Winchester Hospice has moved a big step closer thanks to major grants from Hampshire County Council and Winchester City Council". Winchester City Council. 18 March 2019. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  21. "New Winchester hospice opens after years in the making". ITV News. 28 September 2021. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
  22. "Home". hampshiretogether.nhs.uk.
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