Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Made foundation 2012
Region served Hampshire and West Berkshire
Population 570,000 (approx.)[1]
Type NHS Foundation Trust
Budget £385.4 million (2016/17)
Hospitals 3
Chair Elizabeth Padmore
Chief Exec Alex Whitfield
Number of employees 6000 (approx.)[1]
Website www.hhft.nhs.uk

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT) is an NHS Foundation Trust providing services in Hampshire and parts of west Berkshire.[1] 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 (AWMH), Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital (BNHH) and Royal Hampshire County Hospital. (RHCH) The Trust also runs a private hospital on the same site as BNHH - the Candover Clinic.

Structure

HHFT employs approximately 5,000 staff.[1] 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.[2]

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.[3]

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.

Surgical services

The Surgical Services division is led by Myrddin Rees with Karen Brimacombe as the operations director. The sub-specialties of Surgical services are:[4]

Surgery

  • Upper gastrointestinal surgery
  • Lower gastrointestinal surgery
  • Urology
  • Ear, Nose and Throat surgery
  • Ophthalmology
  • Oral surgery
  • Pseudomyxoma unit
  • Vascular surgery

Cancer

  • Oncology
  • Clinical haematology
  • Palliative care

Anaesthetics/critical care

  • Anaesthetics
  • Critical care
  • Theatres

Medical services

The Medical Services division is led by Carl Brookes with Karen Brimacombe as the operations director. The sub-specialties of Surgical services are:[5]

Unscheduled Care

  • Emergency department (A&E)
  • Acute medicine

Specialty Medicine and Therapies

  • Cardiology
  • Diabetes
  • Endocrinology
  • Respiratory
  • Gastroenterology
  • Therapy services

Long Term Conditions

  • Elderly care
  • Dermatology
  • Neurology
  • Rheumatology
  • Haemophilia

Family and Clinical Support Services

The Surgical Services division is led by Jeremy Hogg with Diane Blanchard as the operations director. The sub-specialties of Surgical services are:[6]

Women's services

  • Maternity
  • Gynecology
  • Breast surgery

Consulting facilities

  • Outpatients
  • Medical records
  • Pharmacy

Performance

Four-hour target in the emergency department quarterly figures from NHS England Data from https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/

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 the last year.[7] 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.[8] The trust spent £4 million on agency staff in 2014/5.[9]

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.[10] The total cost of delivering the hospital was expected to be £150 million, of which £120 million was the cost of building.[11] The project was halted by the local Clinical commissioning groups in November 2017 citing concerns that it was not affordable.[12]

In December 2017, plans were announced for the building of the Winchester Hospice. This would be a 10 bedded hospice based in Winchester due to open in early 2019.[13][14]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "About us - Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust". www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  2. ↑ "What is a Foundation Trust? - Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust". www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "In full: Trusts with staff transfer plans". Health Service Journal. 14 February 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  4. ↑ "Surgical Services - Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust". www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  5. ↑ "Medical Services - Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust". www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  6. ↑ "Family and Clinical Support Services - Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust". www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  7. ↑ "Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust failed to meet Government A and E targets". Southern Daily Echo. 9 December 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  8. ↑ "Annual General Meetings - Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust". www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  9. ↑ "Agency spending: the real picture". Health Service Journal. 26 November 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  10. ↑ "Critical Treatment Hospital and cancer treatment centre to be built at North Waltham". Basingstoke Gazette. 21 December 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  11. ↑ "New Hampshire hospital vital for health trust". Hampshire Chronicle. 12 September 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  12. ↑ "Transforming Care Services". Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  13. ↑ Griffiths, Ella (1 December 2017). "New hospice plans for Winchester discussed for first time". Hampshire Chronicle.
  14. ↑ "Winchester Hospice". Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
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