Humber NHS Foundation Trust

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health, learning disability, community and addictions services to people in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.It employs nearly 3000 staff.

It was the first Mental Health Trust to use Lorenzo patient record systems part of the now discredited NPfIT.

The hospital closed 18 of its 30 beds in July 2013 at East Riding Community Hospital in Beverley after a Care Quality Commission report said 65% of its nurses were "not fully competent", but at an unannounced inspection in October 2013 it was found to have met the required standards.^[1]

In 2014 CQC inspectors found there were long waiting times for children and young people and that the Trust was failing to meet four-hour targets for urgent referrals. Children requiring speech and language therapy were also facing long delays for treatment.^[2]

In September 2016 the trust announced the appointment of a new Chief Executive, Michele Moran, previously chief executive of the crisis-hit Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust which collapsed due to financial problems and had to be taken over by the neighbouring Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.^[3] The appointment of Michele Moran was criticised by local MP Lucy Powell as an example of "the NHS revolving door syndrome... I think the public would, rightly, ask whether someone who has just overseen such difficulty should just walk straight into another highly paid job.”^[4]

In 2017 the trust appointed a new medical director John Byrne^[5], previously Clinical Director at Southern Health from 2011-2014, a period in which an NHS England audit found evidence of a failure to investigate more than 1000 deaths due to a "failure of leadership"^[6], eventually resulting in the trust being convicted in criminal court for "systemic failures" leading to the deaths of two patients in 2012 and 2014.^[7]

See also

• List of NHS trusts

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