Royal Surrey County Hospital

Royal Surrey County Hospital
Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Surrey County Hospital
Royal Surrey County Hospital
Shown in Surrey
Geography
Location Guildford, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates 51°14′26″N 0°36′34″W / 51.240542°N 0.60936°W / 51.240542; -0.60936Coordinates: 51°14′26″N 0°36′34″W / 51.240542°N 0.60936°W / 51.240542; -0.60936
Organisation
Care system Public NHS
Hospital type District General
Affiliated university St George's, University of London
Services
Emergency department Yes Accident & Emergency
Beds 520
History
Founded 1863
Links
Website www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk
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The Royal Surrey County Hospital (RSCH) is a 520-bed District General Hospital, located on the fringe of Guildford, run by the Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

History

The foundation stone for the hospital was laid at a site donated by the Earl of Onslow in Farnham Road in Guildford in 1863.[1] The hospital was designed by Edward Ward Lower drawing on the ideas of Florence Nightingale and was opened with 60 beds in 1866.[2] It moved to Egerton Road in Guildford in 1979.[2]

A successful campaign to save the hospital from closure was launched in October 2006.[3]

Facilities

It serves a population of 320,000 for general services and 1,200,000 for cancer services. The Royal Surrey is also a specialist centre for diabetes, ENT and maxillo facial surgery.[4] It is situated close to the University of Surrey allowing it to offer opportunities for research and pioneering treatments such as fibroid embolisation, brachytherapy and minimal access surgery.[4]

The Royal Surrey County Hospital was one of the first NHS Trusts in 1991. It treats over 260,000 patients a year – 56,000 Accident and Emergency, 39,000 in-patients and day-patients and 167,000 outpatients. The Trust's annual income is £199 million.[5]

It employed 3,556 staff in 2014, of which 542 were doctors, and 1,088 nurses and midwives. There are also therapists, scientific and technical and support staff. The Trust has 20 wards comprising general and specialist surgery, obstetrics, paediatrics, oncology, orthopaedics, general and specialist medicine, intensive care and coronary care, with 527 beds in total. There are 12 dedicated surgical theatres, one obstetric and one minor operations theatre and state of the art outpatient, audiology and rehabilitation departments.[5] The trust spent £16.8 million on agency staff in 2014/5.[6]

Guildford and Waverley Clinical Commissioning Group organised a programme of in-reach GPs in 2015, where GPs were placed in wards of the hospital reviewing patients who had been admitted and advising on possibilities for discharge.[7]

Development

In May 2014 it was reported that the Trust was proposing to merge with Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.[8] The proposed merger was abandoned in November 2016. It forecasts a deficit of £7.9 million for 2016–17.[9]

The Royal Surrey County Hospital served as inspiration for the PC game Theme Hospital made by local Guildford developers Bullfrog.[10]

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/

It was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 3141 full time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.08%. 72% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 65% recommended it as a place to work.[11]

As of 2017 one sixth of all posts are vacant. Since January 2016 Royal Surrey missed targets for giving patients X-rays, scans and other diagnostic tests within six weeks. In March 2017 7.4% of patients needing such tests were delayed more than six weeks – way above the 1% target. In 2016–17 6% of patients were not tested on time, among the worst cases in the NHS.[12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford". National Archives. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Royal Surrey celebrates its 150th birthday". Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  3. ↑ "Together in fight to save hospital". Surrey Live. 13 October 2006. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  4. 1 2 "Homepage". Royal Surrey County Hospital. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  5. 1 2 "About Us". Royal Surrey County Hospital. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  6. ↑ "Agency spending: the real picture". Health Service Journal. 26 November 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  7. ↑ Inglesfield, Jonathan (30 November 2015). "GPs can provide the perfect mix for hospitals". Health Service Journal. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  8. ↑ "Ashford and St Peter's chief executive to step down". Health Service Journal. 20 May 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
  9. ↑ "Foundation trusts call off merger". Health Service Journal. 8 November 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
  10. ↑ "The Making of Theme Hospital". Retro Gamer. Bournemouth: Imagine Publishing. No. 130: 46–51. 1 June 2014. ISSN 1742-3155.
  11. ↑ "HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015". Health Service Journal. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  12. ↑ "Revealed: scale of hospital staff shortages in top Tory areas". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
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