Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

Type of Trust
NHS hospital trust
Trust Details
Last annual budget
Employees 3,300
Chair Richard Fraser
Chief Executive Silas Nicholls
Website Southport and Ormskirk
Care Quality Commission reports CQC

Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust is the principal healthcare provider to 258,000 people across Southport, Formby and West Lancashire. Further details about the Trust can be found in the 2016/17 annual report.

Services

The Trust provides care at Southport and Formby District General Hospital and Ormskirk and District General Hospital.[1] Around 2,600 babies are born each year at the maternity unit at Ormskirk each year.

The Trust's adult community care and walk-in service contracts in West Lancashire were awarded to Virgin Care in autumn 2016. The Southport and Formby contracts were awarded to Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust. Both contracts become effective from May 2017.[2]

The Trust is the home of the North West Regional Spinal Injuries Centre[3] which provides specialist care for spinal patients from across the North West, North Wales and the Isle of Man. The centre, which is an internationally recognised centre of excellence for the treatment of people who require permanent mechanical ventilation following spinal cord injury, admits patients from across the United Kingdom for this highly specialised care.

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/

The Trust was rated "requirements improvement" following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission in April 2018.[4]

Chief executive Jonathan Parry, Chief Operating Officer Sheilah Finnegan, and Sharon Partington, Director of Human Resources, were all excluded from work in August 2015 after complaints by whistleblowers relating to a "serious employment issue".[5] Partington subsequently resigned. Parry was dismissed and Finnegan was cleared but retired.[6]

History

In 1948 there were seven hospitals in Southport: Southport General Infirmary, the Promenade Hospital, Greaves Hall Hospital, Fleetwood Road Hospital, New Hall Hospital run by Ramsay Health Care UK and, for maternity services, St Katherine’s and the Christiana Hartley unit.

The present organisation was formed by merging acute services in Southport and Ormskirk in 1999. NHS community services were acquired from the former NHS Sefton and NHS Central Lancashire Primary Care Trusts in April 2011.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "NHS - Southport & Ormskirk NHS Hospital Trust - About Us". Southportandormskirk.nhs.uk. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
  2. ↑ "Virgin wins contracts worth £65m". Health Service Journal. 22 November 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  3. ↑ "Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust - Spinal Injuries Homepage". Southportandormskirk.nhs.uk. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
  4. ↑ "Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust". www.cqc.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
  5. ↑ "Southport and Ormskirk NHS bosses suspended following complaints". BBC News. 4 August 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  6. ↑ "Trust director would have been sacked for 'gross misconduct'". Health Service Journal. 11 November 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
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