Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust (formerly Humber NHS Foundation Trust) provides mental health, learning disability, community, children's, primary care and addictions services to people in Hull, North Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It employs nearly 3,000 staff.

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
TypeMental health trust
HeadquartersWillerby Hill, Beverley Road, Willerby, England
Region servedHull, East Riding of Yorkshire
ChairSharon Mays
Chief executiveMichele Moran
Websitewww.humber.nhs.uk

Developments

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

The trust has taken over eight GP practices in North Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire, providing GP services to around 45,000 people.[1]

Management

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.[2] 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".[3]

In 2017 the trust appointed a new medical director John Byrne,[4] previously Clinical Director at Southern Health from 2011 to 2014, a period in which an NHS England audit found evidence of a failure to investigate more than 1,000 deaths due to a "failure of leadership",[5] eventually resulting in the trust being convicted in criminal court for "systemic failures" leading to the deaths of two patients in 2012 and 2014.[6]

Performance

The hospital closed 18 of its 30 beds in July 2013 at East Riding Community Hospital in Beverley after a Care Quality Commission (CQC) 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.[7]

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.[8]

The trust won the mental health provider category in the 2019 Health Service Journal awards.[9]

See also

References
  1. "Foundation trust takes over another GP practice in crisis town". Healthcare Leader. 11 June 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  2. "Chief executive of Manchester's crisis hit mental health trust lands new job - at an even bigger trust". Manchester Evening News. 7 August 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  3. "Struggling mental health trust to be taken over by neighbouring FT". National Health Executive. 11 August 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  4. "Former Southern Health director takes up new executive role". HSJ. 4 September 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  5. "NHS trust 'failed to investigate hundreds of deaths'". BBC News. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  6. "NHS trust fined £2m for Connor Sparrowhawk and Teresa Colvin deaths". The Guardian. 26 March 2018. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  7. "East Riding hospital inspectors say 'great improvements' made". BBC News. 13 November 2013. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
  8. "Children with mental health problems waiting months for support from Humber NHS trust, inspectors find". Hull Daily Mail. 3 October 2014. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
  9. "Mental health trust of the year proves small is beautiful". Health Service Journal. 7 November 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2020.

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