Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS trust based in Salisbury that covers South Wiltshire, North and East Dorset and South West Hampshire. It gained Foundation trust status in 2006. It includes Salisbury District Hospital.

Type of Trust
NHS hospital trust
Trust Details
Last annual budget
Employees
Chair Nick Marsden
Chief Executive Cara Charles-Barks
Links
Website Salisbury District Hospital
Care Quality Commission reports CQC
Monitor Monitor

The trust's chairman since 2014, Nick Marsden, was previously deputy chairman at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.[1]

In 2013 the trust established a subsidiary company, Salisbury Trading Limited, providing laundry services, to which 77 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.[2]

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/

In September 2014 the trust was placed in the top 100 healthcare employers in the country by the Best Companies Group on the basis of a staff survey on quality of leadership, staff communications, training and development and the working environment.[3] 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 2752 full time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.37%. 83% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 75% recommended it as a place to work.[4]

The trust decided to implement a Lorenzo patient record system in August 2015. It expects cash releasing savings of £12m over 10 years.[5]

In March 2016 the Trust was ranked fifth in the Learning from Mistakes League.[6]

See also

References
  1. "Hospital chairman retires". Salisbury Journal. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
  2. "In full: Trusts with staff transfer plans". Health Service Journal. 14 February 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  3. "Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust placed in top 100 healthcare employers in country". Blackmore Vale Magazine. 9 September 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  4. "HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015". Health Service Journal. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  5. "Salisbury NHS signs up to Lorenzo electronic patient record system". Computer Weekly. 21 August 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
  6. "Trusts ranked in 'learning from mistakes' league". Health Service Journal. 9 March 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
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