Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Made foundation 2012
Region served Hampshire and West Berkshire
Population Approx. 600,000 [1]
Type NHS Foundation Trust
Budget £320 million (2012/13)
Hospitals 3
Chair Elizabeth Padmore
Chief Exec Mary Edwards
Website www.hhft.nhs.uk

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT) is an NHS Foundation Trust providing services in Hampshire and parts of west Berkshire.[1] It was established in January 2012 as the result of the integration of Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust and Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare Trust. It runs Andover War Memorial Hospital (AWMH), Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospitatal (BNHH) and Royal Hampshire County Hospital. (RHCH) The Trust also runs a private hospital on the same site as BNHH - the Candover Clinic.

Structure

HHFT employs approximately 5,000 staff.[1] As an NHS Foundation Trust, HHFT is accountable to the public through a Council of Governors elected by members of the Trust. Anyone can become a member of a Foundation Trust for free.[2]

The Trust's clinical services are organised into three divisions: surgical services, medical services and Family and Clinical Support Service. Each division is led by a medical director who is supported by an operations director.

Surgical services

The Surgical Services division is led by Myrddin Rees with Karen Brimacombe as the operations director. The sub-specialties of Surgical services are:[3]

Surgery

Cancer

Anaesthetics/critical care

Medical services

The Medical Services division is led by Carl Brookes with Karen Brimacombe as the operations director. The sub-specialties of Surgical services are:[4]

Unscheduled Care

Specialty Medicine and Therapies

Long Term Conditions

Family and Clinical Support Services

The Surgical Services division is led by Jeremy Hogg with Diane Blanchard as the operations director. The sub-specialties of Surgical services are:[5]

Women's services

Consulting facilities

Performance

Like many NHS hospitals the Trust has had difficulty in meeting the national target in its emergency department which has seen a rise of nearly 8% in patient numbers in the last year.[6] In the year 2015/2016, HHFT failed this target which aims to see 95% of patients admitted to A&E discharged or admitted within 4 hours.[7] The trust spent £4 million on agency staff in 2014/5.[8]

The Trust is planning a new Critical Treatment Hospital to be built alongside a new £18.5m cancer treatment centre, on land at North Waltham, Hampshire. It would have a centralised obstetric labour unit and midwifery-led birthing centre, paediatric ward, central pathology laboratory, ambulance station, energy centre and a helicopter landing pad.[9] The total cost of delivering the hospital is expected to be £150 million, of which £120 million is the cost of building.[10] Kier Group is the preferred bidder. Work will start on site in April 2016.[11]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 HHFTAbout. "About us - Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust". www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk. Retrieved 2016-07-16.
  2. "What is a Foundation Trust? - Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust". www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk. Retrieved 2016-07-16.
  3. "Surgical Services - Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust". www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk. Retrieved 2016-07-16.
  4. "Medical Services - Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust". www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk. Retrieved 2016-07-16.
  5. "Family and Clinical Support Services - Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust". www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk. Retrieved 2016-07-16.
  6. "Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust failed to meet Government A and E targets". Southern Daily Echo. 9 December 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  7. "Annual General Meetings - Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust". www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk. Retrieved 2016-08-15.
  8. "Agency spending: the real picture". Health Service Journal. 26 November 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  9. "Critical Treatment Hospital and cancer treatment centre to be built at North Waltham". Basingstoke Gazette. 21 December 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  10. "New Hampshire hospital vital for health trust". Hampshire Chronicle. 12 September 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  11. "Kier wins £250m of health deals including Hampshire hospital design-and-build job". Construction News. 16 June 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
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