Ealing Hospital NHS Trust

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Ealing Hospital
Ealing Hospital NHS Trust
Location
Place Southall Middlesex, Greater London, England, (UK)
Organisation
Care System Public NHS
Hospital Type District General
Affiliated University Imperial College London
Services
Emergency Dept. Yes Accident & Emergency
Beds ~358
History
Founded 1979
Links
Website Ealing Hospital NHS Trust Homepage
See also Hospitals in England

Ealing Hospital, officially called Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, is a general NHS hospital in the Southall district of the London Borough of Ealing, Greater London, England. It lies on the south side of the Uxbridge Road 8.5 miles west of central London. It sits between Southall town to the west and Hanwell to the east. It is built on land that was once part of Hanwell Asylum, now St. Bernard's Hospital which is run by West London Mental Health (NHS) Trust.

The population of the hospital's catchment area is over 300,000. The general hospital has around 358 beds, and employs about 1,620 staff. It operates under the remit of the London Strategic Health Authority as part of the UK National Health Service.

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[edit] History

Ealing Dispensary (1869 - 1871)

Ealing Cottage Hospital and Provident Dispensary (1871 - 1911)

King Edward Memorial Hospital and Provident Hospital (1911 - 1948)

King Edward Memorial Hospital (1948 - 1978)

Ealing District General Unit (1979 – 1992) DGU[›]

Ealing Hospital (NHS) Trust (1992 to present)

The present Ealing District Hospital was built in the late 1970s and opened 5 November 1979. Occupying part of St. Bernard's Hospital former grounds, the whole complex was renamed Ealing Hospital and was administered as one organisation. With countless changes in government policy it has now split off again. It exists as an independent trust (since 1992), with St. Bernard's Hospital now run by West London Mental Health (NHS) Trust which is still the largest - in both directorship and turnover and beds.

[edit] History of Maternity Unit

The original NHS provision for births was Perivale Maternity HospitalPerivale[›], Greenford. With a total of 67 beds and ten cots in a special care baby unit, Ealing residents 'chose' to have 33.5% of their births here at a rate of 1,800 per annum. (Queen Charlotte's Hospital came second with 23.5%). Various working committees agreed that for various reasons it would be better to move the facilities at Perivale to a new maternity unit located on the same site as Ealing General. Thus, on 1 March 1985 a proposal was submitted outlining a number of options together with assessments of relative costs and benefits. The aim was for a 60 beds unit to be able to reach 2,500 deliveries per annum. [1] The new Ealing Maternity Unit opened in March 1988 on the south-west corner of Ealing General. It is built on three levels and has two internal entrances granting direct accesses to the General wing. It underwent major refurbishment in 1996. The Unit now has 40 beds on the postnatal/antenatal wards. Labour Ward has 8 delivery rooms. Close by are 3 midwife delivery rooms. The Special Care Baby Unit has 15 cots and 5 mothers' beds. It is continuously at full capacity at about 2,800 deliveries per year.

[edit] Application for Foundation Trust status

With the issue of yet a new government policy, Ealing Hospital (NHS) Trust has met the minimum requirements laid down and so has been allowed by the Government to apply for Foundation Trust status. Whilst some feel this is the way forwards others think not. [2]

[edit] Worst Hospital in England

In 2008 Ealing hospital trust ended up at the bottom of the 165 trusts in England in a survey of patients' ratings of the level of care. Director of Nursing Paul Reeves said that the data was collected in August 2007 and the trust was addressing the issues with a series of action plans.[3]

[edit] Directorates

  • Corporate
  • Medicine and Accident & Emergency
  • Surgery and critical care
  • Women's and children's health

[edit] Partnerships

The hospital maintains an academic partnership with Hammersmith Hospital (NHS) Trust and Moorfields Eye Hospital (NHS) Foundation Trust. On the same grounds is the Moorfields Eye Hospital Unit which serves as the local opthamic service.

[edit] Notes

^ DGU: This period has gone on to sometimes cause confusion. Owing to the government edict of the day that local psychiatric and maternity services were to be viewed and treated no differently from any other parts of the health service, they demanded that these services to be combined with the services provided by district hospitals. Hence, it became the 'General Unit.' During this time: St. Bernard's Hospital, the (then new) John Conolly Wing and Max Glatt Unit became collectively known as the 'Psychiatric Unit'. The whole complex was called 'Ealing Hospital'. This situation remained until the 'General Unit' and Maternity Unit administration split away to become the Ealing Hospital (NHS) Trust. For some years afterwards, such functions as site care and maintenance was still under the direction of the psychiatric services trusts of St Bernard's Hospital until the new Ealing Hospital NHS Trust started to prepare for Foundation status and became fully autonomous. This confusion has resulted in television crews pointing their cameras at the wrong buildings and delivery vans and juggernauts - having see the sign for St Bernard's 'wing' - going round and round looking for St. Bernard's Main Hospital block but in the adjacent housing estate just to the west.
^ Perivale:  Originally opened 1948 as Perivale Maternity Home, the site eventually had 166 homes built upon it - Notting Hill Housing Trust.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Briggs P W (March 1st 1985) District Medical Officer. Submission of Ealing Health Authority: Maternity – Approval in Principle submission.
  2. ^ Unison. Foundation Trust Watch. Retrieved on 2007-09-15.
  3. ^ London NHS trust 'worst for care'. BBC News (2008-05-14). Retrieved on 2008-05-15.

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