East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
| Type of Trust | |
|---|---|
| NHS hospital trust | |
| Trust Details | |
| Last annual budget | £360 million |
| Employees | 7500 |
| Chair | Stuart Welling |
| Chief Executive | Darren Grayson |
| Links | |
| Website | East Sussex Healthcare |
| Care Quality Commission reports | CQC |
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust runs Conquest Hospital in St Leonards-on-Sea, Eastbourne District General Hospital, Bexhill Hospital, Lewes Victoria Hospital, Rye Memorial Hospital, Crowborough Birthing Centre, and Uckfield Community Hospital, all in East Sussex, England.
The trust announced in November 2012 that stroke services should be centralised on the Eastbourne District General Hospital site and emergency and higher risk planned general surgery, and emergency and higher risk planned orthopaedics would be located at the Conquest Hospital.[1]
Campaigners have started a petition for Crowborough Birthing Centre, which was temporarily shut in November 2013 to be run by Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust to keep services near where they live.[2]
In December 2013 the Trust was one of thirteen hospital trusts named by Dr Foster Intelligence as having higher than expected higher mortality indicator scores for the period April 2012 to March 2013 in their Hospital Guide 2013.[3]
The Trust predicts a deficit of £19.4m in 2013-14.[4]
In April 2014 High Weald Lewes Havens Clinical Commissioning Group served 12 months’ notice on their £18m a year community services contract with the Trust because of concerns about “the access to and consistency of NHS community services”. A report to the commissioner’s March board meeting mentioned “ad hoc and unnotified” closures of the trust’s minor injury service, “inequitable access” to district nursing, and “intermittent closure” of a midwifery-led unit. The CCG says the financial problems of the Trust could mean “there is a risk that the provider may seek to take short term decisions that reduce the equitable provision of community services to save cost. Equally, there is a risk that services could be deemed, ‘unsafe’ because of staffing issues.”[5] The CCGs in Eastbourne and Hastings are continuing their contracts with the Trust, but High Weald are putting their community services contract out to tender.[6]
The Care Quality Commission raised concerns over outpatient records and surgical practices at Eastbourne District General Hospital after an inspection in September 2014. It also found that safety and leadership was inadequate.[7]
See also
References
- ↑ "Green light for East Sussex reconfiguration plans". Health Service JOurnal. 23 November 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
- ↑ "Crowborough Birthing Centre closure sparks protest". BBC News. 3 November 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
- ↑ "Dr Foster identifies 13 trusts with high mortality ratios". Health Service Journal. 6 December 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
- ↑ "More than a third of trusts predict year-end deficit". Local Government Chronicle. 13 March 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
- ↑ "Commissioner serves notice on East Sussex contract over quality concerns". Health Service Journal. 3 April 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
- ↑ "Huge changes to Crowborough and Uckfield hospitals could be on the way". Kent and Sussex Courier. 14 October 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
- ↑ "CQC: Eastbourne District General Hospital 'inadequate'". BBC News. 27 March 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2015.