Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1st October 2014 by the acquisition of Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust by Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the first ever merger of two Foundation Trusts.

It runs Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot, Wexham Park Hospital near Slough, Berkshire, England, and Frimley Park Hospital in Frimley, Surrey.

According to Andrew Morris, the chief executive, the trust has secured "vital new funding" to build both a new emergency room, as well as a care unit for infants and mothers, at Wexham Park. The Trust plans to build an elective centre at the Heatherwood location. [1] The three Berkshire Clinical commissioning groups complained that they had been asked to provide £11m extra funding to support the trust’s “integration costs” over the next few years, in addition to normal payments for activity.[2]

In March 2015 the Department of Health agreed a package of support to the new Trust: £127.2m of public dividend capital and £59m of loan funding to support rebuilding and refurbishment of parts of the Heatherwood site. It is planned to save £8m by sharing buildings and to make £28m from selling land at Heatherwood Hospital. The merged organisation is expected to run a deficit until 2020-21 and meeting this brings the total cost of financial support for the merger to £328 million.[3]

Morris was knighted in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to the NHS.

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Frimley Health

References

  1. ↑ "Four-county Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust officially launched". BBC News. 1 October 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "CCG leaders attack ‘unjustifiable’ funding differences". Health Service Journal. 24 October 2014. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "FT to receive £328m as part of takeover of neighbour". Health Service Journal. 13 March 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2015.