St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
| Type of Trust | |
|---|---|
| NHS hospital trust | |
| Trust Details | |
| Last annual budget | £230 million |
| Employees | 4000 |
| Chair | Les Howell |
| Chief Executive | Ann Marr |
| Links | |
| Website | St Helens and Knowsley |
| Care Quality Commission reports | CQC |
St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust was formed in 1991. It runs St Helens Hospital and Whiston Hospital, which houses the Mersey Regional Burns and Plastic Surgery Unit.
The Trust has a substantial Private Finance Initiative contract. Innisfree Ltd, VINCI. Medirest and GE are the partners. The 35 year PFI contract is delivered by NewHospitals, a Special Purpose Company formed by Taylor Woodrow and Innisfree.[1]
The Trust was an early adopter of Electronic health records[2] and in 2010 it was the first Trust to stop using paper medical records in clinical practice.[3]
It was an early adopter of Electronic Staff Records after it became the lead employer for approximately 2,300 junior doctors on the Cheshire and Merseyside Deanery programme.[4]
In 2012 the Trust's bid for NHS Foundation Trust status was “escalated” for Department of Health scrutiny, after a series of issues.[5]
The Trust did very well in the 2014 cancer patient experience survey and has agreed to pair up with Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which did badly, in a scheme intended to “spread and accelerate innovative practice via peer to peer support and learning”.[6]
See also
References
- ↑ "St Helens and Knowsley PFI Hospitals Project". Constructing Excellence. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
- ↑ "Trust’s Electronic Records System Wins Public Sector Award". St Helens & Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
- ↑ "Notes that can still be useful". Health Service Journal. 1 November 2013. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
- ↑ "A new ESR case study by St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust". NHS Employers. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
- ↑ "St Helens and Knowsley FT bid 'escalated' to Department of Health". Health Service Journal. 11 September 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- ↑ "'Pioneering' cancer care buddying scheme launched". Health Service Journal. 20 February 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2015.