Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
| Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust | |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Queen's Hospital, Romford |
| Coordinates | 51°34′09″N 0°10′44″E / 51.5691°N 0.1789°ECoordinates: 51°34′09″N 0°10′44″E / 51.5691°N 0.1789°E |
| Region served | North East London |
| NHS region | London |
| Type | NHS Hospital Trust |
| Establishments | |
| Chair | Dr Maureen Dalziel |
| Chief Exec | Matthew Hopkins |
| Website |
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Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) is the organisation that runs NHS hospitals in the outer north east London boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge.
It operates two main hospitals: King George Hospital in Ilford, Redbridge and Queen's Hospital in Romford. It also operates clinics at sites in the nearby area including Barking Hospital and Brentwood Community Hospital.[1]
The Trust serves around 750,000 people from a variety of backgrounds and across a wide area, making it one of the largest in the country.[2]
It has a Hyper Acute Stroke Unit, a regional centre for neurosurgery, one of the busiest cancer centres in London and a maternity service delivering around 8,000 babies a year.
Performance
In December 2013 it was placed in special measures by the Care Quality Commission.
Inspectors returned to the Trust in March 2015 and highlighted areas of "outstanding care" and improvements in a number of areas, including leadership. The Trust remained in special measures with ongoing challenges around governance and performance. A further re-inspection is expected in early 2016.
The Trust met its financial target in 2014-15, and is on course to do so again in 2015-16, with a planned deficit of £34m.
Its performance against the national 4-hour standard for emergency care improved dramatically during 2015-16. While the Trust had been among the worst performers in the country at one point, it is now one of the best in London. It hosted a conference in 2015, giving other struggling trusts an insight into the work which had taken place to turn performance around.
The Trust was one of five to benefit from a five-year, £12.5m programme announced by Jeremy Hunt in July 2015 to bring in the Virginia Mason Institute from Seattle to help the Trust to use its clinical engagement and culture tools including the Patient Safety Alert System and electronic dashboard. Hunt said: “The achievements at Virginia Mason over the past decade are truly inspirational and I’m delighted they will now help NHS staff to learn the lessons that made their hospital one of the safest in the world – patients will see real benefits as a result.” [3]
It is also one of eight new, national, vanguard sites which will help spearhead transformational change in urgent care across the country, and part of the development of a new Accountable Care Organisation for outer north east London.
Management
- Chief Executive Matthew Hopkins joined BHRUT on 1 April 2014, following the retirement of previous Chief Executive Averil Dongworth. He was previously Chief Executive at Epsom and St Helier Hospitals Trust[4]
- Chair Dr Maureen Dalziel [5] stepped up as a Board Member to become Interim Chair after the previous Trust Chair Sir Peter Dixon resigned in March 2014.
See also
References
- ↑ "Our Health Centres". Retrieved 10 March 2011.
- ↑ "Our Profile". Retrieved 10 March 2011.
- ↑ "US corporation brought in to help improve five trusts". Nursing Times. 16 July 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
- ↑ "New Chief Executive Announcement". Barking Havering and Redbridge Hospitals Trust. 18 March 2014. Retrieved 21 Jan 2015.
- ↑ "New Interim Chair for Trust". Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust. 24 Feb 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
External links
- BHR Hospitals - Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS homepage
- BHR Hospitals -Trust Members