Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

A Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Headquarters
The Trust's headquarters on Oxford Road, Manchester

Central Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (CMFT) runs eight hospitals in Manchester and Trafford: Manchester Royal Infirmary, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and University Dental Hospital of Manchester in Manchester, and Trafford General Hospital, Altrincham Hospital and Stretford Memorial Hospital in Trafford.

It is a teaching hospital of the School of Medicine, University of Manchester and one of the Shelford Group. Sir Mike Deegan has been Chief Executive since 2001.[1] He was reckoned by the Health Service Journal to be the 54th most influential person in the English NHS in 2015.[2]

Sites

The Trust constructed one of the biggest Private Finance Initiative schemes in the NHS, designed by Anglo-American architects Anshen Dyer and developed by Lend Lease Group. Non-clinical services are run by Sodexo (formerly Sodexho) whose contract runs until 2042.[3]

On the same site since summer 2009 are the new Children's Hospital, St Mary's Hospital (Maternity and Babies), the new wing of Manchester Royal Infirmary, and the new Eye Hospital (one of the largest teaching hospitals for ophthalmology in Europe).[4] It is possible to access one hospital from the others without going outside. A link bridge links the old St Mary's Hospital building with its own new wing, the Eye Hospital, the Children's Hospital and the new wing of the Royal Infirmary.[5]

The Children's Hospital contains 371 beds and is the largest free-standing children's hospital in the UK.[6]

The trust has one of the 11 Genomics Medicines Centres associated with Genomics England which will open across England in February 2014. All the data produced in the 100,000 Genomes project will be made available to drugs companies and researchers to help them create precision drugs for future generations.[7]

Problems associated with doctors' illegible handwriting were highlighted in a Care Quality Commission report in May 2014, which also criticised the food as not being healthy enough and lacking variety. The Trust are hoping to move to an Electronic patient record system.[8]

The three Trafford hospitals run by Trafford Healthcare Trust were taken over by CMFT in 2012.

The shared site on Oxford Road

MRI, MREH, St Mary's and RMCH share a large site between Oxford Road and Upper Brook Street in Manchester, close to the Manchester Medical School (part of the University of Manchester) and much less close to Manchester Metropolitan University.

Services

The Manchester Diabetic Centre was established in 1988 by Professor Stephen Tomlinson and Jill Pooley, one of the first diabetes specialist nurses in the country. It was deliberately sited outside the main hospital building on Hathersage Road at the southern end of the Oxford Road site. It included other paramedics such as chiropodists and dieticians so it could deliver a one-stop shop for diabetic care. Tomlinson argued that the new way of providing care would prevent secondary conditions such as diabetic foot.

The Manchester Sickle Cell Centre was established in 1984 - also off the main site, on the opposite side of Oxford Road from the main building. It was renamed as the Sickle-Cell and Thalassaemia Centre in 1991.[9]

As the leading provider of tertiary and specialist healthcare services in Manchester, the Trust treats more than a million patients every year. On 1 April 2011, community services previously provided by the Primary Care Trust transferred to this Trust.

It is one of the biggest provider of specialised services in England, which generated an income of £334.7 million in 2014/5.[10]

Relationship with private sector

The Trust uses BMI Healthcare's Alexandra Hospital in Cheadle, Greater Manchester to help with elective surgery capacity problems, usually in the winter. This often involves the same surgeon working on a Sunday. It also uses spare capacity in their Cath lab.[11]

Performance

The trust expects to finish 2015-16 with a deficit of more than £23 million as a result of changes to the NHS tariff.[12]

It was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 11,534 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 5.07%. 67% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 62% recommended it as a place to work.[13]

The trust recruited 275 nurses in India in the summer of 2015 to help fill 550 vacancies but says that “difficulties in the pre-employment and migration processes required to bring the nurses into the UK” have prevented most of them from arriving because the certificates of sponsorship expired before the required checks could be completed.[14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Sir Michael Deegan CBE - Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust". Shelford Group. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "HSJ100 2015". Health Service Journal. 23 November 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Central Manchester Hospitals". Lend Lease. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  4. ↑ The new hospital development
  5. ↑ Satellite image from Google Maps
  6. ↑ Manchester Children's Hospital
  7. ↑ "NHS DNA scheme to fight cancer and genetic diseases". BBC News. 22 December 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  8. ↑ "Doctors' handwriting putting patients at risk, health watchdog says". Manchester Evening News. 15 May 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  9. ↑ Valier, Helen; Bivins, Roberta (2002). Organisation, ethnicity and the British National Health Service. in in Jennifer Stanton ed. Innovations in Health and Medicine: Diffusion and resistance in the twentieth century: Routledge.
  10. ↑ "Analysed: The biggest NHS providers of specialised services". Health Service Journal. 16 October 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  11. ↑ "Commissioning supplement: External providers can lend a hand". Health Service Journal. 19 March 2015. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  12. ↑ "Rollover tariff trusts expect massive deficits". Health Service Journal. 26 May 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  13. ↑ "HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015". Health Service Journal. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  14. ↑ "Immigration rules derail major nurse recruitment plans". Health Service Journal. 9 October 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2015.

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Coordinates: 53°27′40″N 2°13′40″W / 53.46115°N 2.2279°W / 53.46115; -2.2279

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