Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Headquarters Barnsley
NHS region NHS Yorkshire
Type NHS hospital trust
Chair Stephen Wragg
Chief Exec Dr Richard Jenkins
Website www.barnsleyhospital.nhs.uk

Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust runs a 500 bed hospital in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. It became a Foundation Trust in 2005.

G4S Integrated Services (G4S) was awarded a three-year contract in March 2014 to deliver healthcare cleaning services at the hospital.[1]

In May 2014 it emerged that the Trust, after being investigated for “financial irregularities” was in the red to the tune of £7.4m after repeated failure to hit national accident-and-emergency targets which resulted in the trust spending 10% more than expected.[2] Jane Ashby the finance director was sacked in December 2014 after it was discovered that one-off income had been misrepresented in the accounts and that predicted cost savings were over-stated at £6m when they amounted to only £2m. The trust expects to be in deficit of £12 million in April 2015.[3] The trust has been threatened with “cessation of the supply of key drugs, doctors from the trust’s preferred medical locum agency and catering” by suppliers because of its financial situation.[4]

In 2014/5 the trust was given a loan of £18.5 million by the Department of Health which is supposed to be paid back in five years.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "G4S Integrated Services wins Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Cleaning Contract". G4S. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
  2. ↑ "Health emergency: Time for a radical solution". Yorkshire Post. 8 May 2014. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
  3. ↑ "NHS finance chief sacked over ‘irregularities’ at hospital". Yorkshire Post. 23 December 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  4. ↑ "Bailouts top £870m as trusts struggle to pay bills". Local Government Chronicle. 22 June 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  5. ↑ "11 trusts whose DH bailouts were converted to loans". Health Service Journal. 2 September 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
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