Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

Type of Trust
NHS hospital trust
Trust Details
Last annual budget
Employees 5000
Chair Professor Peter Latchford OBE
Chief Executive Simon Wright
Links
Website Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital
Care Quality Commission reports CQC

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, Bridgnorth Community Hospital, Oswestry Maternity Unit, Ludlow Community Hospital, and Wrekin Community Clinic, Euston House, Telford, in Shropshire, England.

It is one of a small number of English NHS Trusts which takes patients from over the border in Wales.

Like many Trusts operating over several sites it is under pressure to concentrate services on fewer sites.[1]

Performance

The trust’s poor safety culture and defensive attitude towards complaints was criticised in a report into the death of Kate Stanton-Davies, who was born in a midwifery led unit in Ludlow in March 2009.[2]

The trust was one of 44 across Britain identified by the Care Quality Commission in 2013 as "high risk" for patients, although it was not among the 24 placed in the highest band of risk.[3]

In January 2014 it was forced to look to the NHS Trust Development Authority for £4 million on the basis that the trust would be able to balance its budget by the end of March but Board member Dennis Jones said the bailout would not solve the underlying financial problems at the trust, which has been running at a loss over several years.[4] In January 2017 it was reported that its financial troubles were such that its sandwich supplier refused to accept delayed payments.[5]

The Trust did poorly in the 2015 cancer patient experience survey and has agreed to pair up with St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which did very well, in a scheme intended to “spread and accelerate innovative practice via peer to peer support and learning”.[6]

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 Virginia Mason Medical Center to assist English using their 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.” [7]

It was singled out by the West Midlands Ambulance Service as one of two in the region responsible for the most serious delays in ambulance turn around times in 2016.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Growing concern over NHS services shake-up in Shropshire". Shropshire Star. 21 October 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
  2. ↑ "Trust's poor culture and defensive attitude criticised after baby death". Health Service Journal. 4 April 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "Officials defend Shrewsbury and Telford hospitals over 'at risk' list". Shropshire Star. 25 October 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
  4. ↑ "Shropshire hospitals in plea for £4 million bailout". Shropshire Star. 31 January 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  5. ↑ "Shrewsbury and Telford hospitals 'struggling to pay sandwich bill'". BBC News. 18 January 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  6. ↑ "'Pioneering' cancer care buddying scheme launched". Health Service Journal. 20 February 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "US corporation brought in to help improve five trusts". Nursing Times. 16 July 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  8. ↑ "Trust sought millions in compensation for 'horrendous' handover delays". Health Service Journal. 23 January 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
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