East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

Type of Trust
NHS hospital trust
Trust Details
Last annual budget £350 million
Employees 5000
Chair Ian Morfett
Chief Executive Nick Carver
Links
Website East and North Hertfordshire
Care Quality Commission reports

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust was created in April 2000, by merger of the former East Hertfordshire and North Hertfordshire NHS trusts. It runs Lister Hospital (Stevenage), Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Hertford County Hospital, Bedford Dialysis Unit and Harlow Renal Unit

The Trust took over the Lister Surgicentre from Clinicenta, a subsidiary of Carillion in September 2013 after the centre was severely criticised by the Care Quality Commission and local MPs.[1] The revenue cost of the take over to the Trust is said to be £2.3 million. The Department of Health paid £53 million for the premises.[2]

Performance

The trust’s best performance since it was founded, achieving virtually every national clinical, operational and financial standard set was during 2010/11. Trust chief executive Nick Carver said: “Patients coming to our hospitals today now have a shorter wait for their treatment than in previous years, are unlikely to have their procedure cancelled at the last minute and will be discharged as planned. The chances of their becoming infected with something like MRSA or Clostridium difficile have plummeted, and the quality and range of clinical services provided through our hospitals has improved considerably.[3] ”

It spent 7.8% of its total turnover on agency staff in 2014/5.[4]

In the last quarter of 2015 it had one of the worst performances of any hospital in England against the four hour waiting target.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Trust faces £2m bill to take over treatment centre". Health Service Journal. 7 October 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  2. ↑ "NHS trust faces £2 million costs after Surgicentre takeover in Stevenage". Comet 24. 31 October 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  3. ↑ "East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust achieves best ever results". Welwyn Hatfield Times. 20 May 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  4. ↑ "Agency spending: the real picture". Health Service Journal. 26 November 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  5. ↑ "Thirty worst A&E trusts called to London summit". Health Service Journal. 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
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