Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Geography
Location London, United Kingdom
Organisation
Care system NHS
Hospital type NHS trust
History
Founded 2007
Links
Website www.imperial.nhs.uk
Lists Hospitals in the United Kingdom

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is an NHS trust based in London, United Kingdom. It is one of the largest NHS trusts in England[1] and together with Imperial College London forms an academic health science centre.

The trust was formed in October 2007 by the merger of Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust and St Mary's NHS Trust and their integration with Imperial College Faculty of Medicine. It currently manages five hospitals: Charing Cross Hospital; Hammersmith Hospital; Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital; St Mary's Hospital and Western Eye Hospital. In 2012/13 Imperial College Healthcare had a turnover of £971.3 million, employed approximately 9,770 people and treated almost 1.2 million patients.[2]

In July 2014 it was revealed that the Trust was intending to sell more than half of Charing Cross hospital, 45% of St Mary’s and the whole of the Western Eye Hospital to raise around 40 per cent of its redevelopment costs. Charing Cross will be replaced with a £150m “local hospital” development offering planned care on an outpatient or day case basis.[3]

History

Imperial College Healthcare was formed on 1 October 2007 by the merger of Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust and St Mary's NHS Trust with Imperial College London Faculty of Medicine.[4] In July 2008 Imperial College Healthcare announced that it would be launching a pilot scheme to reward medical teams with bonuses for successful operations.[5][6] In January 2009 the results of a study were published in which researchers had successfully captured MRI images of bleeding inside the hearts of 15 Imperial College Healthcare patients who had suffered a heart attack.[7][8] In November 2009 a team led by Professor Paul Abel of Imperial College Healthcare performed the first removal of a rectal cancer using ultrasound.[9] In April 2011 it was reported that Imperial College Healthcare had an underlying financial deficit and faced a potential gap of £40 million between income and expenditure in 2011/12.[1] In 2012/13 Imperial College Healthcare Trust achieved a year-end adjusted surplus of £9.0 million.[2]

Organisation

Hammersmith Hospital

The Trust's chief executive is Tracey Batten. The chair of the Trust was Lord Tugendhat from its inception in October 2007 until December 2011 when he was succeeded by Sir Richard Sykes.

Clinical structure

The clinical services of Imperial College Healthcare are organised into four divisions:[10]

Finances

The Western Eye Hospital

In 2012/13 Imperial College Healthcare achieved a year end adjusted surplus of £9.0 million. The Trust had a total income of £971.30 million, of which £752.725 million was from patient care activities and £218.549 million was from other operating revenue.[2] In the same year it had operating expenses of £939.70 million, capital expenditure of £25.0 million.[2]

As at 31 March 2013 Imperial College Healthcare had total assets of £855.737 million, total assets less current liabilities of £687.395 million and total assets employed of £664.033 million.[2]

Staff

During 2012/13 Imperial College Healthcare employed an average of 9,770 people:[2]

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 8919 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.06%. 71% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 62% recommended it as a place to work.[11]

Facilities

It was one of the first trusts to introduce a comprehensive public Wi-Fi service, in 2015. The basic service is free for patients, visitors and staff. There is also a premium service which enables video and audio streaming.[12]

Research

In partnership with Imperial College London, Imperial College Healthcare is a major centre for medical research.[13] It is also part of one of eleven National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centres.[14][15] 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.[16]

Performance

The trust was one of 26 responsible for half of the national growth in patients waiting more than four hours in accident and emergency over the 2014/5 winter.[17]

The trust expects to finish 2015-16 with a deficit of more than £33 million as a result of changes to the NHS tariff.[18] It reported that vacancies had reached 1/6 of the nursing workforce in July 2015.[19]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "England's biggest hospital trust faces £40m budget black hole". The Telegraph. 9 April 2011. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Annual Report 2012/13" (PDF). Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Imperial plans huge land selloff to fund reconfiguration" (1 August 2014). Health Service Journal. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  4. ↑ "Super-trust will offer quicker cures". London Evening Standard. 1 October 2007. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  5. ↑ "'Rewards for medics' excellence'". BBC News. 20 July 2008. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  6. ↑ "Surgeons set for pay bonuses if their operations are successful". The Times. 20 July 2008. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  7. ↑ "A patient's bleeding heart is pictured for the first time". Daily Mail. 19 January 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  8. ↑ "First pictures inside a heart attack". The Telegraph. 20 January 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  9. ↑ "Rectal cancer tumour destroyed by ultrasound is a first". BBC News. 26 November 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  10. ↑ "Our organisation". Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
  11. ↑ "HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015". Health Service Journal. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  12. ↑ "Supplement: Can I watch Netflix from my hospital bed?". Health Service Journal. 28 October 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  13. ↑ "Imperial College Healthcare Research". Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  14. ↑ "Biomedical Research Centres". National Institute for Health Research. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
  15. ↑ "South secures research cash". Times Higher Education. 16 February 2007. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
  16. ↑ "NHS DNA scheme to fight cancer and genetic diseases". BBC News. 22 December 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  17. ↑ "26 trusts responsible for half of national A&E target breach". Health Service Journal. 1 April 2015. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  18. ↑ "Rollover tariff trusts expect massive deficits". Health Service Journal. 26 May 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  19. ↑ "NHS needs thousands of nurses as London wards are shut in ‘perfect storm’". Evening Standard. 30 July 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2015.

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