Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

Type of Trust
NHS hospital trust
Trust Details
Last annual budget
Employees
Chair
Chief Executive Lezli Boswell
Links
Website []
Care Quality Commission reports CQC

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust runs West Cornwall Hospital, St Michael's Hospital (Hayle), Royal Cornwall Hospital, and St Austell Hospital - Penrice Birthing Unit, in Cornwall, England.

In June 2013 Martin Watts resigned from his post as Chair of the Trust after external investigations into two separate complaints were upheld.[1]

In October 2013 one of the Trust's Governors complained that the health and social care system in the County was dysfunctional[2] because some elements of health care were no longer part of the NHS, but provided by what were "essentially private contractors". Community health services in the County are now provided by Peninsula Community Health

The Trust's plans to switch up to 450 jobs in catering, housekeeping, cleaning, portering, waste and switchboard functions to private companies were attacked by local Labour Party candidates in December 2013.[3]

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.[4]

The trust established a cleaning contract with Mitie in 2014 worth £90m over seven years. Sick pay cost £1.2m in its first eight months compared with £280,000 for the NHS in the previous financial year. UNISON blamed the rise on staff stress which it claimed had been caused by mistakes on pay. [5]

In October 2015 Bill Shields, the interim chief executive announced his resignation. The human resources director, company secretary, the interim chief operating officer and the interim director of financial recovery are also leaving. The Care Quality Commission inspected the hospital in June 2015 and rated safety in medical care and the accident and emergency department as “inadequate”.[6]

In the last quarter of 2015 it had one of the worst performances of any hospital in England against the four hour waiting target.[7]

In March 2016 the Trust was rated as having a poor reporting culture in the Learning from Mistakes League.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Former hospital boss rules out legal action". This is Cornwall. 29 October 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  2. ↑ "Cornwall's health service 'fragmented', hospital governor says". BBC News. 25 October 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  3. ↑ "Call to reverse privatisation of NHS services". Plymouth herald. 2 December 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  4. ↑ "26 trusts responsible for half of national A&E target breach". Health Service Journal. 1 April 2015. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  5. ↑ "Sick pay costs rise for Cornwall NHS hospitals private cleaners Mitie". BBC news. 24 June 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  6. ↑ "Royal Cornwall chief leaves for 'personal reasons'". Health Service Journal. 1 October 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  7. ↑ "Thirty worst A&E trusts called to London summit". Health Service Journal. 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  8. ↑ "Trusts ranked in 'learning from mistakes' league". Health Service Journal. 9 March 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
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