Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Type of Trust
Mental health and community trust
Trust Details
Last annual budget
Employees 9000
Chair Simon Waugh
Chief Executive Katrina Percy
Links
Website Southern Health
Care Quality Commission reports CQC
Monitor Monitor

Hampshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust was renamed in 2011 Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust shortly after its acquisition of Hampshire Primary Care Trust's (PCT) community healthcare and hospital services, which had previously operated within the PCT under the name Hampshire Community Health Care. It merged with Oxfordshire Learning Disabilities Trust in 2012.[1] It is one of the largest mental health and learning disability trusts in England.

Operations

The trust runs Slade House and Evenlode in Oxford, the Ridgeway Centre in High Wycombe, Eastrop House and Parklands Hospital in Basingstoke, Hollybank and Elmleigh in Havant, St James' Hospital in Southsea, Postern House in Marlborough, Melbury Lodge and Leigh House in Winchester, Crowlin House and Forest Lodge, Woodhaven, Western Community Hospital, Antelope House and Moorgreen Hospital in Southampton, Ravenswood House in Fareham, Jacobs Lodge in Hounsdown, Chase Community Hospital, Alton Community Hospital, Fordingbridge Hospital, Romsey Hospital, Petersfield Hospital and Gosport War Memorial Hospital.

The Trust is one of eight in a partnership of eight NHS mental health trusts to provide acute mental health inpatient services for military personnel.[2]

Performance

The Trust's Going Viral programme won the Leadership Innovation category at the first Guardian Healthcare Innovation Awards in November 2013.[3]

In November 2013 the Care Quality Commission issued an enforcement notice to the trust after inspection of the Headington site found it to be in breach of six essential standards. Slade House was found to be unsafe for patients.[4]

The trust 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 6662 full time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 4.95%. 64% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 53% recommended it as a place to work.[5]

In November 2013 Peter Walsh, Chief Executive of Action Against Medical Accidents was invited to spend time with the Trust exploring the Duty of candour and what it meant for them.[6]

Oxfordshire County Council’s adult social care director and local Clinical commissioning groups decided that the trust’s contract to run specialist inpatient services and community teams in Oxfordshire should not be renewed when it expires on December 31 2015 after regulators and commissioners had raised “quality and performance concerns” about inpatient services. The Care Quality Commission rated the trust’s learning disability inpatient services as ‘requiring improvement’ in March 2015 though community learning disability services were rated as ‘good’.[7]

It is one of the Multispecialty community providers established under the Five Year Forward View and is setting up a contract with a GP practice whereby 10 practice employees - the non-clinical staff, the salaried GPs and two out of the four partners - will become trust employees. The two remaining doctors will continue to own the practice, which will be the joint owner, with the trust, of a company which will hold the General Medical Services Contract.[8]

It expects a deficit of £2.8 million for 2015/6.[9]

A report by Mazars for NHS England looked at all 10,306 deaths at the trust between April 2011 and March 2015. According to a draft version of the report leaked to the BBC, 1,454 of these deaths were unexpected, and only 195 were treated as a serious incident requiring investigation. The reports were criticised for being late and of poor quality. Very few deaths of people with learning disability or dementia were investigated and there was little family involvement. Southern Health accepts that its investigations needed to improve, but disputes the report's interpretation of the data.[10] The trust maintains that it is not an outlier in respect of any mortality indicators and that it investigated the deaths which were its responsibility. 143 deaths were suicide or suspected suicide - comparable with other similar trusts. The vast majority of deaths were of patients for whose care the trust was not primarily responsible.[11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Proposed merger of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust with Oxfordshire Learning Disability NHS Trust". Co-operation and Competition Panel. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
  2. ↑ "Forces mental health contract awarded to NHS consortium". Health Service Journal. 9 January 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
  3. ↑ "Hampshire NHS team scoop leadership innovation training award". Southern Daily Echo. 7 November 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  4. ↑ "CQC finds failings at community mental health FT". Health Service Journal. 29 November 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  5. ↑ "HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015". Health Service Journal. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  6. ↑ "The duty of candour". Southern Health. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  7. ↑ "Southern Health set to lose £5m learning disability contract after ‘significant concerns’ over care". Community Care. 13 March 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  8. ↑ "Vanguard FT to take on GP practice staff". Health Service Journal. 5 August 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  9. ↑ "Emergency savings drive and stretch targets fail to reduce provider deficit". Health Service Journal. 28 September 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  10. ↑ "NHS trust 'failed to investigate hundreds of deaths'". BBC News. 9 December 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  11. ↑ "Briefing Note – Mazars Report" (PDF). Southern Health. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
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