Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

Type of Trust
NHS hospital trust
Trust Details
Last annual budget
Employees 3,300
Chair Sue Musson
Chief Executive Jonathan Parry
Links
Website Southport and Ormskirk
Care Quality Commission reports CQC

Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust is the principal healthcare provider to 258,000 people across Southport, Formby and West Lancashire. It has a budget of more than £180m and employs 3,300 staff. Further details about the Trust can be found in the 2015/15 annual report.

Services

It provides care at Southport and Formby District General Hospital and Ormskirk and District General Hospital as well as NHS community care in clinics and patients’ homes. It is also responsible for the Skelmersdale NHS Walk-in Centre.[1] Around 3,000 babies are born each year at the maternity unit at Ormskirk.

The Trust is the home of the North West Regional Spinal Injuries Centre[2] which provides specialist care for spinal patients from across the North West, North Wales and the Isle of Man.

Performance

The centre, which is an internationally recognised centre of excellence for the treatment of people who require permanent mechanical ventilation following spinal cord injury, admits patients from across the United Kingdom for this highly specialised care. The centre was rated as “inadequate” by the Care Quality Commission in May 2015 because of the lack of suitably qualified, skilled and experienced staff. The CQC also found that skill levels in maternity were below those needed to provide a consistently safe service. "Some staff were being used for duties above their level of competency. Too few doctors had been trained to manage emergency situations in the maternity service.”[3]

Overall the Trust was rated "requires improvement", the rating awarded to two-thirds of trusts it inspects.

The chief executive Jonathan Parry, the chief operating officer and head of human resources were all suspended from work in August 2015 after complaints by whistleblowers relating to a "serious employment issue".[4]

History

In 1948 there were seven hospitals in Southport: Southport General Infirmary, the Promenade Hospital, Greaves Hall Hospital, Fleetwood Road Hospital, New Hall Hospital run by Ramsay Health Care UK and, for maternity services, St Katherine’s and the Christiana Hartley unit.

The present organisation was formed by merging acute services in Southport and Ormskirk in 1999. NHS community services were acquired from the former NHS Sefton and NHS Central Lancashire Primary Care Trusts in April 2011.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "NHS - Southport & Ormskirk NHS Hospital Trust - About Us". Southportandormskirk.nhs.uk. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
  2. ↑ "Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust - Spinal Injuries Homepage". Southportandormskirk.nhs.uk. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
  3. ↑ "Southport and Ormskirk hospitals given list of improvements after damning care quality report". Liverpool Echo. 13 May 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  4. ↑ "Southport and Ormskirk NHS bosses suspended following complaints". BBC News. 4 August 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
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