Barnet and Chase Farm NHS Hospitals Trust

Type of trust
NHS hospital trust
NHS Region
NHS London
Location
Enfield and Barnet (Greater London)
Trust details
Last annual budget	£250m. income (2005/6)
Employees	3400 direct (plus employees of PFI consortium)
Chair	Margaret Wall
chief executive	Dr. Tim Peachey
Links
Website	(archived 2014)
	National Health Service

Barnet and Chase Farm NHS Hospitals Trust was a NHS hospital trust of the National Health Service in England, responsible for Barnet General Hospital and Chase Farm Hospital, both of which are in North London. On 1 July 2014 Barnet and Chase Farm NHS Foundation Trust became part of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, which now comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital.

The Trust was formed in 1999 at a time when many hospitals were merged for administrative and managerial reasons, in an attempt to create organisations with sufficient 'critical mass' to deal with a range of patient services. However rationalisation of services between the hospitals was slow to materialise, due in part to the PFI structure of Barnet Hospital, and in part to the reluctance of the local population and politicians to countenance concentration of specific services at only one location.

The two trust hospitals treat over 500,000 patients per year; these come not only from Barnet and Enfield but also from East Harrow, South Hertfordshire,West Essex and Waltham Forest.

Plans to rationalise some services between the hospitals led to a number of protests, including the formation of the "Save Chase Farm" party (2006-2010) which at one time had two members elected to the local council of the London Borough of Enfield. Final agreement to these changes, including the closure of the maternity and accident and emergency services at Chase Farm, came about in 2014.

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