Bexhill Hospital
| Type of Trust | |
|---|---|
| NHS hospital trust | |
| Trust Details | |
| Last annual budget | £535 million |
| Employees | 7,136 |
| Chair | Julian Lee |
| Chief Executive | Matthew Kershaw |
| Links | |
| Website | Brighton and Sussex University Hospital |
| Care Quality Commission reports | CQC |
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust runs two acute hospitals, the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton and the Princess Royal Hospital (Haywards Heath). Additionally, it also operates a number of other hospitals and medical facilities, including the Royal Alexander Children's and Sussex Eye Hospitals in Brighton and Hurstwood Park Neurosciences Centre in Haywards Heath. BSUH is not responsible for the running of either Brighton General Hospital or Mill View Hospital (Hove), these being the responsibility of Sussex Community NHS Trust and Sussex Partnership NHS Trust respectively.
The Trust plans a £484.7 million public capital development programme for the modernisation of the Royal Sussex County Hospital, which has the oldest buildings in the NHS still used for acute care. Treasury funding for the redevelopment was approved in May 2014.Laing O'Rourke started work on the project on September 2014 by constructing temporary buildings. It is expected to be completed by 2024.
In June 2012 the trust was fined £325,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office after highly sensitive files of tens of thousands of patients, including details of HIV treatment, ended up being sold on eBay.
In February 2014 the Trust announced it was updating its policy to include e-cigarettes in a blanket ban on smoking in its buildings and grounds.
It established a joint venture, Frontier Pathology NHS Partnership, with Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust in 2015. It had its accreditation suspended by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service in 2016 when staff shortages affected turn round times.
A Care Quality Commission report in August 2014 found there had been a “significant increase” in disciplinary cases related to race discrimination. It also said that accident and emergency services at Royal Sussex County Hospital were inadequate for responsiveness, suffered significant pressures and lacked sufficient physical space to deal with the number of patients that attended.
In March 2015 it was announced that the trust's 5-year contract with Sodexo for cleaning, catering and portering services which started in December 2012 would be terminated early in July 2015 by mutual consent after problems with staff pay and safety concerns over equipment and cleanliness standards.
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