Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Type of Trust
NHS hospital trust
Trust Details
Last annual budget	£329 million
Employees	6000
Chair	Hattie Llewelyn-Davies
Chief Executive	Anne Eden
Links
Website	Buckinghamshire Healthcare
Care Quality Commission reports	CQC

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust runs Wycombe General Hospital, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Amersham Hospital, Buckingham Community Hospital and Thame Community Hospital, in Buckinghamshire, England.

There is a plan for reform of NHS services in Berkshire and Buckinghamshire which envisages some centralisation of services at Stoke Mandeville. The debate about future hospital provision in the area hinges on the future of neighbouring Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust which, it is proposed, is to be taken over by Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

In October 2013 as a result of the Keogh Review the Trust was put into the highest risk category by the Care Quality Commission. It was put into a buddying arrnagement with Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust.

In February 2014 the Trust announced it would invest £5 million to create 150 new nursing jobs to cut down on agency staff. “Before Christmas, we recruited 70 nurses and a further 97 nurses will be starting employment with the trust by April.” The trust spent £19.3 million on agency staff in 2014/5.

A Care Quality Commission inspection in March 2014 found the trust had made ‘significant progress’ with ‘real differences made in a relatively short time to improve quality and the patient experience’. Staff were said to be ‘caring and compassionate and treated patients with dignity and respect’. As a result the trust was taken out of special measures in June 2014.

In February 2016 it was expecting a deficit of £5.5 million for the year 2015/6.

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