East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
| Type of Trust | |
|---|---|
| NHS hospital trust | |
| Trust Details | |
| Last annual budget | £360 million |
| Employees | 7500 |
| Chair | David Clayton Smith |
| Chief Executive | Dr Adrian Bull |
| Links | |
| Website | East Sussex Healthcare |
| Care Quality Commission reports | CQC |
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust runs Conquest Hospital in St Leonards-on-Sea, Eastbourne District General Hospital, Bexhill Hospital, Lewes Victoria Hospital, Rye Memorial Hospital and Uckfield Community Hospital, all in East Sussex, England.
The trust announced in November 2012 that stroke services should be centralised on the Eastbourne District General Hospital site and emergency and higher risk planned general surgery, and emergency and higher risk planned orthopaedics would be located at the Conquest Hospital.
Crowborough Birthing Centre, which was temporarily shut in November 2013, changed hands and is now run by Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust which runs Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury and Maidstone Hospital.
In December 2013 the Trust was one of thirteen hospital trusts named by Dr Foster Intelligence as having higher than expected higher mortality indicator scores for the period April 2012 to March 2013 in their Hospital Guide 2013.
The Trust predicts a deficit of £19.4m in 2013-14.
In April 2014 High Weald Lewes Havens Clinical Commissioning Group served 12 months’ notice on their £18m a year community services contract with the Trust because of concerns about “the access to and consistency of NHS community services”. A report to the commissioner’s March board meeting mentioned “ad hoc and unnotified” closures of the trust’s minor injury service, “inequitable access” to district nursing, and “intermittent closure” of a midwifery-led unit. The CCG says the financial problems of the Trust could mean “there is a risk that the provider may seek to take short term decisions that reduce the equitable provision of community services to save cost. Equally, there is a risk that services could be deemed, ‘unsafe’ because of staffing issues.” The CCGs in Eastbourne and Hastings are continuing their contracts with the Trust, but High Weald are putting their community services contract out to tender.
The Care Quality Commission raised concerns over outpatient records and surgical practices at Eastbourne District General Hospital after an inspection in September 2014. It also found that safety and leadership was inadequate. The leaders of the trust were subsequently urged to resign by the East Sussex County Council health overview and scrutiny committee and by Hastings Borough Council.
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