Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
| Type of Trust | |
|---|---|
| NHS hospital trust | |
| Location | |
| Trust Details | |
| Last annual budget | |
| Employees | 11,000 |
| Chair | Mr Les Lawrence |
| Chief Executive | Mr Andrew Foster |
| Links | |
| Website | Heart of England |
| CQC reports | Care Quality Commission |
| Monitor | Monitor |
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (HEFT) is one of the largest organisations running NHS hospitals in England. It is a Foundation Trust which runs a wide variety of general and specialist services in the West Midlands region. The hospitals and services run by HEFT include Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic, England.
In September 2016 it announced plans to merge with the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.
The Trust's history can be traced back to the opening of Little Bromwich Hospital in June 1895, which was a fever hospital and sanatorium in Yardley. In April 1963 it merged with Yardley Green hospitals to become East Birmingham District General Hospital, before going on to acquire the Marston Green Maternity Hospital. It became the first acute trust in Birmingham in April 1992.
In July 2013 the Care Quality Commission announced that Heart of England would be one of the Trusts to be inspected by Professor Sir Mike Richards under the new inspection regime.
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.
In April 2014 it was announced that Les Lawrence had been appointed as the new chairman following a competitive interview process to succeed Lord Hunt who is to retire in May. He has been a non-executive director for more than two years, and was previously the cabinet member for children, young people and families at Birmingham City Council He has also chaired both the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch.
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