Nottingham University Hospitals
| Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust | |
|---|---|
| Geography | |
| Location | Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Hospital type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | University of Nottingham |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 1664 |
| History | |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.nuh.nhs.uk/ |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) is the UK’s fourth largest acute teaching trust. It was established on 1 April 2006 following the merger of Nottingham City Hospital and the Queen's Medical Centre NHS Trusts. They provide acute and specialist services to 2.5 million people within Nottingham and surrounding communities from the Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) and the City Hospital campuses. In 2009/10 it had an annual budget in excess of £687m of public sector funding and employed approximately 12,000 staff. The Trust has over 1,500 volunteers.
A merger with Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is planned, and Peter Homa, Chief Executive of Nottingham has taken the same role at Sherwood Forest, but is refusing to accept responsibility for the trust's £2.5 billion private finance initiative contract. In 2016 Homa stepped down from the job at Sherwood Forest and in November 2016 it was announced that the merger would not proceed.
The Trust is the principal provider of acute general, specialist and tertiary hospital care to the population of Nottingham, with approximately 1,663 hospital beds. Activities include general hospital services for the local population and a wide range of specialist services for regional and national patients. They provide a range of general acute and specialist services across nine clinical directorates. These are:
• Acute Medicine • Cancer and Associated Specialties • Diabetic, Renal & Cardiovascular • Diagnostic & Clinical Support • Digestive Diseases and Thoracic • Family Health • Head and Neck • Musculoskeletal and Neurosciences • Specialist Support
The Trust has a close partnership with The University of Nottingham across a vast range of research activities. This includes the three Biomedical Research Units in gastroenterology, hearing and respiratory medicine.
Nottingham University Hospitals was one of only two national pilots for a trust-wide programme called ‘Releasing Time to Care – the Productive Ward’. The aim of this is to release nurse time from unnecessary or ‘wasteful’ activity.
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