Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Type of Trust | |
|---|---|
| NHS foundation hospital trust | |
| Trust Details | |
| Last annual budget | £297m |
| Employees | 4,500 |
| Acting Chair | Dr Peter Marks |
| Chief Executive | Peter Herring |
| Links | |
| Website | Sherwood Forest Hospitals |
| Care Quality Commission reports | CQC |
| Monitor | Monitor |
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was formed in 2001 and gained Foundation Trust status in 2007. It runs three hospitals in Nottinghamshire - King’s Mill Hospital, Newark Hospital, Mansfield Community Hospital. It also operates services from Ashfield Health Village.
The Trust provides healthcare for about 420,000 people across north Nottinghamshire, as well as parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. It employs 4,500 people across its three sites.
The Trust provides hospital and community services, including planned and emergency surgery, children’s services, obstetric and gynaecological care. The emergency department at King’s Mill Hospital treats urgent cases and there is an adjacent GP-led Primary Care 24 centre where non-urgent cases can be referred. Newark Hospital has an Urgent Care Centre which treats a range of conditions and is open 24-hours-a-day.
The children and young people’s service cares for patients and their families from birth until adulthood. Its 18-bed neonatal unit at King’s Mill Hospital provides high quality care with seamless antenatal to postnatal care for high risk infants. The unit is part of the Trent Neonatal Network and works closely with children’s services in Leicester and Nottingham. Each year the Trust sees more than 8,000 young patients in its outpatient clinics and more than 4,000 children in its community clinics. More than 3,000 patients are looked after on the children’s ward.
Each year the hospitals care for more than 39,000 inpatients; 29,000 day case patients; 411,000 outpatients and therapy patients; and more than 3,200 women give birth at its hospitals. More than 4,000 members of staff work across its hospitals, helped by almost 700 volunteers.
The Trust has a substantial PFI scheme. The £265 million scheme which will run for 30 years covers new buildings, refurbishments, facilities, services, equipment and capital investment equipment costs and will run until March 2043. The partners to the scheme are Innisfree Ltd, Skanska, and | Compass Group| Medirest. Total repayments under the contract will amount to £2.5 billion.
The Trust paid out £235,000 to two interim Chief Executives during 2012. Paul O'Connor, Chief Executive, resigned in April 2015 after less than 2 years in post.
Following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission in July 2016, the Trust received an overall rating of "requires improvement" in November 2016 and the regulator NHS Improvement lifted it out of special measures (see media statement), in which it had been placed in 2013 following the Keogh Review. Although rated as "requires improvement" the CQC's report rated the Trust as "good" for care, recognising that it was among the best performing in the country for the four-hour emergency care standard and other waiting targets, tackling C-Diff, and managing patients at risk of cardiac arrest.
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