University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
| Type of Trust | |
|---|---|
| NHS hospital trust | |
| Trust Details | |
| Last annual budget | |
| Employees | |
| Chair | Pearse Butler |
| Chief Executive | Jackie Daniel |
| Headquarters | Westmorland General Hospital, Kendal, North West England |
| Links | |
| Website | University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay |
| Care Quality Commission reports | CQC |
| Monitor | Monitor |
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMB or UHMBT) is an NHS Foundation Trust in North West England, providing services in South Cumbria and North Lancashire in the Morecambe Bay area. It has about 6,000 employees and provides services for some 350,000 people.
It provides services at:
The Trust was the first to deploy Lorenzo patient record systems in the NHS. It implemented electronic patient record system Lorenzo Release 1.9 in June 2010.
In 2013 the Care Quality Commission stated that there had been problems with the Commission's oversight of the trust in 2010, that the Commission had "provided false assurances to the public" and that "[it] should not have registered UHMB without conditions", on publication of a report by Grant Thornton.
Jackie Daniel, chief executive said in June 2016 that she hoped to make her hospital “as small as humanly possible” as part of its new care model plans. Emergency and maternity services are to continue in Barrow and Lancaster, but about 65 weekly outpatient clinics will be replaced by community provisions and beds will be reduced.
The trust joined the Waterloo House GP practice in Millom in October 2016 to run the business side of the practice as part of the Better Together vanguard project.
The Trust was highlighted by NHS England as having 3 of 148 reported never events in the period from April to September 2013.
In December 2013 it was announced that despite the Furness General Hospital maternity ward deaths investigation, Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group intends to maintain consultant-led maternity services at Furness General Hospital “for the foreseeable future”.
In June 2014 the trust was placed in special measures by Monitor (NHS) after safety and leadership were rated inadequate by the Care Quality Commission. Services at Westmorland General Hospital were given an overall rating of “good”, but Furness General Hospital and the Royal Lancaster Infirmary both “required improvement”.
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