Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is an English teaching hospital and part of the Shelford Group. It is one of the UK's largest teaching hospitals and one of the largest hospitals in Europe. The Trust is made up of four hospitals – the John Radcliffe Hospital (which includes the Children's Hospital, West Wing, Eye Hospital, Heart Centre and Women's Centre), the Churchill Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, all located in Oxford, and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury, north Oxfordshire.[2]

Type of Trust
NHS foundation trust
Trust Details
Last annual budget £822 million
Employees 11,000
Chair Sir Jonathan Montgomery[1]
Chief Executive Dr Bruno Holthof
Links
Website www.ouh.nhs.uk
Care Quality Commission reports CQC
Wiki-Links National Health Service

As well as the four main hospitals, the trust also provides services in four community hospitals across Oxfordshire including Thame, Wallingford, Wantage and Witney. The services offered at these community hospitals are fairly basic and differ from hospital to hospital. Wantage community hospital is also accompanied by Wantage health centre whereby additional health services are provided by the trust. Other clinics and health centres serviced by the trust in Oxfordshire includes Bicester and Oxford with the trust also providing some services in clinics and hospitals in neighbouring counties.[3]

History

The Trust was formed in 2011 by a merger with the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust. It achieved foundation trust status in October 2015.[4] Sir Jonathan Michael, then chief executive, announced in November 2014 that he planned to retire in 2015 – by which time it was hoped that the Trust would achieve foundation trust status.[5]

The Trust is to set up an independent business subsidiary in London in partnership with the University of Oxford and Mayo Clinic in 2019.[6]

Services

The trust has one of the 11 Genomics Medicines Centres associated with Genomics England which will open across England in February 2014. All the data produced in the 100,000 Genomes project will be made available to drugs companies and researchers to help them create precision drugs for future generations.[7]

Part of the Trust's former Littlemore Hospital site is to be developed for housing.[8]

It is one of the biggest provider of specialised services in England, which generated an income of £356 million in 2014/5.[9]

In 2019 NHS England planned to remove the contract for PET-CT scanning from the Trust’s Churchill Hospital and award it to a private contractor, InHealth. This was opposed by local MPs, and 10,000 people signed a petition against the move, saying it could produce an inferior service.[10] Through its solicitors the NHS then threatened to sue the Trust if it sided with opponents of the plan.[11] The Trust then intended to appeal against the decision but backed down after a phone call from NHS England's chairman. NHS England subsequently changed its mind, and agreed that the scanners would stay in the hospital, but InHealth was given the contract to provide the service.[12]

Performance
Four-hour target in the emergency department quarterly figures from NHS England Data from https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/

In September 2016, the trust was selected by NHS England as one of twelve Global Digital Exemplars.[13]

The trust halved the number patients medically fit for discharge but stuck in acute beds between January and June 2016 by employing 60 social care workers to provide support in patients' homes after discharge.[14]

In June 2019 the Care Quality Commission downgraded the trust's rating from “good” to “requires improvement” because “Across John Radcliffe Hospital’s wards and in the main theatres the state and repair of the walls, floors, doors and work surfaces were such that adequate cleaning could not always be assured.” There were other problems affecting infection control in the operating theatres.[15]

Staffing

In September 2018 the chief executive, Bruno Holthof, reported that the trust had about 450 nursing vacancies, because of the effect of Brexit and the high cost of living in the area, and had to close beds as a result. There were 3,210 nurses and health visitors employed in June 2018.[16]

See also

References
  1. Trust Board Directors Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Retrieved 29 April 2020
  2. About us Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Retrieved 5 February 2015
  3. Hospitals and clinics Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Retrieved 1 January 2016
  4. Oxford University Hospitals becomes a Foundation Trust Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Retrieved 17 October 2015
  5. "Oxfordshire's major hospitals will conduct international search for new chief executive". The Herald. 13 November 2014. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  6. "Mayo Clinic, Oxford to collaborate on research and innovation". Healthcare IT news. 5 October 2017. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
  7. "NHS DNA scheme to fight cancer and genetic diseases". BBC News. 22 December 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  8. "Residents' appeal pays off as unmarked graves are saved". Oxford times. 26 February 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  9. "Analysed: The biggest NHS providers of specialised services". Health Service Journal. 16 October 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  10. "Halt privatisation of cancer scanning or risk patient harm, MPs tell NHS England". The Guardian. 13 March 2019. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  11. "Oxford hospital trust faced defamation threat from NHS". The Guardian. 3 April 2019. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  12. "U-turn on plans to strip trust of cancer scanning service". Health Services Journal. 12 September 2019. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  13. "New plans to expand the use of digital technology across the NHS". gov.uk. Department of Health and The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  14. "New Oxford Hospitals chief reveals delayed transfers turnaround". Health Service Journal. 5 July 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  15. "Major teaching trust told to make urgent infection risk improvements". Health Service Journal. 7 June 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  16. "BREXIT: Exodus of EU nurses leaves Oxford hospitals with 'severe staff shortage'". Oxford Mail. 28 September 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
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