Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is an acute hospital trust which, until 2019, operated Fairfield General Hospital in Bury, North Manchester General Hospital, the Royal Oldham Hospital and Rochdale Infirmary, all in Greater Manchester. It is now part of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Group.

Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
TypeNHS trust
Established28 January 2002[1]
HeadquartersDelaunays Road
Manchester
M8 5RB[2]
Area sizeGreater Manchester
Hospitals
Chief executiveRaj Jain
Websitewww.pat.nhs.uk

It should not to be confused with Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, which is also based in Greater Manchester.

Management

In 2014, Dr. Fairfield, the Chief Executive of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust moved to the trust on the retirement of John Saxby.[3] In April 2016, Sir David Dalton was appointed to take over the leadership of the trust[4] and the functions of the board were taken over by directors from Salford Royal Foundation Trust, although Pennine Acute still had a legal existence.

In 2020, it became necessary to re-establish the board because of complexities involved in formally transferring its assets to other trusts. It was intended to disband it by April 2020. The hospitals in Oldham, Bury and Rochdale would continue to be run by Salford, while North Manchester hospital would be run by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust under a management agreement. The other trusts are resisting taking over the liabilities associated with these hospitals, and North Manchester is said to require rebuilding at a cost of around £500 million. The re-established board will not be involved in the management of the hospitals.[5]

Northern Care Alliance

In December 2017, it was announced that the trust was to form a new healthcare organisation by combining with Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust. The new organisation, the Northern Care Alliance NHS Group would have 17,000 staff, and a combined operating budget of £1.3bn covering Oldham, Bury and Rochdale, and Salford. North Manchester General Hospital would be taken over by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.[6]

In April 2019, Raj Jain became chief executive of Northern Care Alliance NHS Group and of Pennine Acute Trust.[7]

The Alliance is Greater Manchester’s first Global Digital Exemplar Fast Follower organisation, investing £10 million in digital technology for patient care systems across its hospitals in Bury, Oldham, Rochdale and North Manchester which will replicate projects already deployed at the Salford trust, including an online appointment management system for patients.[8] In 2019 the trust had 650 physical and virtual servers and more than 30 clinical systems, some of which had proved increasingly unreliable.[9]

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/

The trust was highly commended in the progressive research culture category at the Health Service Journal Awards 2012 and has seen a large increase in recruitment to clinical trials.[10]

The trust did poorly in the Friends and Family Test in March 2013, with 48% of staff saying they would not recommend their workplace to relatives and friends, placing it in the bottom 20 in England.[11]

The trust was one of 26 responsible for half of the national growth in patients waiting more than four hours in accident and emergency over the 2014/2015 winter.[12]

In December 2015, it was reported that the trust envisaged moving all non-elective surgery away from North Manchester General Hospital as a result of the decision to centralise emergency surgery on 4 sites in the conurbation.[13]

In the last quarter of 2015 it had one of the worst performances of any hospital in England against the four hour waiting target.[14] In March 2016, at least 70 emergency patients at the trust waited more than 12 hours to be allocated a bed. This was the highest figure for any trust in England.[15] In 2016/2017, it had 786 cases where patients waited more than 12 hours to be admitted to a ward, about a quarter of the total for England, mostly at North Manchester General Hospital. There were 200 cases the previous year.[16]

Overseas patients

The trust issued invoices to patients thought to be ineligible for NHS treatment totalling £1.4 million in 2018–2019, but only collected £0.1 million.[17]

See also

References
  1. "The Pennine Acute Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) and the Bury Health Care National Health Service Trust, the Rochdale Healthcare National Health Service Trust, the Oldham National Health Service Trust and the North Manchester Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 2002". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  2. "Contact us". The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  3. "Pennine Acute NHS Trust announces new Chief Executive". Rochdale Online. 17 December 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  4. "Sir David Dalton". Pennine Acute Trust. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  5. "Trusts find workaround solution for failed NHS provider". Health Service Journal. 13 January 2020. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
  6. "Greater Manchester trusts come together to form £1.3bn healthcare organisation". National Health Executive. 4 December 2017. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  7. "Northern Care Alliance NHS Group announces appointment of new Chief Executive". rochdaleonline.co.uk. 28 January 2019. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  8. "£10m digital health programme for NHS gets go ahead". Building Better Healthcare. 13 March 2019. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  9. "North by North West: Going electronic". Health Service Journal. 2 September 2019. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  10. "Interview with Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS trust". The Guardian. ND 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2014. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. "The hospitals only HALF of staff would recommend to a friend..." Manchester Evening News. 3 March 2013. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
  12. "26 trusts responsible for half of national A&E target breach". Health Service Journal. 1 April 2015. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  13. "Trust's rationale for moving high risk surgery 'not supported'". Health Service Journal. 4 December 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
  14. "Thirty worst A&E trusts called to London summit". Health Service Journal. 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  15. "Trust reports dozens of 12 hour trolley waits in single month". Health Service Journal. 16 May 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  16. "Single trust accounts for nearly a quarter of 'trolley waits'". Health Service Journal. 12 May 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
  17. "Trusts missing out on tens of millions from overseas patients". Health Service Journal. 19 November 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
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