Wye Valley NHS Trust

Type of Trust
NHS hospital trust
Trust Details
Last annual budget £176 million
Employees
Chair Museji Takolia
Chief Executive Richard Beekin
Links
Website Wye Valley
Care Quality Commission reports CQC

Wye Valley NHS Trust was established in 2011 by a merger of Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust with Herefordshire PCT community services and Herefordshire Council’s Adult Social Care services. It runs Hereford Hospital, Bromyard Community Hospital, Leominster Community Hospital and Ross Community Hospital, in Herefordshire, England.

Future

It has relied on external financial support of about £9 million a year for some years and has accepted that it will not attain NHS Foundation Trust status in its present form.[1] It announced plans to seek either a partnership with an NHS foundation trust, a private sector franchise or the break-up of its services to a number of providers, but in February 2014 after “an exhaustive examination of the options” to test their financial and clinical viability the Trust Board “found that none of them appeared to meet the stringent criteria required”.[2]

The chairman of the Trust confirmed in March 2014 that he was stepping down. He told the Hereford Times he was leaving after 11 years with the NHS in the county to “pursue business interests.” He was the third high profile loss to the Trust in 2014 with both chief executive Derek Smith and medical director Dr Peter Wilson confirming that they were leaving in June and May respectively.[3]

Three board members from South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust were appointed to run the trust in October 2016 after the Trust’s chair, appointed in 2014, Museji Takolia resigned. The chief executive Glen Burley and chair Russell Hardy will be appointed chief executive and chair of Wye Valley on a part time basis in a move reported as likely to lead to the formation of a hospital chain, [4] a development opposed by local MP Jesse Norman.[5]

Capacity

Hereford County Hospital has 208 beds. In December 2014 it was taking between 35-55 emergency admissions each day, of which about 23% are discharged the same day. It transfers around 50 patients a month to private sector providers because of lack of capacity. Non-elective patients stay an average 6 days and elective patients 2 days. A&E attendances increased by 1,640 (3.6%) from 2012/13 to 2013/14. The majority of the increase since 2012/13 1,368 (83.4%) are people over 65.[6]

In April 2014 it was reported that two minor injury units in Hereford, were closed for a month as staff were moved to Hereford County Hospital’s A&E in order "boost the resources at Hereford County Hospital’s accident and emergency department enabling the trust to continue to see and treat patients, and care for the increased number of patients requiring admission to acute hospital".[7]

Kier Group has a contract for a £40m programme of reconfiguration works at Hereford County Hospital.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Analysed: The way ahead for Wye Valley Trust". Health Service Journal. 11 March 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
  2. ↑ "Uncertainty over Wye Valley future". Health Service Journal. 18 February 2014. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
  3. ↑ "Chairman of Wye Valley NHS Trust to stand down". Hereford Times. 26 March 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  4. ↑ "Trusts make first moves towards hospital chain". Health Service Journal. 28 October 2016. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  5. ↑ "'Secret hospital takeover plan': Hereford MP says public being kept in dark over proposal to hand running of hospital to an NHS Trust 70 miles away". Hereford Times. 27 October 2016. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  6. ↑ "Prime Minister commits to action over Hereford County Hospital". Hereford Times. 18 December 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  7. ↑ "NHS bosses shut walk-in centres as A&E crisis deepens while desperate hospitals want to turn away patients". Daily Mirror. 19 April 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  8. ↑ "Kier wins £250m of health deals including Hampshire hospital design-and-build job". Construction News. 16 June 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
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