Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is an

NHS trust An NHS trust is an organisational unit within the National Health Services of England and Wales, generally serving either a geographical area or a specialised function (such as an ambulance service). In any particular location there may be several ...

which runs

Wycombe Hospital Wycombe Hospital is located in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. It is one of two acute and five community hospitals managed by the Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. History The original hospital built on Marlow Hill was the "High Wycombe War ...

Stoke Mandeville Hospital Stoke Mandeville Hospital is a large National Health Service (NHS) hospital located on the parish borders of Aylesbury and Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire, England. It is managed by Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. It was establishe ...

, Amersham Hospital, Buckingham Community Hospital and Thame Community Hospital, in

Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire (), abbreviated Bucks, is a ceremonial county in South East England that borders Greater London to the south-east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-ea ...

, England.

History

The trust was established as the Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust on 1 October 2002, and became operational on 1 April 2003. The trust changed to its current name on 1 November 2010. There is a plan for reform of NHS services in Berkshire and Buckinghamshire which envisages some centralisation of services at Stoke Mandeville. The debate about future hospital provision in the area hinges on the future of neighbouring

Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust ran Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot and Wexham Park Hospital near Slough, Berkshire, England. Julie Burgess, the chief executive resigned in September 2011 In October 2013 it became kno ...

which, it is proposed, is to be taken over by

Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS Foundation Trust created on 1 October 2014 by the acquisition of Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust by Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. This was the first ever take ...

Performance

In October 2013 as a result of the

Keogh Review The Keogh Review into patient safety was carried out by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh in July 2013. This review was ordered by the Prime Minister in response to the Francis Inquiry into poor care at Mid Staffordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. 1 ...

the Trust was put into the highest risk category by the

Care Quality Commission The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom. It was established in 2009 to regulate and inspect health and social care services in England. I ...

. It was put into a buddying arrangement with

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust operated Salford Royal Hospital in Greater Manchester until 2017. Its chief executive is Dr Owen Williams. In December 2017 it was announced that the Trust was to form a new healthcare organisation by combining ...

. In February 2014 the Trust announced it would invest £5 million to create 150 new nursing jobs to cut down on agency staff. “Before Christmas, we recruited 70 nurses and a further 97 nurses will be starting employment with the trust by April.” The trust spent £19.3 million on agency staff in 2014/5. A

inspection in March 2014 found the trust had made ‘significant progress’ with ‘real differences made in a relatively short time to improve quality and the patient experience’. Staff were said to be ‘caring and compassionate and treated patients with dignity and respect’. As a result, the trust was taken out of

special measures Special measures is a status applied by regulators of public services in Britain to providers who fall short of acceptable standards. In education (England and Wales) Ofsted, the schools inspection agency for England and some British Overseas Ter ...

in June 2014. In February 2016 it was expecting a deficit of £5.5 million for the year 2015/6.

References

External links

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Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust on the NHS website

Inspection reports
from the

{{Authority control NHS hospital trusts Health in Buckinghamshire

History

Performance

See also

References

External links