Croydon Health Services NHS Trust runs
Croydon University Hospital. It also provides services at
Purley War Memorial Hospital Purley may refer to:
People
* Purley (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
Places
* Purley, London, England
** Purley railway station
** Purley Way, out-of-town retail area
* Purley on Thames, Berkshire, En ...
, in
Purley, as well as multiple clinics in the local area. Croydon University Hospital is on the London Road in northern Croydon, and Purley War Memorial Hospital is located on the A235.
The Trust was formed in 2010 by a merger of Croydon Community Health Services and Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust.
It opened a new child development centre for children with special educational needs and disabilities in January 2017.
The trust announced plans to appoint a joint chief executive with Croydon
Clinical commissioning group in May 2019, the first such appointment in England. The two organisations already share a chief nurse and a chief pharmacist.
Services
The Trust provides all levels of secondary care, including
district general
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisi ...
care to the Croydon area. The trust provides emergency medical and non-elective surgical care, not including major trauma care, at Croydon University Hospital. There are walk-in and book ahead GUM clinic services in the adjoining Croydon Sexual Health Centre, which serve a wide area due to the closing down of neighbouring sexual health services (such as the Courtyard Clinic, previously at
St. George's Hospital
St George's Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Tooting, London. Founded in 1733, it is one of the UK's largest teaching hospitals and one of the largest hospitals in Europe. It is run by the St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundatio ...
in
Tooting.
Performance
In October 2013 as a result of the
Keogh Review the Trust was put into the highest risk category by the
Care Quality Commission The Trust predicts a deficit of £12.2m in 2013-14.
It spent 7.8% of its total turnover on agency staff in 2014/5.
It was put into
special measures in July 2016 because of concerns over its financial position, when it had a deficit of £36 million. It was taken out of financial
special measures in February 2017, after it reduced its expected deficit to £25 million.
In 2019 it got the lowest score in England from the hospital inpatient survey, largely down to patients' experience of being discharged, despite its supposed integration with mental health services and social care. It also had the second lowest score on whether there were enough nurses.
In December 2019 it was the fifth worst performing trust in England on the 4 hour
A&E target, with only 48.2% of patients seen within 4 hours.
See also
*
List of NHS trusts
References
External links
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
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NHS hospital trusts
Health in the London Borough of Croydon