Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is an

NHS Foundation Trust A foundation trust is a semi-autonomous organisational unit within the National Health Service in England. They have a degree of independence from the Department of Health and Social Care (and, until the abolition of SHAs in 2013, their local s ...

which was established in April 2001, by a merger of North East Lincolnshire NHS Trust and Scunthorpe and Goole Hospitals NHS Trust. It runs the

Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital (previously Scartho Road Hospital) is a public hospital in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England. It is managed by the Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. History The hospital has its orig ...

Grimsby Grimsby or Great Grimsby is a port town and the administrative centre of North East Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England. Grimsby adjoins the town of Cleethorpes directly to the south-east forming a conurbation. Grimsby is north-east of Linco ...

Scunthorpe General Hospital Scunthorpe General Hospital is the main hospital for North Lincolnshire. It is situated on Church Lane in the west of Scunthorpe, off Kingsway (the A18), and north of the railway. Until the 1970s, it was known as Scunthorpe and District War Me ...

, both in

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...

, and

Goole and District Hospital Goole and District Hospital is a hospital in Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is managed by Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. History The hospital, which replaced several smaller local hospitals, was purp ...

, in the

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, England. The trust established the Path Links Pathology Service jointly with

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in 2001. In January 2016 the trust was one of five where substantial reconfiguration of services was envisaged.

Performance

It was one of 11 trusts to be placed into

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after the

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into higher than expected mortality rates. It was assigned to

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for support and though it was said to be making good progress it was one of the 24 trusts placed in the highest risk band by the

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in October 2013. In December 2013 the Trust was one of thirteen hospital trusts named by

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as having higher than expected higher mortality indicator scores for the period April 2012 to March 2013 in their Hospital Guide 2013. It was taken out of special measures in July 2014. In April 2015 the trust asked for an emergency loan from the

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as it forecast an £18 million year end deficit for 2014-15. It expects a deficit of £25.8 million for 2015/6.

was judged by the

to be "inadequate" in April 2016. They found "evidence of harm to patients within the outpatient services because of poor management of the follow up appointment system". The trust complained about this assessment.

in Grimsby was rated as "requires improvement", while

was rated "good". The trust was hit by a

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virus, Globe2, on 30 October 2016. Computer systems were shut down and 2,800 appointments were cancelled over the following two days. In May 2017 it announced an external contract for ophthalmology work to help clear a backlog of almost 900 patients. It was again put into special measures after the

found that there "remained a lack of management oversight of the recurrent backlogs". In January 2020 it had a backlog of 34,938 follow-up appointments of which 20% were in ophthalmology. The ophthalmology service could not meet the quality standards set by

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regarding “the frequency of recall to follow-up, as well as the tests which need to be performed every visit due to limitation of clinical capacity, technical instrumentation and training technicians”.

References

{{Authority control NHS foundation trusts Health in Lincolnshire

Performance

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