The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust operates
Rotherham General Hospital in
South Yorkshire
South Yorkshire is a ceremonial and metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. The county has four council areas which are the cities of Doncaster and Sheffield as well as the boroughs of Barnsley and Rotherham.
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, England. It was previously Rotherham General Hospitals NHS Trust before becoming 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 ...
in 2005.
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In October 2012 the Trust announced that it needed a "smaller hospital, with substantially fewer beds".
In October 2013 its future independence was under consideration. The Trust recorded a deficit of £3.5 million in 2012–13 but predicted a surplus of £3.3 million in 2013–14.
The Trust was one of the first to abandon the National Programme for Information Technology (
NPfIT
The NHS Connecting for Health (CFH) agency was part of the UK Department of Health and was formed on 1 April 2005, having replaced the former NHS Information Authority. It was part of the Department of Health Informatics Directorate, with the role ...
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electronic patient records system in 2009 and adopt its own system. In November 2013 it announced that it was abandoning the system Meditech 6.0, produced by US-based Medical Information Technology, that it had spent more than £21 million implementing which went live in 2012, after a "catalogue of failure".
Performance
In 2015 the Trust declared a serious incident after discovering a patient had waited 66 weeks for an operation. They discovered five more people who had also waited more than a year for treatment. 93.4% of patients at the trust referred for day-case or inpatient treatment received it within 18 weeks in January 2015, within the target of treating 90% of non-urgent cases in 18 weeks.
The trust spent £13.2 million on agency staff in 2014/5. The trust was among the three worst nationally over care for women giving birth.
In the most recent Care Quality Commission inspection report, published on 31 January 2019, the trust was rated overall as requiring improvement.
Integrated Community Services
From 1 April 2011, a number of services previously provided by Rotherham Community Health Services and Doncaster Dental Care merged with The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust creating a combined acute and community provider organisation.
See also
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List of NHS trusts
This list of NHS trusts in England provides details of current and former English NHS trusts, NHS foundation trusts, acute hospital trusts, ambulance trusts, mental health trusts, and the unique Isle of Wight NHS Trust. , 217 extant trusts empl ...
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