Stockport 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 runs

Stepping Hill Hospital Stepping Hill Hospital is in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It is managed by Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. History The facility was first established on Stepping Hill as the Stepping Hill Poor Law Hospital in December 1905. The fac ...

as well as other community and specialist services in

Stockport Stockport is a town and borough in Greater Manchester, England, south-east of Manchester, south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and north of Macclesfield. The River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey here. Most of the town is within ...

. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services for children and adults across Stockport and the High Peak area of

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, as well as community health services for Stockport,

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and

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. On 1 April 2004 Foundation Trust status was established, one of the first NHS organisations in the country to achieve the foundation trust position. The Trust provides acute hospital care predominantly across Stockport and the High Peak and employs over 5,800 staff working across two hospital sites and over 41 community clinics. Tony Warne is the Trust's Chairman, after taking over in May 2021.

History

Stockport NHS Trust formed in April 2000, following the merger of Stockport Acute Services and Stockport Healthcare NHS Trust. The organisation became a foundation trust in 2004 - one of the first ten foundation trusts in the UK. The Trust was the first in the country to achieve Clinical Pathology Accreditation for their

point of care testing Point-of-care testing (POCT or bedside testing) is defined as medical diagnostic testing at or near the point of care—that is, at the time and place of patient care. This contrasts with the historical pattern in which testing was wholly or most ...

in December 2011. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust was the first in the country to be awarded international ISO accreditation for emergency planning - April 2013. The 12

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s agreed in July 2015 that Stepping Hill Hospital should be one of the four centres for

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in the region. In July 2016 the trust announced plans that could reduce its staffing establishment by 7% after it ended 2015-16 with a deficit of £12.9 million. A new £20 million medical and surgical centre with 120 bed spaces, an acute medical unit, a surgical assessment unit, and a short stay surgical unit and 18 operating theatres opened in October 2016 for emergency and high risk general surgery. It has capacity for more than 30,000 operations every year. The trust formed a partnership, Stockport Together, with Stockport Council, the Stockport

and

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in 2017. The initial plans envisaged a single

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run by a new care trust, but later an alliance model to progress the integration plans and service developments was proposed. Adrian Belton took over as Chair in June 2017 and was replaced by Tony Warne in 2021. It was one of the beneficiaries of

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's announcement of capital funding for the NHS in August 2019, with an allocation of £30.6 million for a new Emergency Care Campus at Stepping Hill Hospital.

Performance

In the last quarter of 2015 it had one of the worst performances of any hospital in England against the four hour waiting target. The

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rated the A&E department inadequate both in safety and leadership in October 2017. They noted low nurse staffing levels and shift fill rates, poor compliance with the early warning score system and infection control. In 2017-18 only 78.7% of A&E patients were seen within four hours. The last

inspection, in February 2020, resulted in an overall finding of "requires improvement".

References

{{Authority control Health in Greater Manchester NHS foundation trusts

History

Performance

See also

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