The University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust was formed by a merger of
Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was a former NHS trust that ran Royal Derby Hospital and the London Road Community Hospital, both in Derby, together with outpatient and diagnostic services in a range of community hospitals, health ...
and
Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in July 2018.
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB) comprises the
Royal Derby Hospital
Royal Derby Hospital is one of two teaching hospitals in the city of Derby, the other being the London Road Community Hospital. It is managed by the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust.
History
The original hospital o ...
,
Queen's Hospital Queens is a borough of New York City.
Queens or Queen's may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Queens (group), a Polish musical group
* "Queens" (Saara Aalto song), 2018
* ''Queens'' (novel), by Stephen Pickles, 1984
* "Queens", a song by C ...
, in Belvedere Road, Burton,
Florence Nightingale Community Hospital
The Florence Nightingale Community Hospital, formerly the London Road Community Hospital, is a community hospital on London Road in Derby, England. It is managed by the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust. The other mai ...
in Derby, Sir Robert Peel Community Hospital in
Tamworth and Samuel Johnson Community Hospital in
Lichfield
Lichfield () is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. Lichfield is situated roughly south-east of the county town of Stafford, south-east of Rugeley, north-east of Walsall, north-west of Tamworth and south-west of B ...
.
In July 2019 the
Court of Appeal
A court of appeals, also called a court of appeal, appellate court, appeal court, court of second instance or second instance court, is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal. In much of t ...
decided that the trust had breached the 2002 contract for
junior doctor
In the United Kingdom, junior doctors are qualified medical practitioners working whilst engaged in postgraduate training. The period of being a junior doctor starts when they qualify as a medical practitioner following graduation with a Bachelor ...
s because their hours and rest periods had been underestimated by commercial software over some years. The case will affect other NHS employers and substantial arrears will be due.
The trust established a company, D-Hive, in 2016 to run commercial projects to raise money for healthcare services. It made a profit of £2.5 million over 5 years, but lost £361,679 in 2019 when the Derby Sound music festival was cancelled because of poor ticket sales.
References
External links
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NHS foundation trusts
Health in Derbyshire
Health in Staffordshire
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