Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust was a

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of the

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in England, responsible for

Barnet Hospital Barnet Hospital is a district general hospital situated in Barnet, in North London. It is managed by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. Overview The original hospital on the site was the Wellhouse Hospital which was opened by Viscount ...

and

Chase Farm Hospital Chase Farm Hospital is a hospital in The Ridgeway, in Gordon Hill, Enfield, run by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. History The hospital has its origins in a Poor Law orphanage established in 1886. The oldest part of the hospital, ...

, both of which are in

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. On 1 July 2014 Barnet and Chase Farm NHS Foundation Trust became part of the

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (formerly the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust) is an NHS foundation trust based in London, United Kingdom. It comprises Royal Free Hospital, Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, as well as clinics r ...

, which now comprises

and the Royal Free Hospital. The Trust was formed in 1999 at a time when many hospitals were merged for administrative and managerial reasons, in an attempt to create organisations with sufficient 'critical mass' to deal with a range of patient services. However rationalisation of services between the hospitals was slow to materialise, due in part to the PFI structure of Barnet Hospital, and in part to the reluctance of the local population and politicians to countenance concentration of specific services at only one location. The two trust hospitals treat over 500,000 patients per year; these come not only from Barnet and

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but also from East Harrow, South Hertfordshire, West

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and

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. Plans to rationalise some services between the hospitals led to a number of protests, including the formation of the "

Save Chase Farm Save Chase Farm was a local British political party that stood against the closure of departments of Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield. Save Chase Farm's leaders were Catherine Wilkinson and Kieron McGregor. They were both elected as local councillor ...

" party (2006-2010) which at one time had two members elected to the local council of the

London Borough of Enfield The London Borough of Enfield () is a London borough in North London. It borders the London boroughs of Barnet to the west, Haringey to the south, and Waltham Forest to the southeast. To the north are the districts of Hertsmere, Welwyn Hat ...

. Final agreement to these changes, including the closure of the maternity and accident and emergency services at Chase Farm, came about in 2014. In May 2013, Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals released a YouTube video, 'Use This Handwash Style!', as part of a major new hand hygiene campaign. The video amended the lyrics to hit song Gangnam Style to remind staff about the seven stages of handwashing. Featuring over 300 members of staff from several departments washing their hands whilst dancing to the song, it became an unexpected online hit, averaging over a thousand views a day in the first week of its release. Staff from both hospital sites later made another music video – a Mariah Carey tribute entitled 'I Don't Want A Christmas With Flu' – to promote the use of flu vaccinations. This was released on YouTube in November 2013 and also became a minor viral hit, enthusiastically supported by both Mariah Carey's fan pages on Facebook and even the Metro newspaper. In October 2013 the trust was said to have the lowest spend on in-patient's meals in the country at £4.15 per day. In November 2013 it was revealed that more than 2000 patients waiting for surgery had not been registered on the waiting list, and that 242 had waited more than a year for treatment. It was said that this was a software problem. A review of 7,174 patients subject to delay by the Royal Free Trust in April 2015 found that one patient may have suffered “serious harm” and 39 “moderate harm”. 1,541 patients were sent to private providers between July 2014 and April 2015, predominately for endoscopy and ear, nose and throat treatments. The Trust predicted a deficit of £16.9m in 2013–14. Later in 2014 it was merged with

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Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust website
(archived 2014) {{Authority control Health in the London Borough of Barnet Health in the London Borough of Enfield Defunct NHS trusts

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