Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was one of the first ten
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 st ...
s in England in 2004. It ran
Peterborough City Hospital and
Stamford and Rutland Hospital. It was one of six centres used by the
Defence Medical Services
The Defence Medical Services (DMS) is an umbrella organisation within the Ministry of Defence in the United Kingdom. It consists of the Defence Medical Services Group, part of Strategic Command, the Royal Navy Medical Service, Army Medical Servic ...
. The trust merged with
Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust
Hinchingbrooke Hospital is a small district general hospital in Hinchingbrooke near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. Opened in 1983, it serves the Huntingdonshire area, and has a range of specialities as well as an emergency department and a materni ...
in 2017 to become
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust.
History
Established in 1993, Peterborough Hospitals NHS Trust comprised two hospitals, Peterborough District Hospital and Edith Cavell Hospital. In 2002 Stamford and
Rutland Hospital in
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, 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-we ...
joined the trust. In 2006 Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was rated one of the country's top performing NHS acute trusts and, in 2004, it became one of the first ten NHS foundation trusts in
England
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.
The new hospital in
Peterborough
Peterborough () is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, east of England. It is the largest part of the City of Peterborough unitary authority district (which covers a larger area than Peterborough itself). It was part of Northamptonshire until ...
was financed through the
Private Finance Initiative and has led the Trust into acute financial difficulties. It has an underlying deficit of £37 million a year on a turnover of £222 million. It is unclear how its financial problems can be resolved. In July 2016 the trust announced that it needed £650m of central financial support over the next 26 years to finance the £1.8 billion contract.
A redevelopment programme for Stamford Hospital was approved in October 2013.
In January 2014 it was reported that
Circle Health could table a rescue bid for the Trust involving partnering it with nearby
Hinchingbrooke Hospital. The bid never materialised, but in July 2016 it was announced that the two trusts were planning to merge in 2017.
Performance
The trust was one of 26 responsible for half of the national growth in patients waiting more than four hours in accident and emergency over the 2014/5 winter.
It spent £18.7 million, 7.5% of its total turnover, on agency staff in 2014/5.
See also
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Healthcare in Cambridgeshire
Healthcare in Cambridgeshire was the responsibility of NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group until July 2022. This was one of the largest in the United Kingdom.
History
From 1947 to 1965, NHS services in Cambridgeshi ...
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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 ...
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