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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. As of April 2020, 217 extant trusts employed about 800,000 of the NHS's 1.2 million staff. [1]
Poole Hospital is authorised and regulated by Monitor, the independent regulator of NHS foundation trusts. For the period 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009, the Care Quality Commission 's annual assessment gave Poole Hospital an "excellent" rating for quality of services which includes: safety of patients, waiting times and cleanliness. [ 15 ]
Royal Bolton Hospital – Farnworth, near Bolton; Royal Lancaster Infirmary – Lancaster; Royal Liverpool University Hospital – Liverpool; Royal Manchester Children's Hospital; Royal Oldham Hospital – Oldham; Royal Preston Hospital – Preston; Salford Royal Hospital – Salford; Southport and Formby District General Hospital, Kew ...
GPs may join the trust as salaried staff. Subspecialty services in medicine and surgery and outpatient clinics would be provided by other trusts. [11] To reflect the change in approach, the trust's name was changed in 2016 from Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust. [12]
Foundation trusts were announced by Health Secretary Alan Milburn in 2002, [2] and the legislative basis was the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003. The first ten NHS hospitals to become foundation trusts were announced in 2004. [3]
It joined the National Health Service in 1948 and achieved NHS Trust status in 1994. [6] Following a major building programme, the Midlands Centre for Spinal Injuries re-opened in 2001. [2] The hospital was awarded NHS Foundation Trust status in August 2011. [6]
The trust's bid to become a Foundation Trust was hampered by its financial problems. Its application was repeatedly deferred but finally succeeded in February 2015. [ 8 ] It plans a cost improvement programme for the 2014/15 financial year of £45.2m and a further £45.8m for 2015/6 but expects to finish 2014/5 with a £10 million deficit.
The Trust was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time, it had 2511 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.25%. 65% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 64% recommended it as a place to work.