Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Created December 2010 (2010-12)
Region served Chertsey and Ashford, Surrey, England
Type NHS hospital trust
Chair Aileen McLeish
Chief Exec Suzanne Rankin
Website www.ashfordstpeters.nhs.uk

Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a medium sized district general hospital working across two sites in Surrey: St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey and Ashford Hospital.[1]

History

Ashford Hospital was developed from the former Staines Workhouse Infirmary which had been operated as an emergency hospital during World War II. St Peter's had been developed on the Botleys Park site in Chertsey.[2]

Ashford Hospital & St. Peter’s Hospital NHS Trusts were merged on 1 April 1998. It became a Foundation Trust in December 2010.

A plan for the trust to take over Epsom General Hospital was abandoned in October 2012 by NHS London board because a financially viable plan for the future of Epsom hospital as part of the merged trust could not be developed.[3] In May 2014 it was reported that the Trust was proposing to merge with Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.[4] The proposed merger was abandoned in November 2016. [5]

Perfromance

In October 2013 the trust was categorised as a band six, the best rating, in a hospital intelligence monitoring report published by the Care Quality Commission.[6]

The Trust did poorly in the last cancer patient experience survey and has agreed to pair up with St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which did very well, in a scheme intended to “spread and accelerate innovative practice via peer to peer support and learning”.[7]

Two of Ashford Hospital’s wards, used by the elderly for rehabilitation care, were closed in June 2015 after a review carried out by the Clinical Commissioning Group found patients recovered better away from acute hospitals. Rehabilitation will in future be at Walton Community Hospital, Woking Hospital, nursing homes or at patients' own homes.[8]

Suzanne Rankin, the Chief Executive, was formerly senior nursing officer with Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service where she served in the first Gulf War.[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Ashford & St Peter's". Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  2. ↑ "Timeline". Ashford & St Peters NHS Trust.
  3. ↑ "Epsom Hospital merger with Ashford and St Peter's called-off". Elmbridge Guardian. 25 October 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  4. ↑ "Ashford and St Peter's chief executive to step down". Health Service Journal. 20 May 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
  5. ↑ "Foundation trusts call off merger". Health Service Journal. 8 November 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
  6. ↑ "Highest rating for Ashford and St Peter's". Elmbridge Guardian. 30 October 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  7. ↑ "'Pioneering' cancer care buddying scheme launched". Health Service Journal. 20 February 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  8. ↑ "Ward closures announced at Ashford Hospital following CCG review". 16 June 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  9. ↑ "Leadership Q&A: Leading with military precision". Health Service Journal. 2 June 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015.

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