Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS foundation trust based in Salisbury that covers South Wiltshire, North and East Dorset and South West Hampshire. It gained foundation trust status in 2006. Its main site is Salisbury District Hospital, a large general hospital.
| Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust | |
|---|---|
| Type | NHS foundation trust |
| Established | 1 November 1993 |
| Headquarters | Odstock Road Salisbury SP2 8BJ[1] |
| Hospitals | Salisbury District Hospital |
| Chief executive | Stacey Hunter |
| Website | www |
Stacey Hunter, who began her career as a nurse, was appointed as chief executive officer in June 2020.[2]
Structure
editIn 2013 the trust established a subsidiary company, Salisbury Trading Limited, providing laundry services, to which 77 estates and facilities staff were transferred. The intention was to achieve VAT benefits, as well as pay bill savings, by recruiting new staff on less expensive non-NHS contracts. VAT benefits arise because NHS trusts can only claim VAT back on a small subset of goods and services they buy. The Value Added Tax Act 1994 provides a mechanism through which NHS trusts can qualify for refunds on contracted-out services.[3]
In 2018, the trust agreed to form an alliance with two neighbouring trusts which manage the hospitals at Swindon and Bath; the three trusts provide most of the hospital services in the Bath, North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire sustainability and transformation plan area.[4] Effective November 2024, Cara Charles-Barks – chief executive of the Bath trust – was appointed as the joint chief executive of the three trusts.[5]
Performance
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In September 2014 the trust was placed in the top 100 healthcare employers in the country by the Best Companies Group on the basis of a staff survey on quality of leadership, staff communications, training and development and the working environment.[6] It 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 2752 full time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.37%. 83% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 75% recommended it as a place to work.[7]
The trust decided to implement a Lorenzo patient record system in August 2015. It expects cash releasing savings of £12m over 10 years.[8]
In March 2016 the Trust was ranked fifth in the Learning from Mistakes League.[9]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust". NHS England. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
- ^ Ford, Steve (25 June 2020). "Nurse replaces nurse as chief executive of Wiltshire acute trust". Nursing Times. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
- ^ "In full: Trusts with staff transfer plans". Health Service Journal. 14 February 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
- ^ "Three hospital trusts to form alliance". Health Service Journal. 19 June 2018. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
- ^ "New Joint CEO appointed for hospital trusts across the region". Bath Echo. 24 October 2024. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
- ^ "Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust placed in top 100 healthcare employers in country". Blackmore Vale Magazine. 9 September 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ^ "HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015". Health Service Journal. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
- ^ "Salisbury NHS signs up to Lorenzo electronic patient record system". Computer Weekly. 21 August 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
- ^ "Trusts ranked in 'learning from mistakes' league". Health Service Journal. 9 March 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2016.