Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
TypeNHS foundation trust
Established1 April 2009
Disbanded1 April 2021
Hospitals
Chief executiveMarianne Griffiths
Staff6,636 (2019/20)[1]
Websitewww.westernsussexhospitals.nhs.uk Edit this at Wikidata
Worthing Hospital
Southlands Hospital
St Richard's Hospital

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was an NHS foundation trust which ran Worthing Hospital, Southlands Hospital in Shoreham-by-Sea and St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, West Sussex, England and served a population of around 450,000 people across a catchment area covering most of West Sussex. It was formed through a merger in 2009 and started with a substantial inherited deficit, mortality issues and poor performance. It merged into University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust in 2021.

In April 2014 the maternity unit at Worthing and St Richard's was awarded the "level three" award by the Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts (CNST).[2]

Stroke services are provided at both sites. NHS England want to see them centralised on one site.[3]

History

The trust was established on 1 April 2009 following the dissolution and merger of the Royal West Sussex NHS Trust and the Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust.[4]

In July 2020 it announced plans to merge with Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust.[5] On 1 April 2021, the merger of the two NHS Trusts led to the creation of University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.[6]

Performance

In 2016 Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WSHFT) was rated as 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).[7] At the time it was one of only three acute trusts in the country to receive the health watchdog’s highest rating by the Care Quality Commission.[8]

Marianne Griffiths, the chief executive, was named chief executive of the year at the Health Service Journal awards in November 2016,[9] and the top chief executive 2018.[10] and again in 2019.[11] She adopted the Japanese Kaizen continuous improvement system and went on to manage the merged University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.[12]

In 2019 Marianne Griffiths was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire [13]

In 2019 Western Sussex Hospitals was the first non-specialist acute trust in the country to be rated ‘Outstanding’[14] in all the six key inspection areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).[15]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Annual Report and Accounts 2019 / 20" (PDF). Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  2. ^ "MP praises safe maternity care - Western Sussex Hospitals". Western Sussex Hospitals. 15 April 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
  3. ^ "Regulators tell county to look again at centralising stroke services". Health Service Journal. 8 October 2018. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  4. ^ "The Western Sussex Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) and the Royal West Sussex National Health Service Trust and the Worthing and Southlands Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 2009". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  5. ^ "Merger set to create region's first mega trust". Health Service Journal. 6 July 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  6. ^ "'Outstanding' trust's takeover of neighbour gets the go-ahead". Health Service Journal. 19 March 2021. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
  7. ^ "Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust". www.cqc.org.uk. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
  8. ^ "'Outstanding' trust's chief reveals turning point". Health Service Journal. 20 April 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
  9. ^ "'Selfless and devoted' leader named chief executive of the year". Chichester Observer. 30 November 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  10. ^ "Top chief executives 2018". Health Service Journal. 12 March 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  11. ^ Mclellan2019-03-25T04:32:00+00:00, Alastair. "Griffiths heads Top 50 chief executives ranking for second year". Health Service Journal. Retrieved 28 March 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ Hunt, Jeremy (2022). Zero. London: Swift Press. p. 114. ISBN 9781800751224.
  13. ^ "New Year Honours list 2019". GOV.UK. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  14. ^ "Outstanding hospitals sweep the board!". Western Sussex Hospitals. 22 October 2019. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  15. ^ "Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust". www.cqc.org.uk. Retrieved 28 October 2019.