Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust runs
Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, an NHS district general hospital in Great Western Road,
Gloucester
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, England. It serves western and southern
Gloucestershire
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and parts of
Herefordshire
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. It also runs
Cheltenham General Hospital
Cheltenham General Hospital is an NHS district general hospital in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, run by Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It provides general hospital services including Accident and Emergency. The Trust headquart ...
.
The trust's vision is "Best Care for Everyone" and this is underpinned by their values of "Caring, Listening and Excelling".
History
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a large acute trust, delivering acute hospital services from two general hospital sites in Gloucester and Cheltenham, and maternity services from Stroud General Hospital. The trust was formed in 2002 by a merger of Gloucestershire Royal and East Gloucestershire NHS Trusts, has an annual operating income of £550million, 960 beds, over 150,000 emergency attendances and 800,000 outpatient appointments each year. The Trust employs around 8,000 people, providing care for the population of Gloucestershire and beyond.
In 2017, the trust investigated the establishing of a subsidiary company. On 28 February 2018, the trust board approved the recommendations which resulted in the creation of Gloucestershire Hospitals Subsidiary Company (trading as Gloucestershire Managed Services), to which 675 support staff were transferred on 1 April 2018. 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
The Value Added Tax Act 1994 (c. 23) is a UK tax law, concerning taxation of goods and services that fall within the scope of Value Added Tax (VAT). It came into force on 1 September 1994. The Value Added Tax Act 1983 was repealed and replaced by ...
provides a mechanism through which NHS trusts can qualify for refunds on contracted out services.
Performance
The trust was placed into financial
special measures
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In education (England and Wales)
Ofsted, the schools inspection agency for England and some British Overseas Ter ...
in October 2016, after failings in financial governance were identified by the Board.
The
Care Quality Commission
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inspected the Trust in October 2018 and it was rated as 'Good' in the report published in February 2019, which marked a positive improvement on the rating "Requires Improvement" in 2017.
Five-year strategic plan: 2019 - 2024
In 2019, the Trust set out a five-year strategic plan to transform hospital services and provide care for the next generation of patients at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Cheltenham General Hospital and Stroud Maternity Unit.
The plan, called ''Our Journey to Outstanding'', includes significant transformation that sets out how the organisation will achieve its vision of "Best Care for Everyone".
See also
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Healthcare in Gloucestershire
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List of NHS trusts
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References
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