8-471: Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust runs Gloucestershire Royal Hospital , an NHS district general hospital in Great Western Road, Gloucester , England. It serves western and southern Gloucestershire and parts of Herefordshire . It also runs Cheltenham General Hospital . The trust is currently under the leadership of chair Peter Lachecki and chief executive Deborah Lee. The trust's vision
16-562: 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. The trust was placed into financial special measures in October 2016, after failings in financial governance were identified by the Board. The Care Quality Commission inspected the Trust in October 2018 and it was rated as 'Good' in
24-690: Is "Best Care for Everyone" and this is underpinned by their values of "Caring, Listening and Excelling". 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 £550 million, 960 beds, over 150,000 emergency attendances and 800,000 outpatient appointments each year. The Trust employs around 8,000 people, providing care for
32-670: The new building in 1914. The British Red Cross Society took over the west block for nursing war wounded in 1914 and the east block in 1915. The buildings were completed after the war. In 1930 the infirmary was transferred to the corporation and became known as Gloucester City General Hospital. On the introduction of the National Health Service in 1948 it was amalgamated with the Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary which had stood in Southgate Street. The hospital
40-541: The organisation will achieve its vision of "Best Care for Everyone". Gloucestershire Royal Hospital Gloucestershire Royal Hospital is an acute District General Hospital on the Great Western Road in Gloucester operated by the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust . In 1912, construction on a 149-bed infirmary started on Great Western Road. Patients were transferred to
48-572: 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
56-503: The report published in February 2019, which marked a positive improvement on the rating "Requires Improvement" in 2017. 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
64-420: Was rebuilt in the 1960s and eventually incorporated a new 11-storey tower, the work on which started in 1970 and was completed in 1975. A major expansion of the hospital was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in 2001. The works were carried out by Bilfinger at a cost of £35 million and the new facility opened in 2005. On 29 December 2010, the first great-grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II
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