Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust is the principal healthcare provider to 258,000 people across Southport, Formby and West Lancashire.

Type of Trust
NHS hospital trust
Trust Details
Last annual budget
Employees 3,013
Chair Neil Masom
Chief Executive Trish Armstrong-Child
Website Southport and Ormskirk
Care Quality Commission reports CQC

Services

The Trust provides care at Southport and Formby District General Hospital and Ormskirk and District General Hospital.[1] In 2018/19, 2,250 babies were born at the maternity unit at Ormskirk hospital.

The Trust is the home of the North West Regional Spinal Injuries Centre[2] which provides care for spinal patients from across the North West, North Wales and the Isle of Man. The centre provides treatment of people who require permanent mechanical ventilation following spinal cord injury.

Sefton Sexual Health[3] provides services from clinics in Bootle and across the borough of Sefton.

A specialist Wheelchair Service[4] for patients registered with GPs in Chorley and South Ribble operates from Pimbo, near Skelmersdale.

Performance

The Trust was rated "requires improvement" following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission in November 2019. Further information about the Trust can be found in its annual reports. The Trust was recently identified as one of the worst in the country for patients undergoing orthopaedic surgery. Patients undergoing hip joint replacement surgery in this hospital were much more likely to need major revision surgery than if performed elsewhere in the UK.[5][6][7]

History

In 1948 there were seven hospitals in Southport: Southport General Infirmary, the Promenade Hospital, Greaves Hall Hospital, Fleetwood Road Hospital, New Hall Hospital run by Ramsay Health Care UK and, for maternity services, St Katherine’s and the Christiana Hartley unit.

The present organisation was formed from the merger of acute hospital services in Southport and Ormskirk in 1999.

NHS community services were acquired from the former NHS Sefton and NHS Central Lancashire primary care trusts in April 2011.

The trust's adult community care and walk-in service contracts in West Lancashire were awarded to Virgin Care in autumn 2016. The Southport and Formby contracts were awarded to Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust. Both contracts became effective from May 2017.[8]

Chief executive Jonathan Parry, Chief Operating Officer Sheilah Finnegan, and Sharon Partington, Director of Human Resources, were all excluded from work in August 2015 after complaints by whistleblowers relating to a "serious employment issue".[9] Partington subsequently resigned. Parry was dismissed and Finnegan was cleared but retired.[10]

See also

References
  1. "NHS - Southport & Ormskirk NHS Hospital Trust - About Us". Southportandormskirk.nhs.uk. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
  2. "Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust - Spinal Injuries Homepage". Southportandormskirk.nhs.uk. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
  3. Sefton Sexual Health
  4. Wheelchair Service
  5. Traynor, Luke (16 September 2018). "Dad left jobless and popping Tramadol after doctors missed problem TEN TIMES". liverpoolecho. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
  6. Donnelly, Laura; Roberts, Lizzie (12 October 2019). "Revealed: The best and worst places to have your hip operation". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
  7. "Hip, hip hooray? Not at Ormskirk hospital..." Check |url= value (help). ormskirk. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
  8. "Virgin wins contracts worth £65m". Health Service Journal. 22 November 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  9. "Southport and Ormskirk NHS bosses suspended following complaints". BBC News. 4 August 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  10. "Trust director would have been sacked for 'gross misconduct'". Health Service Journal. 11 November 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
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