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Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust

NHS hospital trust

Field	Value
name	Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
logo	Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust logo.svg
start_date	1 November 1993
end_date
headquarters	Dartford, Kent, England
type	NHS trust
hospitals	{{Plainlist
chair	Jackie Craissati
chief_exec	Jonathan Wade
staff	4,422 WTE (2024/25)
website

Darent Valley Hospital
Erith and District Hospital
Gravesham Community Hospital Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust is an NHS trust which runs Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford and provides some services at Erith and District Hospital, Gravesham Community Hospital in Gravesend and Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

History

The trust was established on 1 November 1993 and became operational on 1 April 1994. A proposed merger with Medway NHS Foundation Trust was called off in September 2013.

Performance

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 2593 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.68%. 78% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 76% recommended it as a place to work.

Darent Valley Hospital had the highest rate and number of MRSA cases for NHS trusts in England in 2015. There were 14 cases of patients being infected between 1 April 2015 and 29 February 2016.

In 2018 it forecast a deficit, for the fourth year in a row. It expected to make a loss of deficit of £20.4 million in 2018/9.

It signed a five-year contract with Medirest in 2021 for catering, cleaning and security services, with 300 staff members transferring to the group. The company provides a robot used for the cleaning of the main corridors. There have been complaints that the contractor has cut supplies down "to the absolute basics" so it is difficult to get hand towels to fill the dispensers, bags to fill the bins or soap to fill the dispensers. The company denies this. It also says it has introduced free meals for all employees at Darent Valley who are able to access packed lunches.

References

"2024 2025 ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS".
"The Dartford and Gravesham National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993".
(15 September 2013). "Dartford and Medway hospital trusts pull out of merger". BBC News.
(7 July 2015). "HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015". Health Service Journal.
(4 April 2016). "Dartford's Darent Valley Hospital 'failing in MRSA control'". BBC News.
(23 November 2018). "Trust to miss financial plan for fourth straight year". Health Service Journal.
(13 November 2022). "Joke-telling vacuum robot under-fire at Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford". Kent on line.

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