Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

History

The trust was established as Homerton Hospital NHS Trust on 24 December 1994, and became operational on 1 April 1995. It took over some of the services previously provided by the East London and The City Health Authority. It became a foundation trust on 1 April 2004, and was one of the first foundation trusts to be established.

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 3330 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.09%. 78% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 75% recommended it as a place to work.

Services

The trust provides the majority of its services from a single site, Homerton University Hospital, in Homerton in the London Borough of Hackney. It also provides community health services from a number of sites across Hackney and the City of London, and healthcare services at the Mary Seacole Nursing Home in Hoxton.

When the trust proposed in 2020 to extend its soft facilities management contract with ISS Mediclean until 2025 170 of the trust's 464 doctors complained to the chief executive that their colleagues in cleaning, portering, catering and security services received worse pay and worse terms and conditions than NHS employees, including only statutory sick pay.

Performance

The Commission inspected maternity services at the hospital in March 2015 and said they were "inadequate" for safety and "requires improvement" overall. None of the midwives they spoke to were aware of the deaths.

In April 2014 and again in February 2016 the CQC rated the A&E department as 'outstanding', the first emergency department to receive this rating.

It spent 8.9% of its total turnover on agency staff in 2014/5.

References

References

1. "Contact details".
2. "Annual Report and Accounts 2019/20".
3. "The Homerton Hospital National Health Service Trust(Establishment) Order 1994".
4. (7 July 2015). "HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015". Health Service Journal.
5. "Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Inspection report".
6. (19 June 2020). "Medics demand better terms for 'less valued colleagues'". Health Service Journal.
7. (17 August 2015). "East London maternity service 'inadequate' for safety". Health Service Journal.
8. "Homerton University Hospital".
9. (26 November 2015). "Agency spending: the real picture". Health Service Journal.