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Emergency Departments, ranking it within the top 10 for activity in England. The Trust provides a broad range of secondary care services as well as tertiary primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI), hyper-acute stroke services, vascular surgery, adult cystic fibrosis care, inpatient renal dialysis and plastic surgery.
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The Trust believes in a clinically led model of leadership, with services divided into 11 cross-site directorates, each led by a chief of service and supported by an associate director and head of nursing who act as a tri-led leadership along with leads in each of the professional allied healthcare
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agreed a package of support to the new Trust: £127.2m of public dividend capital and £59m of loan funding to support rebuilding and refurbishment of parts of the
Heatherwood site. It is planned to save £8m by sharing buildings and to make £28m from selling land at Heatherwood Hospital. The merged
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The Trust serves a population of approximately 800,000, spanning Surrey, NW Hampshire, East
Berkshire and South Buckinghamshire. The two acute sites are based at Frimley Park and Wexham Park Hospitals with Heatherwood Hospital serving as an elective base. The combined non-elective activity exceeds
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The Trust secured funding to build both a new emergency centre, as well as an upgraded maternity unit, at Wexham Park, and is building an elective centre at the
Heatherwood location due to be completed in Autumn 2021. The £10 million maternity unit was opened in January 2018 and the new emergency
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The trust planned to set up a wholly owned subsidiary company which would own all the trusts land and buildings and provide housekeeping, estates management, equipment maintenance, catering, procurement and security services. This would reduce the VAT bill and permit new staff to be employed on
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The Trust is led by a Trust Board consisting of 7 executive and 8 non-executive directors. Pradip Patel has been the Chair since 2016. Neil Dardis has been chief executive (CEO) since March 2018, having succeeded Sir Andrew Morris. The Board acts in a unitary fashion. In addition to the CEO, the
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executive team consists of the medical director, chief of nursing and midwifery, finance director, chief operating officer, director of digital and transformation and a director of human resources and facilities. All are full voting members.
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as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 4948 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3%. 89% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 77% recommended it as a place to work.
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As a foundation trust there is an elected council of governors. In May 2017 the trust decided to reduce the number of governors from 37 to 22, saying the council of governors needed to be more effective.
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Frimley Health, accepts staffing is "a concern", the trust paid locum or agency nurses, doctors and midwives for covering 41,055 shifts in 2016.
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