University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

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University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
Type NHS trust
Established1963
HeadquartersClifford Bridge Road
Coventry
CV2 2DX
Population1.7 million
Hospitals
ChairDame Stella Manzie [1]
Chief executiveProf Andy Hardy [1]
Staff10,000+ [2]
Website www.uhcw.nhs.uk OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust runs University Hospital Coventry and the Hospital of St. Cross situated in Rugby, Warwickshire. The trust works in partnership with the University of Warwick's Warwick Medical School.

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Development

The trust was one of five to benefit from a five-year, £12.5 million programme announced by Jeremy Hunt in July 2015 to bring in Virginia Mason Medical Center to assist English using their clinical engagement and culture tools including the Patient Safety Alert System and electronic dashboard. Hunt said "The achievements at Virginia Mason over the past decade are truly inspirational and I’m delighted they will now help NHS staff to learn the lessons that made their hospital one of the safest in the world – patients will see real benefits as a result." [3]

In 2019 the trust announced that it was dispensing with the services of Warwickshire and Solihull Blood Bikes, and their services would be replaced by a commercial contract with QE Facilities Limited, a subsidiary company of Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust. [4]

Research and teaching

The University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust works in partnership with the University of Warwick's Warwick Medical School on particular research themes and areas of clinical research as well as providing training and education for postgraduates. [5] [6]

Dr Raj Mattu, a consultant cardiologist was dismissed by the Trust in 2010. In 2001 he had exposed the cases of two patients who had died in crowded bays at Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry. In April 2014 an Employment Tribunal found "did not cause or contribute to his dismissal" and had been subject to "many detriments" by the trust as a consequence of being a Whistleblower. [7] He submitted a claim for damages of more than £6.5 million. Two locum consultants had to be hired cover his position. An independent £500,000 QC-led inquiry recommended in 2007 that Dr Mattu should be allowed to return to work. [8] In 2016 he was awarded compensation of £1.2 million. The judge found that he had done nothing to "cause or contribute" to his dismissal and he had been "unfavourably" treated by the trust. [9]

Performance

Four-hour target in the emergency department quarterly figures from NHS England Data from https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/ University Hospitals Coventry And Warwickshire NHS Trust A&E performance 2005-18.png
Four-hour target in the emergency department quarterly figures from NHS England Data from https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/

The trust keeps unusually high quality performance data and uses the VitalPac observations system, the Datix incident reporting tool and Allocate's HealthRoster staffing software. This formed the basis of a study, led by Alison Leary, professor and chair of healthcare and workforce modelling at London South Bank University along with colleagues Dr Rob Cook Wolfram and Dr Sarahjane Jones Birmingham City University at which demonstrated a significant relationship between the number of nurses on duty in hospitals and 40 indicators of patient care and outcomes. These included slips, trips and falls, sickness, blood pressure, respiratory rate and temperature. The study, commissioned by Jane Cummings of NHS England was leaked shortly after the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence abandoned its work on safe staffing in hospitals. [10]

It was the first large teaching trust in England to have eliminated two-year waiters for elective care in 2022. [11]

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