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Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was an NHS foundation trust which ran Worthing Hospital, Southlands Hospital in Shoreham-by-Sea and St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, West Sussex, England and served a population of around 450,000 people across a catchment area covering most of West Sussex. It was formed through a merger in 2009 and started with a substantial inherited deficit, mortality issues and poor performance. It merged into University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust in 2021.
| Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | |
|---|---|
| Type | NHS foundation trust |
| Established | 1 April 2009 |
| Disbanded | 1 April 2021 |
| Hospitals | |
| Chief executive | Marianne Griffiths |
| Staff | 6,636 (2019/20)[1] |
| Website | www |
In April 2014 the maternity unit at Worthing and St Richard's was awarded the "level three" award by the Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts (CNST).[2]
Stroke services are provided at both sites. NHS England want to see them centralised on one site.[3]
The trust was established on 1 April 2009 following the dissolution and merger of the Royal West Sussex NHS Trust and the Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust.[4]
In July 2020 it announced plans to merge with Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust.[5] On 1 April 2021, the merger of the two NHS Trusts led to the creation of University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.[6]
In 2016 Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WSHFT) was rated as 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).[7] At the time it was one of only three acute trusts in the country to receive the health watchdog’s highest rating by the Care Quality Commission.[8]
Marianne Griffiths, the chief executive, was named chief executive of the year at the Health Service Journal awards in November 2016,[9] and the top chief executive 2018.[10] and again in 2019.[11] She adopted the Japanese Kaizen continuous improvement system and went on to manage the merged University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.[12]
In 2019 Marianne Griffiths was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire [13]
In 2019 Western Sussex Hospitals was the first non-specialist acute trust in the country to be rated ‘Outstanding’[14] in all the six key inspection areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).[15]
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