Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
The Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust is an NHS Trust with an annual budget of about £121 million,[1] and employs 1,900 staff. It manages Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford, Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup, Erith and District Hospital and Elm Court.[2]
History
A proposed merger with Medway NHS Foundation Trust was called off in September 2013.[3]
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.[4]
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.[5]
In 2018 it forecast a deficit, for the fourth year in a row. It expects to make a loss of deficit of £20.4 million in 2018/9.[6]
See also
References
- ^ "Darent Valley Hospital: About us". Archived from the original on 11 March 2009. Retrieved 23 November 2008.
- ^ "Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust". Oxleas NHS Trust. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
- ^ "Dartford and Medway hospital trusts pull out of merger". BBC News. 15 September 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
- ^ "HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015". Health Service Journal. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
- ^ "Dartford's Darent Valley Hospital 'failing in MRSA control'". BBC News. 4 April 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ^ "Trust to miss financial plan for fourth straight year". Health Service Journal. 23 November 2018. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
