22-679: The Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust runs the Royal United Hospital (RUH), a major acute-care hospital in Bath , England. The trust also runs the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases (since 2015) and Sulis Hospital at Peasedown St John (since 2021). In 2011, the RUH applied to become authorised as an NHS foundation trust from late Spring 2012, but this was postponed after issues were raised by
44-586: A catchment population of around 500,000 people in Bath and the surrounding towns and villages in North East Somerset and west Wiltshire. The hospital provides healthcare to the population served by three clinical commissioning groups (CCG): Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire CCG; Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire CCG; and Somerset CCG. The Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership offers services at Hillview Lodge on
66-526: A critical Commission for Health Improvement report and zero-star rating in 2002 after a determination of "deliberate manipulation" of waiting lists. Following this the trust terminated the Chief Executive's contract, but in a subsequent employment tribunal case the former Chief Executive was awarded £218,439 for unfair dismissal with the tribunal rejecting allegations of neglect over misreporting waiting list numbers. Progress has been made since 2006 on
88-667: A dedicated building at the RUH site in November 2017. The last rheumatic diseases services were transferred to the RUH site in autumn 2019. Sulis Hospital at Peasedown St John , about 6 miles (10 km) south of the Combe Park site, provides both NHS and privately-funded treatment and operates as a subsidiary of the RUH. The hospital was built in 2010 by Circle Health and bought by the NHS in 2021. The hospital provides acute treatment and care (including Accident & Emergency) for
110-492: A five-year £110M development plan was confirmed; it included a new cancer centre, pharmacy, integrated therapies unit, pathology block, IT centre and 400 extra public car parking spaces. In 2015 and 2016, some services were transferred from the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases to the RUH, including endoscopy and children's services, following that hospital's takeover by the RUH Trust. Construction started on
132-408: A plan to repay historic debt by 2013. In February 2008, Conservative peer Lord Mancroft made a scathing attack on nursing staff at the hospital, claiming that many nurses who looked after him were "promiscuous, lazy and grubby". 51°23′30″N 2°23′28″W / 51.3917°N 2.3910°W / 51.3917; -2.3910 Royal United Hospital The Royal United Hospital ( RUH )
154-455: Is a major acute-care district general hospital in the Weston suburb of Bath , England, which lies approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of the city centre. The hospital has 565 beds and occupies a 52 acres (21 ha) site. It is the area's major accident and emergency hospital, with a helicopter landing point on the adjacent Lansdown Cricket Club field. The hospital is operated by
176-602: The Care Quality Commission about aspects of patient care. The process was restarted in 2014. It was authorised as a Foundation Trust in October 2014. The trust's chief executive is Cara Charles-Barks, who took over in September 2020 on the retirement of James Scott. The trust coordinates its work with the two Wiltshire trusts, Great Western and Salisbury . In November 2024, Charles-Barks was appointed as
198-401: The Royal United Hospital in Bath were "grubby, drunken and promiscuous". The hospital's Chief Executive, James Scott, called the accusations "damaging and distressing", and requested that the peer retract them. Mancroft met him but refused to apologise. In November 2020, Mancroft was involved in an online zoom webinar conspiring to actively flout the 2004 ban on hunting with hounds . At
220-681: The Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust . The Royal United Hospital takes its name from the union of the Bath Casualty Hospital founded in 1788, and the Bath City Dispensary and Infirmary founded in 1792. The Casualty Hospital was founded in response to the serious injuries sustained to labourers working on the buildings which were being constructed in the city. The Dispensary and Infirmary developed from
242-576: The 3rd Baron Mancroft . He entered the House of Lords on 23 February 1988 and sits as a Conservative . In 1999 he was one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999 . Lord Mancroft has been married to Emma Peart, daughter of Thomas Peart and his wife Gabriel, since 20 September 1990; they have one daughter and two sons: In February 2008, Mancroft claimed that NHS nurses who had treated him at
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#1732786543372264-662: The Bath Eye Infirmary, both located elsewhere in Bath. In July 2011, the Dyson Centre for neonatal care opened for premature babies. Over half of the £6.1 million cost was raised by the hospital's charity, the Forever Friends Appeal. In 2008, plans were revealed for a £100M redevelopment of the pre- Second World War RUH North buildings, which would include an increase in single-occupancy rooms in line with Government targets. In 2014,
286-674: The Bath Pauper Scheme, a charity founded in 1747 to provide medical treatment for destitute persons in Bath. The combined institution opened in a building designed by John Pinch the elder in Beau Street as the Bath United Hospital in 1826. It was awarded the title "Royal" by Queen Victoria in 1864 when a new wing, named the Albert Wing after the recently deceased Prince Consort, opened. This building
308-455: The Bath and Wessex Orthopaedic Hospital, both founded in 1924 and which merged into the RUH about 1980. The former manor house on the site, originally medieval but remodelled in the 18th century, became an administrative building. The building is a Grade II* listed building due to its fine Adam style interior. In 1959, the hospital absorbed the Ear Nose and Throat Hospital and in 1973,
330-708: The RUH were operated under contract, and had not been run by the Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust since its foundation in 1992 until 1 June 2014, after the contract had been retendered for three years by the NHS Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group. The Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust had run the service immediately prior to 2014. The trust ran a deficit most years from 1992 to 2009, with very large deficits from 2002 to 2006, creating an historic debt of £38M by 2008. It also received
352-459: The capacity will still be used for private work. It is called Sulis Hospital and is at Peasedown St John , about 6 miles (10 km) south of the Combe Park site. It is used for high-volume and low-complexity work and more than 1,100 two-year NHS waiters were treated at Sulis in 2021/2. Private activity increased from 33% in 2019-20 to 40% in 2021-22. By 2010, the rates of hospital-acquired MRSA and Clostridioides difficile infection were below
374-405: The first joint chief executive of the three trusts. In 2008, plans were revealed for a £100 million redevelopment of the pre- World War II RUH North buildings, which would include an increase in single-occupancy rooms in line with Government targets. The first stage of this work was originally planned to start in 2012. In 2014, a five-year development plan, incorporating a new cancer centre,
396-545: The national average. In 2010, Dr Foster Hospital Guide reported that RUH mortality rates give no cause for concern. In 2010, Which? judged that the RUH had the best hospital car parking regime in England. 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 3,852 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.85%. It
418-683: The north of the site and at Bath NHS House to the south of the site. Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft Benjamin Lloyd Stormont Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft (born 16 May 1957), is a British peer , businessman and Conservative Party politician. Mancroft was born on 16 May 1957. He is the son of the 2nd Baron Mancroft and Diana Lloyd. He was educated at Eton College , an all-boys public school in Berkshire. In 1987 he succeeded to his father's titles and became
440-471: Was confirmed. The trust which ran the specialist Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases was taken over by the RUH Trust in 2015. In 2019 the hospital moved from its historic building in central Bath to a new building adjacent to the main RUH building at Combe Park. In 2021 the trust bought the private hospital, Circle Bath, from Circle Health . This gives the trust a separate cold elective site and will be used to increase diagnostic capacity. 30% of
462-537: Was later occupied by Bath College . The hospital moved to its present site, Combe Park, on 11 December 1932. The site had previously been used for the large First World War Bath War Hospital , which opened in 1916. In November 1919, it was renamed the Bath Ministry of Pensions Hospital, which it remained until it closed in 1929. The site was also used by the Forbes Fraser Hospital and
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#1732786543372484-501: Was recommend it as a place for treatment by 75% of staff and as a place to work by 68%. The Consultant Connect service, established at the trust in July 2015, allows GPs to speak directly with a consultant to get specialist advice in real-time. It is now widely used across the NHS and has meant that at least 18,500 patients have been spared an outpatient hospital visit. Maternity services at
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