Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
{{Short description|NHS foundation trust in South Yorkshire, England}}
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The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust operates Rotherham General Hospital in South Yorkshire, England. It was previously Rotherham General Hospitals NHS Trust before becoming an NHS Foundation Trust in 2005.
The Trust was featured in Can Gerry Robinson Fix the NHS? an Open University BBC series shown on BBC2 from 8 January 2007 to 10 January 2007.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3346920/Sir-Gerry-Robinson-How-I-would-fix-the-NHS.html|title=Sir Gerry Robinson: How I would fix the NHS|date=9 January 2007|newspaper=The Telegraph|accessdate=7 December 2018}}
In October 2012 the Trust announced that it needed a "smaller hospital, with substantially fewer beds".{{cite news|title=Rotherham Hospital to cut 750 jobs by 2015|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-20092315|accessdate=1 November 2013|newspaper=BBC News|date=26 October 2012}}
In October 2013 its future independence was under consideration.{{cite news|title=Hunt urged to intervene to halt merger moves for hospital trust|url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/general-news/hunt-urged-to-intervene-to-halt-merger-moves-for-hospital-trust-1-6181272|accessdate=1 November 2013|newspaper=Yorkshire Post|date=25 October 2013}} The Trust recorded a deficit of £3.5 million in 2012–13 but predicted a surplus of £3.3 million in 2013–14.{{cite news|title=More than a third of trusts predict year-end deficit|url=http://www.lgcplus.com/briefings/joint-working/health/more-than-a-third-of-trusts-predict-year-end-deficit/5068876.article|accessdate=16 March 2014|newspaper=Local Government Chronicle|date=13 March 2014}}
The Trust was one of the first to abandon the National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT) electronic patient records system in 2009 and adopt the MEDITECH system.{{cn|date=June 2025}} The system has been live since 2012 and is the Trust's main acute EPR system with SystmOne in use in the Community setting.{{cn|date=June 2025}}
Performance
File:The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust A&E performance 2005-18.png Data from https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/]]
In 2015 the Trust declared a serious incident after discovering a patient had waited 66 weeks for an operation. They discovered five more people who had also waited more than a year for treatment. 93.4% of patients at the trust referred for day-case or inpatient treatment received it within 18 weeks in January 2015, within the target of treating 90% of non-urgent cases in 18 weeks.{{cite news|title=Patient's 66-week wait for surgery triggers checks on 13,000 records|url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/general-news/patient-s-66-week-wait-for-surgery-triggers-checks-on-13-000-records-1-7134993|accessdate=22 March 2015|work=Yorkshire Post|date=3 March 2015}}
The trust spent £13.2 million on agency staff in 2014/5.{{cite news|title=Agency spending: the real picture|url=http://www.hsj.co.uk/hospitaltransformation/workforce/agency-spending-the-real-picture/7000191.article|accessdate=23 December 2015|work=Health Service Journal|date=26 November 2015}} The trust was among the three worst nationally over care for women giving birth.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jan/30/nhs-leaves-one-in-four-mothers-alone-during-labour-or-childbirth |title=NHS leaves one in four mothers alone during labour or childbirth |work=The Guardian |accessdate=1 February 2018}}
In the most recent Care Quality Commission inspection report, published on 31 January 2019, the trust was rated overall as requiring improvement.{{cite web|url=https://www.cqc.org.uk/provider/RFR|title = The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust|accessdate=19 December 2019}}
Integrated Community Services
From 1 April 2011, a number of services previously provided by Rotherham Community Health Services and Doncaster Dental Care merged with The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust creating a combined acute and community provider organisation.{{cite magazine|magazine=News Week|date=6 April 2011|url=http://www.therotherhamft.nhs.uk/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=1379|title=Merger with Rotherham Community Health Services |accessdate=19 December 2019}}