1. Research and teaching

2. Performance

3. See also

4. References

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust runs University Hospital Coventry and the Hospital of St. Cross situated in Rugby, Warwickshire.

The trust ended 2014–15 with a deficit of £16.9 million, against a planned surplus at the beginning of the year of £1.8m. In 2014–15 there were nine cases of MRSA in eight patients compared with a target of zero and a usual number of two or fewer in previous years.^[1]

The trust was one of five to benefit from a five-year, £12.5m 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." ^[2]

Research and teaching

The University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust works in partnership with Warwick Medical School on particular research themes and areas of clinical research as well as providing training and education for postgraduates.^[3][4]

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.^[5] 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.^[6] 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.^[7]

Performance

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.^[8]

See also

• Healthcare in West Midlands
• List of NHS trusts

References

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