Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is an NHS trust which runs Wycombe Hospital, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Amersham Hospital, Buckingham Community Hospital and Florence Nightingale Hospice in Buckinghamshire, England.
The trust was established as the Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust on 1 October 2002, and became operational on 1 April 2003. The trust changed to its current name on 1 November 2010.
Changes to hospital provision in the area have been made after neighbouring Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was taken over by Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in October 2014.
In October 2013 as a result of the Keogh Review the Trust was put into the highest risk category by the Care Quality Commission. It was put into a buddying arrangement with Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust.
In February 2014 the Trust announced it would invest ã5 million to create 150 new nursing jobs to cut down on agency staff. âÂÂBefore Christmas, we recruited 70 nurses and a further 97 nurses will be starting employment with the trust by April.â The trust spent ã19.3 million on agency staff in 2014/5.
A Care Quality Commission inspection in March 2014 found the trust had made âÂÂsignificant progressâ with âÂÂreal differences made in a relatively short time to improve quality and the patient experienceâÂÂ. Staff were said to be âÂÂcaring and compassionate and treated patients with dignity and respectâÂÂ. As a result, the trust was taken out of special measures in June 2014.
In February 2016 it was expecting a deficit of ã5.5 million for the year 2015/6.