- Seventy trusts allocated £56m between them out of £100m funding for A&E
- Winners include Salford Royal and smaller trusts like The Princess Alexandra
Seventy hospitals have been allocated a share of a £56m tranche from the £100m of capital funding ringfenced in the budget for accident and emergency departments.
The funding was made available by chancellor Philip Hammond to help trusts fund upgrades to their A&E departments, such as onsite GP facilities and other streaming models.
Prior to Theresa May calling a general election on 8 June earlier this week, the funding announcement had been expected next month. It was brought forward just hours before election purdah began at midnight on Friday. It is not clear when the remaining £44m will be allocated.
The money is spread across a wide range of trusts – from large providers leading chains like Salford Royal Foundation Trust (£500,000) to some of the smallest NHS trusts such as The Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust (£952,361). See all the allocations in the table below.
Colchester Hospital University FT and Barking Havering and Redbridge Trust, which both received £1m, were among several trusts with well documented performance problems to secure funding.
A Department of Health statement said: “The funding will be used by hospitals to meet the 95 per cent standard… The plans outlined by trusts include primary care streaming and co-locating GP practices within A&E departments to ensure patients are treated in the most appropriate setting.”
The investment is part of the NHS’s A&E plan, which has an overall goal of getting the system to meet the standard for 95 per cent of patients being treated within four hours by the end of 2018.
System leaders have held up Luton and Dunstable University Hospital FT’s A&E model as an exemplar of best practice for a streaming model, however other models accounting for local differences have been given funding.
Trusts that have secured funding to upgrade A&E
|
Trust (hospital) |
Agreed capital funding |
|
Gateshead Health Foundation Trust |
£380,000 |
|
North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust |
£1m |
|
North Tees and Hartlepool Foundation Trust |
£1m |
|
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust |
£1m |
|
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust |
£708,000 |
|
Warrington and Halton Hospitals Foundation Trust |
£1m |
|
Alder Hey Children’s Foundation Trust |
£624m000 |
|
The Mid Cheshire Hospitals Foundation Trust |
£750,000 |
|
Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust |
£337,500 |
|
Doncaster And Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust |
£386,000 |
|
Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust |
£1m |
|
South Tees Hospitals Foundation Trust |
£950,000 |
|
Royal Bolton Foundation Trust |
£600,000 |
|
Salford Royal Foundation Trust |
£500,000 |
|
Wigan, Wrightington and Leigh Foundation Trust |
£650,000 |
|
Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust (Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital) |
£915,000 |
|
Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust (Cheltenham General Hospital) |
£620,000 |
|
Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust (Gloucester Royal Hospital) |
£300,000 |
|
East Sussex Healthcare Trust (Conquest Hospital) |
£700,000 |
|
East Sussex Healthcare Trust (Eastbourne District Hospital) |
£985,000 |
|
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust |
£924,488 |
|
Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust |
£899,661 |
|
Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust |
£950,000 |
|
North Devon Healthcare Trust |
£1m |
|
Plymouth Hospitals Trust |
£1m |
|
Poole Hospital Foundation Trust |
£1m |
|
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust |
£960,000 |
|
East Kent Hospitals Foundation Trust (William Harvey Hospital) |
£362,124 |
|
East Kent Hospitals Foundation Trust (Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital) |
£514,401 |
|
Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust |
£996,000 |
|
The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals FT (Royal Bournemouth Hospital) |
£997,847 |
|
Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust |
£1m |
|
Royal Surrey County Hospital Foundation Trust |
£1m |
|
University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust |
£1m |
|
Western Sussex Hospitals Foundation Trust (St Richard’s Hospital) |
£1m |
|
Western Sussex Hospitals Foundation Trust (Worthing Hospital) |
£524,000 |
|
Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust |
£1m |
|
Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust |
£430,000 |
|
Torbay and South Devon Foundation Trust |
£897,000 |
|
Bedford Hospital Trust |
£850,000 |
|
Milton Keynes University Hospital Foundation Trust |
£995,000 |
|
Northampton General Hospital Trust |
£858,000 |
|
The Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust |
£952,361 |
|
East and North Hertfordshire Trust |
£596,976 |
|
Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust |
£1m |
|
James Paget University Hospitals Foundation Trust |
£1m |
|
North West Anglia Foundation Trust (Peterbrough City Hospital) |
£650,000 |
|
West Suffolk Foundation Trust |
£1m |
|
Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust (Addenbrookes) |
£998,433 |
|
Ipswich Hospital Trust |
£495,130 |
|
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust |
£1m |
|
Mid Essex Hospital Services Trust |
£1m |
|
Southend University Hospital Foundation Trust |
£1m |
|
Nottingham University Hospitals Trust |
£400,000 |
|
Burton Hospitals Foundation Trust |
£785,000 |
|
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust |
£1m |
|
Chesterfield Royal Hospital Foundation Trust |
£750,000 |
|
George Eliot Hospital Trust |
£1m |
|
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust |
£920,000 |
|
Wye Valley Trust |
£749,000 |
|
The Dudley Group Foundation Trust |
£1m |
|
Heart of England Foundation Trust |
£160,000 |
|
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust |
£1m |
|
Kingston Hospital Foundation Trust |
£983,600 |
|
Lewisham and Greenwich Hospitals Trust (Lewisham) |
£984,000 |
|
Lewisham and Greenwich Hospitals Trust (Greenwich) |
£810,000 |
|
Barts Health Trust (Whipps Cross) |
£617,874 |
|
Barts Health Trust (Newham) |
£400,000 |
|
Barking Havering and Redbridge Trust |
£1m |
|
London Northwest Healthcare Trust |
£170,000 |
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