Updated 14 March 2018
Barnsley NHS foundation trust provides a range of acute hospital services to the Barnsley area which has an estimated population of 236,000.
The trust operates acute hospital services from one main hospital site: Barnsley hospital.
The trust employs around 3,500 people and has an annual income of around £173 million.
The trust provides a full range of acute clinical services. Barnsley hospital has 18 wards and 319 inpatient beds. The hospital has 26 day case beds, 47 maternity beds, 13 critical care beds and 20 beds for children and young people. It has an emergency department and provides acute medical and surgical services, including intensive care services to the population and visitors to the Barnsley and South Yorkshire area.
Health in Barnsley is affected by local deprivation, which is higher than the England average. Nearly one fifth (10,500) of children live in poverty. In 2015, Barnsley was the 39th most deprived local authority area of the 326 in England. This signifies that the area was in the 20% most deprived areas in the country. The health profile showed a number of indicators, such as life expectancy, smoking related deaths and levels of obesity were worse than the national average.
Barnsley clinical commissioning group (CCG), commission the majority of the trust’s services, based on the needs of their local population.
CQC carried out a comprehensive inspection of the trust in July 2015. We rated effective, caring and responsive as good and safe and well led as requires improvement. We rated the trust requires improvement overall and issued requirement notices in regard to compliance with Regulation 12: safe care and treatment and Regulation 18: staffing. The trust put action plans in place, which have been implemented and monitored by CQC.