The origins of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust can be traced back to the legislation under Section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, enacted by statutory order in October 1991, which transferred control of medical care in the Sheffield area over from the Sheffield Health Authority to four separate NHS trusts with effect from 1 November 1991: the Central Sheffield University Hospitals NHS Trust ; the Northern General Hospital NHS Trust; the Sheffield Children's NHS Trust; and the Weston Park Hospital NHS Trust. The trusts came into full operation on 1 April 1992, at which point the Sheffield Health Authority was dissolved. Lodge Moor Hospital closed in 1994, with its infectious diseases isolation section moving to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital and treatment of chest and spinal injuries transferring to the Northern General Hospital. That same year, the operation of Nether Edge Hospital was transferred to the newly-created Community Health Sheffield NHS Trust. Charles Clifford Dental Hospital was integrated within the Central Sheffield University Hospitals NHS Trust in 1995. On 1 April 1999, the Weston Park Hospital NHS Trust was merged into the Central Sheffield Universities NHS Trust, creating a major teaching hospital at the same time. In 2001, the Jessop Hospital for Women was closed and operations were transferred to the new Jessop Wing hospital adjacent to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. The Central Sheffield University Hospitals NHS Trust and the Northern General Hospital NHS Trust were merged on 1 April 2001 to create the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, covering almost all major medical facilities in the city under a single trust. On 1 July 2004, the new trust was granted Foundation status, becoming the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, the Sheffield Arena car park is being utilised as a drive-through phlebotomy service operated by the trust, the first of its kind in the country. This allows patients to attend for routine blood tests from within the isolation of their cars, reducing the requirement for patients to attend GPs or hospital clinics. The drive-through phlebotomy service opened on 8 April 2020 for patients with underlying health conditions, and was expanded to become available to all patients in the Sheffield area on 27 April.
Facilities
The organisation provides healthcare services for people in the Sheffield area and surrounding area of South Yorkshire and beyond. The trust provides a very wide range of specialities, and consists of two main parts.
The Central Campus, consisting of the Royal Hallamshire Hospital together with its Jessop Wing, Weston Park Hospital and the Charles Clifford Dental Hospital, all located between Broomhill and Broomhall in the West End. Areas of speciality covered include infectious diseases and tropical medicine, neurology, neurosurgery, urology and haematology.
The Northern General Hospital, containing an accident and emergency department, located in the northern suburbs around Longley, Firth Park, Grimesthorpe and Shiregreen. Areas of speciality covered include plastic surgery, respiratory medicine, cardiology.
The Trust was highlighted by NHS England as having 3 out of the 148 reported never events in England in the period from April to September 2013. The trust expects to finish 2015-16 with a deficit of more than £19 million as a result of changes to the NHS tariff. It was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 13,112 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 4.49%. 78% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 70% recommended it as a place to work.
