Wye Valley NHS Trust

The Trust receives government funding for healthcare, and aims to provide the best possible facilities, equipment and environment for patients, services. Wye Valley NHS Trust – Best Dental Clinic in Hereford is the provider of healthcare services at Hereford County Hospital, which is based in the city of Hereford, along with a number of community services for Herefordshire and its borders. We also provide healthcare services at community hospitals in the market towns of Ross-on-Wye, Leominster and Bromyard.

The Trust exists to improve the wellbeing, independence and health of the people we serve.
Our workforce of around 3,000 provides a range of specialist and generalists functions. We have strong clinical network connections with trusts in Birmingham, Worcester, Gloucester and Cardiff.

With an annual turnover of around £180 million, serving a population of 180,000, the Trust is one of the smallest rural District General Hospitals in England. We work hard to deliver across traditional boundaries to provide integrated care in order to deliver a standard of care we would want for ourselves, our families and friends.

The Trust was England’s first integrated provider of acute, community and adult social care services bringing together Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust, NHS Herefordshire’s Provider Services (excluding Mental Health) and Herefordshire Council’s Adult Social Care services (under a Section 75 arrangement). The Section 75 arrangement with Herefordshire Council ended in September 2013 and the Trust no longer provides adult social care.

With an estimated annual turnover of around £180 million, we employ around 3,000 staff with the aim of building new relationships between our staff, patients, service users and their carers, and with the wider community.

In 2017 a ‘Foundation Group’ was created in partnership with South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT) and Wye Valley NHS Trust (WVT). In 2018 George Eliot Hospitals NHS Trust (GEH) joined the Group.

All three organisations face similar challenges and have a common strategic vision for how these can be solved. The Foundation Group model retains the identity of each individual trust whilst strengthening the opportunities available to secure a sustainable future for local health services.

There are numerous benefits for local communities across Warwickshire and Herefordshire including the provision of a wider platform to share best practice and improving whole system patient pathways.

Glen Burley is the Chief Executive at all three Trusts, with Managing Directors in post who are responsible for each individual organisation; Jayne Blacklay is Managing Director at SWFT, David Eltringham at GEH and Jane Ives at WVT.