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THE NHS trust which runs Worthing and Southlands hospitals has received the highest level of recognition.
Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust, which also runs St Richard?s Hospital, Chichester, has been named as a Foundation Trust ? the first acute trust in Sussex to be awarded the status.
The formal change of status will take place on July 1, which will mark the culmination of a three-year process to demonstrate to independent Foundation Trust regulator Monitor and the Department of Health that the trust is worthy of being given new freedoms.
Trust spokesman Nick Brooks said: ?Becoming a Foundation Trust has grown increasingly hard in recent years, as the standards demanded for approval have grown more stringent ? across the country, only one other acute trust has been granted the elite ?FT status? in the last 14 months.
http://www.shorehamherald.co.uk/news/hospital-staff-are-praised-as-trust-given-top-status-1-5187739
Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust, which also runs St Richard?s Hospital, Chichester, has been named as a Foundation Trust ? the first acute trust in Sussex to be awarded the status.
The formal change of status will take place on July 1, which will mark the culmination of a three-year process to demonstrate to independent Foundation Trust regulator Monitor and the Department of Health that the trust is worthy of being given new freedoms.
Trust spokesman Nick Brooks said: ?Becoming a Foundation Trust has grown increasingly hard in recent years, as the standards demanded for approval have grown more stringent ? across the country, only one other acute trust has been granted the elite ?FT status? in the last 14 months.
http://www.shorehamherald.co.uk/news/hospital-staff-are-praised-as-trust-given-top-status-1-5187739