Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust

Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust
TypeNHS trust
Established1 November 1991
Disbanded1 April 2020 (2020-04-01)
HospitalsBroomfield Hospital
Staff4,422 (2019/20)[1]

Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust was an NHS trust which ran Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, St Peter's Hospital in Maldon, St Michael's Hospital in Braintree and formerly St John's Hospital in Chelmsford until its closure in 2010.

A merger with Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was proposed in January 2018.[2] On 31 July 2019 the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care endorsed the merger and a provisional date of 1 April 2020 was agreed.[3]

  1. ^ "ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2018/19". Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Basildon, Southend and Broomfield hospitals back merger plans". BBC. 10 January 2018. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  3. ^ "Mid and South Essex University Hospitals Group CEO comments on IRP decision". Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust. 31 July 2019.