Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provided healthcare for people in south west Essex, in the East of England.
[3] 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.
In January 2015 he stepped down after being selected as the UKIP candidate for South Basildon and East Thurrock.
[12] In November 2009, the Care Quality Commission found some places in Basildon Hospital to have stained floors and curtains, blood-splattered trays, badly soiled mattresses, equipment still used after the use-by date, and so on.
[13] The latest CQC inspection of Basildon Hospital in March 2014 found significant improvements.
[18] The trust described how a radical overhaul of its corporate governance structure and risk management improved its safety record.
[19] In 2014/5 the trust was given a loan of £10.6 million by the Department of Health which was supposed to be paid back in five years but has in fact already been repaid.
The alternative name for the station is BHR1287 and can be listened to not only in the hospital but outside on am radio 1287 locally and on various music apps nationally.