Annual Report and Accounts 2012/13 - Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust

DIRECTORS’ REPORT
About us
• 24,633 admissions were made for planned
the Trust (25,267 in 2011/12) 3 operations and day surgery (23,385 in
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation
2011/12).
Trust was established on 1st April 2011 when
Monitor authorised The Hillingdon Hospital
NHS Trust to be an NHS Foundation Trust.
The Trust provides health services at two
hospitals in North West London: Hillingdon
and Mount Vernon. Hillingdon Hospital is the
only general hospital in the London Borough
of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of
services including accident and emergency,
inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics
and maternity services. The Trust’s services
at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine
In recent years our vision has been ‘to be
the best general hospital in the country’.
Given the significant amount of changes
underway in the environment in which we
operate, the Board agreed that there was a
need to update the Trust’s vision. Following
consultation with staff, in May 2013 the
Board agreed a new vision for the Trust that
will inform the 2013/14 business planning: ‘To
put compassionate care, safety and quality at
the heart of everything we do’.
day surgery at a modern treatment centre,
a minor injuries unit, and outpatient clinics.
The Trust also acts as a landlord to a number
of other organisations that
provide health services at Mount Vernon,
including East & North Hertfordshire NHS
Trust’s Cancer Centre.
The Trust’s turnover in 2012/13 was over
£190m and we employ over 2,500 staff.
The majority of our patients live in the
London Borough of Hillingdon but we
also provide healthcare to people living in
the surrounding areas of Ealing, Harrow,
Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, giving
us a total catchment population of over
350,000 people.
In 2012/13:
• 110,354 attendances were made to our
accident & emergency department and
minor injuries unit (108,719 in 2011/12)
• 4,205 babies were born in our maternity
unit (4,218 in 2011/12)
• 289,041 attendances were made as
outpatients (296,606 in 2011/12)
• 24,271 admissions were made for
emergency treatment across all parts of
3 This figure reflects all emergency admissions to the Trust; emergency admissions to inpatient wards increased (see page 7
for further information)
4 Directors’ report