Annual Report and Accounts - Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS ...

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Operating and Financial Review
Operating and Financial Review
● Background
This NHS Foundation Trust delivers healthcare
services from two main hospitals, Calderdale
Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.
We also delivered care from St Luke’s Hospital
and in a range of community settings.
We provide acute, or hospital-based,
health services for more than 435,000 people
in the areas served by Calderdale and Kirklees
Councils. Last year (2006/07) just under 90,000
men, women and children were cared for as
inpatients and almost 400,000 attended our
outpatient clinics. Added to that, our accident
and emergency departments at the two main
hospitals cared for just under 135,000 people.
The Trust was formed in April 2001, following
the merger of Calderdale Healthcare NHS Trust
and Huddersfield Healthcare Services NHS Trust.
The merger improved the Trust’s ability to
provide modern, high quality healthcare to the
communities of Calderdale and Huddersfield.
Further changes took place in April 2002
following the creation of four new local
health organisations. Calderdale, Huddersfield
Central and South Huddersfield Primary Care
Trusts came into being along with South
West Yorkshire Mental Health Trust.
In 2006 Huddersfield Central and South
Huddersfield Primary Care Trusts merged
with North Kirklees Primary Care Trust to
create the new Kirklees Primary Care Trust.
In 2006 the Trust applied for Foundation
Trust status and became an NHS Foundation
Trust from August 1 2006 under the Health and
Social Care (Community Health and Standards)
Act 2003. As a Foundation Trust we remain
part of the NHS family and are subject to the
same NHS quality standards, performance
ratings and systems of inspection. Foundation
Trust status allows us to work much closer with
local people and service users and helps us to
respond to the needs of our local communities.
The focus of the Trust is on clinically-led services
with consultants and clinicians taking the lead
role in the management of the organisation.
The clinical services are split into four divisions
- these are: Children and Women’s Services;
Medicine and Elderly; Surgery and Anaesthetics
and Diagnostic and Therapeutic services. A fifth
division contains the corporate directorates that
support the overall running of the organisation.
The Trust’s external auditors for the
period covered by this annual report are
the Audit Commission (Trust Practice).
The Trust has a nominated lead for countering
fraud and corruption and participates in the
National Fraud Initiative. A counter fraud
plan is approved each year by the Audit
Committee, which also receives regular
updates of progress against that plan.
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Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust