AH ANNUAL REPORT 2018

PERFORMANCE REPORT
OVERVIEW
The following section of the report is designed
to provide a broad overview of Alder Hey as an
organisation: what we are about, what we are aiming
to deliver for our patients and families, the risks to
achieving this and how successful we have been in the
last year.
ABOUT THE TRUST
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a
provider of specialist health care to over 275,000
children and young people each year. In addition to the
hospital site at West Derby in north Liverpool, Alder Hey
has a presence at a number of community outreach
sites and in collaboration with other providers, our
clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes
by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to
Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust
also provides inpatient care for children with complex
mental health needs at our Alder Park building in the
nearby borough of Sefton.
The Trust employs a workforce of 3,387 staff who
work across our community and hospital sites and as
a teaching and training hospital we provide education
and training to around 540 medical and over 500
nursing and allied health professional students each
year. In April 2017 Alder Hey welcomed 120 new
community staff from Liverpool Community Health
NHS Trust as part of the transfer of a number of
paediatric community services, including Speech and
Language Therapy, Physiotherapy and Community
Matrons.
Our operating turnover is £263m of which £213m
directly relates to the clinical services we provide; 33%
of our clinical income is non-specialised and 67% is
specialised. Our principal contract is with NHS England
for tertiary and quaternary care. The Trust also serves a
wide population base for secondary care with Liverpool
Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) hosting the £55m
contract on behalf of 21 associate CCG’s in the North
West of England. In addition we have a contract with of
£15m with commissioners in Wales.
Alder Hey offers a number of specialist services and
we are one of only two providers in the North West
designated to receive the specialist children’s top up
to national tariff for this work. We are one of the two
accredited major trauma units for children in the North
West and are also nationally commissioned as one of
four epilepsy surgical centres, a service we provide in
partnership with Manchester Children’s Hospital. As
the regional cardiac surgical centre we continue to lead
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust 8
Annual Report & Accounts 2017/18