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• provider development – performance by Yorkshire Ambulance Services NHS
Trust was below national targets for both category A and B response times.
Details on this performance by ambulance services could be found later in the
chapter.
6.2.2 Secondary Care
District wide, there are three main hospitals; St Lukes, Bradford Royal Infirmary are
controlled by the Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and Airedale General
Hospital is operated by the Airedale NHS Trust. £70 million 60 of funding has been announced
in 2006 by the Trust for the modernisation and rationalisation of the 2 city hospitals which
involves land disposal, new buildings and refurbishment. Airedale General Hospital at
Steeton, is already undergoing significant expansion and refurbishment.
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for providing acute
hospital care services for the people of Bradford and neighbouring communities. It has
around 1,200 beds serving a community of over a million people, has an annual budget of
£230 million and employs over 5,000 staff. Continuous professional development for all
staffing groups is encouraged and supported within the foundation trust, which has Investors
in People accreditation.
The organisation is managed and led by the Board of Directors, which comprises of a
chairman, six non-executive directors, four executive directors and a chief executive. The
Board is responsible for approving policy, ensuring financial viability of the organisation and
monitoring performance.
Clinical services are provided from twelve clinical directorates each being led by a clinical
director and supported by a general manager.
Foundation trusts are new flagship hospitals in England and awarded to high performing
organisations. They were approved to be a foundation trust on April 1 2004 - one of the first
in the country, due to excellent performance, which has continued with the foundation trust
being rated as 'good' for use of resources and 'good' for quality of services, in the
Healthcare Commission's Annual Health Check.
In April 2007 The Foundation Trust were recognised as the third safest hospital in England
and the safest outside London with the rates of MRSA Bacteraemia reducing by 40% over
the last three years.
Based on the latest rate for patients who died in hospital between July 2007 and June 2008,
hospitals in Bradford and Airedale are among the safest in the country. Airedale General
Hospital is the safest hospital in the region and in the top five nationally, while Bradford’s
hospital appeared as the tenth safest in the country.
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