Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust
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| Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Place | Luton (UK) |
| Organisation | |
| Care System | UK:NHS |
| Hospital Type | General |
| Services | |
| Emergency Dept. | Includes A&E |
| Beds | 500 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1937 (hospital) 2006 (foundation trust) |
| Links | |
| Website | Homepage |
| See also | Hospitals in the United Kingdom |
Contents |
[edit] Background
The L&D is a medium size general hospital with 500 inpatient beds. The hospital provides a comprehensive range of general medical and surgical services, including A&E, for over 300,000 people in Luton, Bedfordshire Hertfordshire and parts of Buckinghamshire. The Trust employs 3,400 staff, and has an annual spend (in 2005/06) of £140 million. Last year provided healthcare services for:
Over 71,000 inpatients and day case patients requiring surgery or medical attention
Over 200,000 outpatients who attend clinics
Over 80,000 people who attend the A&E department and
Over 4,000 babies who are born here. [1]
[edit] Board of Directors
The L&D NHS Foundation Trust is managed by a Board of Directors made up of a Non-Executive Chairman, a Chief Executive, Executive Directors and Non-Executive Directors.
Non-Executive Chairman - Professor Soraya Dhillon - Professor Soraya Dhillon has been Chairman of Luton and Dunstable Hospital since December 1999.
Chief Executive - Stephen Ramsden OBE - Stephen Ramsden OBE MBA has been Chief Executive of the Luton & Dunstable Hospital since 1998.
Executive Directors:
Roger Long - Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Corporate Services
Andrew Harwood - Director of Finance
Anthony Palmer - Director of Nursing & Clinical Services
Lynne Watson - Director of Personnel, Training Development
Dr Danielle Freedman - Medical Director
Dr Mark Alexander - Associate Medical Director (Training)
John Pickles - Associate Medical Director (Patient Safety)
Julie Wells - Director of Service Development
Non-Executive Directors:
Clifford Bygrave
Alison Clarke
Zafar Iqbal
Roger Stokoe
Bob Tattar
Alan Williams
[edit] Patient Safety
Luton and Dunstable has been a Safer Patient Initiative site since 2004. Reducing the hospital’s mortality rate was a priority for Chief Executive Stephen Ramsden, who believes that saving patient lives must be at the top of all chief executives’ agendas. “As accountable officers we should be deeply concerned about the avoidable deaths happening weekly in our own hospital,” Stephen says. “There should be nothing more important to a CEO than saving lives and demonstrating their staff they are interested in this.”[2]
[edit] Technology
The Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust has announced that it has been provided with a new speech driven system, the ContactPortal by Telephonetics, to improve call management and communications at the Trust. On average the Trust takes over 4000 phone calls per day from outside, plus thousands more internally. The ContactPortal acts as a virtual operator 24 hours a day, using speech recognition technology to answer, transfer and make telephone calls.[3]
[edit] Reports
The hospital's quality has been consistently good over previous years, with reports and surveys to demonstrate this. [4]
The 2007 annual report gave information such as the following: e Luton & Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (L & D) relates to 95 non-commercial studies. During this same time period (i.e. 1.4.2006 - 31.3.2007) 23 commercial studies [comprising 10 cancer, 6 obesity, 2 diabetes, 2 neurology, 1 cardiology, 1 obstetrics and gynaecology and 1 haematology] are ongoing. The breakdown of the 95 non-commercial studies is as follows:- Research Council work: 7 University work: 11 Charity work: 35 DH/NHS R&D Programme work: 9 Other work: 7 (i.e. Government Departments and their agencies, the EU and other foreign government departments) R&D outside of HSG (97) 32 - other work: 10 (i.e. other NHS Trusts, PCTs etc) R&D that has no external funder work ('own account'): 16 [5]
[edit] References
- ^ The Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust
- ^ An article from The Health Journal Luton and Dunstable has been a Safer Patient Initiative site since 2004. Reducing the hospital’s mortality rate was a priority for Chief Executive Stephen Ramsden, who believes that saving patient lives must be at the top of all chief executives’ agendas. “As accountable officers we should be deeply concerned about the avoidable deaths happening weekly in our own hospital,” Stephen says. “There should be nothing more important to a CEO than saving lives and demonstrating their staff they are interested in this.”
- ^ An article from TelecomWorldWire http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0ECZ/is_2005_May_13/ai_n13829901/pg_1
- ^ Healthcare Commision Reports and Services http://www.healthcarecommission.org.uk/yourlocalhealthservices/nhsa-zbyorganisationname.cfm?widCall1=customWidgets.content_view_1&cit_id=2637
- ^ Part of The Department of Health's R&D's annual report - stats http://www.nrr.nhs.uk/2007AnnualReports/2007Report.asp?O=638
