Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the largest of the United Kingdom's current 140 NHS Foundation Trusts. The Chief Executive is Sir Andrew Cash and the Medical Director Professor Michael Richmond.
The organisation provides healthcare services for people in the Sheffield area and surrounding area of South Yorkshire and beyond. The trust provides a very wide range of specialities, and consists of two main parts.
1) the West Campus, consisting of the Royal Hallamshire Hospital (a large acute hospital) together with its Jessop Wing (for fertility, women's health and care of newborn babies), Weston Park Hospital (a specialist cancer hospital) and the Charles Clifford Dental Hospital, all located between Broomhill and Broomhall in the West End. Areas of speciality covered include infectious diseases and tropical medicine, neurology, neurosurgery, urology and haematology.
2) the Northern General Hospital, located in the northern suburbs around Longley, Firth Park, Grimesthorpe and Shiregreen. Areas of speciality covered include plastic surgery, respiratory medicine, cardiology.
Sheffield Children's Hospital is a separate trust.
Besides being a major healthcare services provider, providing over 900,000 appointments and operations each year,[1] the Foundation Trust also provides clinical education for medical students from the University of Sheffield. The Trust uses the Single Transferable Vote voting system to elect its Members' Council.[2]
The Trust and its hospitals have close links with the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University.