Annual Report and Accounts for the Year Ended 31 March 2015
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Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2015 Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity. The working name for the charities registered in England & Wales as University Hospital Birmingham Charities, registered charity number 1093989. Senior Nurse Liz Shale and Sister Chris Carey with veteran fundraiser Karl Hinett outside the QEHB Contents Executive summary 5 Chairman’s statement 6 An overview 8 Charitable purpose and public benefit 8 Information about University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust 9 Our key performance indicators 10 Plans for the future 11 We need your support 12 What we fund 13 Equipment 13 Research 16 Facilities 16 Training, education and patient support 20 How we are funded 22 Fundraising 25 Legacies 27 Governance 28 More about who we are and how we work 28 Our history 29 How do we do things? 29 Details of Trustees 30 Trustee recruitment, appointment and induction 30 Future trusteen recruitment and appointments 31 Charity Sub-Committees 31 Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity’s Staff 31 Volunteers 31 Grant making struture and policy 32 Charitable expenditure 32 Charity’s advisors and agents 33 Other advisors 33 Wider networks and related parties 34 Administrative structure as at 31 March 2015 34 External support structure as at 31 March 2015 34 Risk policy 35 Investment policy 35 Reserves policy 34 Financial review 38 Statement Of Trustees’ responsibilities 39 Independent Auditors’ report to the Trustees 40 Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 March 2015 41 Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2015 42 Notes to the financial statements 43 Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity | Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2015 3 Ex-soldier and longtime QEHB Charity supporter Karl Hinett with wife Beth at the Bupa Great Birmingham Run. Vinnay Patel, who raised over £300 for the QE Cancer Appeal Jo from local charity Knitted Knockers, to which QEHB Charity with his sponsored swim. awarded a grant through the Sprinkle Some Magic scheme. Yvonne Jones, Security Officer Tom Meade, Damian Chana, Kionne Potter and ex-patient Dan Timmins, all of whom cycled at the hospital, following her 300 miles to fundraise for the QE. charity skydive. 4 Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity | Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2015 Executive summary It has been five years since the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham opened its doors in June 2010, the first new acute hospital built in Birmingham for over 70 years. The hospital is now seeing nearly one million patients a year, with patients being referred to the hospital’s many centres of excellence from across the UK. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity continues to support the hospital by raising funds to purchase equipment and facilities not normally seen Lisa Conley, specialist teacher for the Young Persons Unit, in NHS hospitals, funding research at the University funded by QEHB Charity of Birmingham, and providing those little extras that make a stay in hospital just that little bit easier – from a None of this would be possible without the generous teacher to enable patients on the Teenage Cancer Trust’s support of our fundraisers and donors, and we thank Young Persons Unit to study for GCSEs and A-levels to each and every one of them. memory lane cafes for our elderly patients. We are especially grateful to US charity Fisher House For the fourth year in a row, fundraising income has Foundation and UK charity Help for Heroes for their exceeded £3 million, enabling the charity to continue support. Without their contributions, Fisher House could to run existing activities as well as take on new and never have been built, and we are very grateful to Help exciting projects. for Heroes for their ongoing support of £50,000 per year towards Fisher House’s running costs. Fisher House, the “home away from home” for military patients and their families, has now been a safe haven We are very pleased to have partnered with the for over 1,300 patients and family members in the two leukaemia charity, The Karen Morris Memorial Trust, to years since it opened in June 2013 and has provided launch Karen’s Home from Home in Birmingham, which over 7,500 nights’ accommodation. is now the fourth city in the UK to have such a facility. You can read more about this exciting new project later Encouraged by the success of Fisher House, the charity in the report. opened another facility for patients and families in December 2014, when Karen’s Home from Home was This is just a snapshot of the progress the Queen launched, providing accommodation for the families of Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity has made bone marrow transplant patients who are having their during the last year, becoming a major provider of transplant at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham research grants in the region, and funding services and – Europe’s largest organ transplant centre. equipment that are over and above that which the NHS provides. During the year, the charity raised the money to create a Centre for Rare Diseases at the hospital, which will bring The report that follows provides full information on together patients, clinicians and researchers in one place the charity’s history and background, its structure and to treat and help find cures for many life limiting genetic governance, its plans for the future, and detailed reports illnesses and diseases. on its revenues and expenditure. Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity | Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2015 5 Chairman’s statement As we celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Just five years ago, the hospital treated 600,000 patients opening of the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital per year. This year, that number will rise to 1,000,000 Birmingham, I can’t quite believe that this year patients for the first time. also marks ten years since I was privileged enough to become a Trustee of Queen Elizabeth Hospital It is simply not possible for the hospital to care for and treat Birmingham Charity. so many extra patients without the extra resources that the hospital charity provides. I am often asked why people In that time I have seen many changes, but the one constant should donate to a hospital charity, when surely the hospital has been the wonderful care, treatment and kindness is paid for through taxes? provided to the patients treated by University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHBFT) across the It is a valid question; and, quite rightly, the costs of your original Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Selly Oak Hospital medical treatment and of providing the doctors and nurses and now the magnificent new Queen Elizabeth Hospital at our hospital are all met through general taxation, but I Birmingham. want to share some examples of how your donations are helping our medical staff provide world class care that is I am proud to tell people that I am the Chair of Trustees over and above what could normally be provided by the of the charity supporting the Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS. Birmingham, and so many have been touched in some way by the care provided at UHB, whether as a patient Before the hospital charity purchased the CyberKnife or through a friend or family member who has received radiotherapy treatment machine, the NHS treatment for treatment here. people with brain tumours meant patients had to keep completely still during the course of radiotherapy. Just a Now the hospital is receiving even more patients from millimetre’s movement could damage healthy brain tissue. To outside the West Midlands, as it becomes known as a ensure the patient didn’t move, clinicians had to bolt a head national and international centre of excellence. The high- clamp onto the patient to restrain them. Patients would have profile cases of Malala Yousafzai, the teenage girl shot in the clamp on for up to ten hours at a time. Pakistan by the Taliban, and Stephen Sutton, who was treated and sadly passed away on the Teenage Cancer Trust I met one patient who had received treatment for a brain Young Persons Unit, have brought the work of the hospital tumour and had to have the head clamp. Three years later, a to many people’s attention. new brain tumour was detected, and his consultant told him he would need radiotherapy again. He told me that he broke In the past twelve months, Ahmed Nawaz, the survivor of down in tears and told his consultant that he couldn’t face the Pakistani Army School attack, and Allison Heathcote, the head clamp treatment again. When he was told that he who received multiple gunshot injuries and tragically would be having treatment on CyberKnife, and would not lost her husband in the Tunisia terrorist attack, have also need any restraints, he wept again, but this time with relief. been treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham because of the world-leading reputation of the trauma The hospital’s Outpatients Department is very busy, with teams here, developed through the treatment of the UK’s thousands of patients a year going through the waiting military patients at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine. areas. Whilst the waiting areas are perfectly pleasant and functional, they don’t offer much, if anything, in the way of But it is because the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham stimulation for patients who have learning disabilities. is so successful and well-respected that the work of the An Epilepsy Specialist Nurse told us about one of her hospital charity is more vital than ever. patients who regularly became distressed whilst waiting for 6 Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity | Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2015 his appointment, and his mum who knew the importance wonderful support we get from local, regional and national of her son receiving treatment, but struggled to bring him to media outlets.