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This Has Been a Year of Major Achievements for the Trust in Many Areas. Here Are Some of the Highlights HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR This has been a year of major achievements for the Trust in many areas. Here are some of the highlights: April 2003 October 2003 • 26 ‘modern matrons’ are appointed to lead • The Trust commissions a double-decker bus nursing throughout the Trust and improve advertising NHS careers to tour the county in a patient care. bid to boost staff numbers. • The Trust is awarded ‘top hospital’ status by • The new £8.5m Trauma Centre at the John CHKS, which compares NHS Trusts. The award Radcliffe hospital, which opened in October reflects good performance in a number of areas, 2002, is short-listed for an NHS Building Better including low mortality rates, low readmission Healthcare Award. rates after surgery, and the short length of time people wait for planned surgery. In April 2004, • The Trust launches a campaign to encourage the Trust again achieves ‘top hospital’ status. recycling, aimed at cutting a third of its waste-disposal costs. • A team of surgeons, anaesthetists, nurses and July 2003 managers from the Trust visit three hospitals • The Kadoorie Centre opens. The Centre, which November 2003 February 2004 in Boston, USA, to see what lessons they could provides outstanding new facilities for research • On World Diabetes Day, the Government • The official opening of a new dermatology learn. The team returned with plans for and education in critical care, was funded by announces that the Trust will become one of centre at the Churchill Hospital. This provides revolutionary changes in the way in which the businessman Michael Kadoorie. seven national centres funded to carry out new operating theatres, consulting rooms and Trust organises elective surgery. These plans are pancreatic transplants. much improved patient facilities. currently being implemented across the Trust. • The Trust narrowly misses out on two stars in 2003 the Government’s performance ratings, relating • The Starter Home scheme, offering assistance • The £3.2m Takeda Wing of the Oxford Centre May 2003 to the previous financial year. to staff wishing to buy their own property, is for Diabetes, Endocrinology and • A one-stop skin cancer clinic opens at the extended, so that anyone working for the Trust is Metabolism (OCDEM) opens. The new Wing Churchill Hospital. August 2003 eligible to apply. houses leading edge research teams from Oxford • A pictorial account of the Trust’s four University who are working alongside NHS • Sir William Stubbs, former Chairman of the hospitals, by artist Jane Peart, is unveiled by • A new physiotherapy-led hand clinic starts at colleagues. The Centre now offers a Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, is Chairman Sir William Stubbs. Copies of the the Radcliffe Infirmary, funded through the combination of patient care, education and appointed Chairman. specially commissioned picture, which celebrate Government’s ‘Action on Plastic Surgery’ world class research on diabetes and endocrine people and places across the Trust, hang in programme. and metabolic disorders. • At the Trust’s annual Healthcare Conference, each hospital. awards are made to six staff for significant • A national survey reveals that patients having achievements in their professional areas. September 2003 surgery at the Radcliffe Infirmary for serious nose • Trevor Campbell Davis, formerly Chief and sinus problems have the best outcomes in • The Heart Valve Bank at the John Radcliffe Executive of the Whittington Hospital in England and Wales. becomes one of only three in Britain to gain London, starts as Chief Executive of the Trust. accreditation in a national inspection scheme, • A new sexual health clinic for teenagers, following £150,000 investment by the Trust in • The Secretary of State for Health, Dr John Reid, supported by the Radcliffe Infirmary’s Harrison new laboratory facilities. visits the Radcliffe Infirmary to inaugurate a new Department opens in Didcot. cancer research centre. During his visit, Dr Reid June 2003 announces £3m funding for the first phase of the December 2003 • The Department of Health announces that the Oxford Institute of Cancer Medicine, which will • The Chairman, Sir William Stubbs, announces a Trust is to become a regional centre of excellence be based at the Cancer Centre at the Churchill Strategic Review of the Trust, to be launched in for the treatment of children with cleft lip Hospital. The Institute will provide a home for July 2004. and palates. NTRAC, the National Translational Cancer Research Network, which will speed up patients’ • The Trust signs a £135m deal with The Hospital • New laboratory facilities in the Transplant access to new and experimental treatment. Company for the development of the Oxford Centre are opened to support pioneering Children’s Hospital, and a new wing for the John research into the use of pancreatic islets in the • Oxford University marks the official launch of Radcliffe Hospital. 2004treatment of diabetes. its Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford. • The Surgical Emergency Unit at the John • The Trust’s Emergency and Outpatient The centre combines the results of laboratory Radcliffe celebrates its first anniversary, having Departments are praised in the annual and fieldwork with those of clinical practice to treated 4000 patients in its first year, and won patients’ survey. aid the international effort to reduce the global praise from a patients’ survey. burden of infectious diseases. January 2004 • Science and Innovation Minister Lord Sainsbury announces a £540,000 grant to the NHS South East Innovations Hub, led by the Trust. The Hub encourages innovation in the NHS, and helps inventors to turn their ideas into commercially viable concerns. • The new Emergency Department at the John Radcliffe Hospital opens its doors to patients. March 2004 The official opening of the £10.5m • New cardiac monitoring equipment is donated development is in May 2004, when the Earl and to the Horton Hospital. The donation has been Countess of Wessex visit the Trust. given to the hospital by the family and supporters of a young man who died suddenly as a result of a rare cardiac abnormality. • Joint work with social and healthcare partners to speed up the rate at which patients are discharged from the hospital when they no longer need acute care shows results. The waiting time for patients in the Emergency Departments reduces significantly. In July 2004, the Trust is awarded £100,000 by the Department of Health for its achievements in cutting waiting times. The money is being used to develop a new Medical Assessment Unit at the Horton Hospital. • The Trust scores well in a national staff survey, and finishes the year in financial balance. 90% Stubbs William Sir operations by 40%. by operations Trust has also reduced the number of cancelled cancelled of number the reduced also has Trust ££££££££ so that no one now waits over nine months. The The months. nine over waits now one no that so patients have to wait for a planned operation, operation, planned a for wait to have patients has also greatly reduced the length of time which which time of length the reduced greatly also has distant future.” distant The Trust Trust The operations. planned for times Waiting • gives me confidence that recurring financial stability is achievable in the not too too not the in achievable is stability financial recurring that confidence me gives 17 weeks. weeks. 17 effort which it is investing into finding both immediate and longer term solutions solutions term longer and immediate both finding into investing is it which effort the last financial year, no one waited over over waited one no year, financial last the The rigour with which the Trust has approached its financial problems, and the the and problems, financial its approached has Trust the which with rigour The outpatient appointment, so that by the end of of end the by that so appointment, outpatient which patients have to wait for a first first a for wait to have patients which The Trust has greatly reduced the length of time time of length the reduced greatly has Trust The prepared to pay for. pay to prepared appointments. outpatient for times Waiting • those services which patients want and which our primary care trust purchasers are are purchasers trust care primary our which and want patients which services those longer term, our Strategic Review will make sure that we focus on developing developing on focus we that sure make will Review Strategic our term, longer of patients were seen in four hours or less. or hours four in seen were patients of from the first quarter of this year show that 96% 96% that show year this of quarter first the from are working even harder this year to fit our expenditure to our income. In the the In income. our to expenditure our fit to year this harder even working are worked hard to decrease this time, and figures figures and time, this decrease to hard worked plan in place last year, which contributed greatly to our break-even position. We We position. break-even our to greatly contributed which year, last place in plan and Horton Hospitals last year. The Trust has has Trust The year. last Hospitals Horton and stability, but this cannot be achieved in a single year. We had a stringent recovery recovery stringent a had We year. single a in achieved be cannot this but stability, Emergency Departments at the John Radcliffe Radcliffe John the at Departments Emergency We must ensure that the Trust reaches and maintains permanent financial financial permanent maintains and reaches Trust the that ensure must We of patients waited less than four hours in the the in hours four than less waited patients of 96% 88% hospital. to admitted or discharged treated, wait no longer than four hours to be seen, seen, be to hours four than longer no wait more broke even, although with £25m external support.
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