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Ài`>i World Class Local Care Annual Report and Accounts 2005-6 Contents Chief Executive’s and Chairman’s Overview ..........................3 Our Trust ........................................................................................5 Our Achievements ........................................................................7 Our Services ................................................................................11 Our Patients and the Public .....................................................17 Our Staff .......................................................................................21 Our Partners ................................................................................23 Being Safe ......................................................................................25 Our Board ....................................................................................26 Our Finances ................................................................................27 2 Chief Executive’s and Chairman’s Overview Hard Work Achieves Results 2005-06 was a year of hard work throughout the Trust. A great deal was accomplished. Some outstanding results were achieved. And firm foundations were laid for Airedale’s future. The hospital delivered over 200,000 episodes of care. A very high standard of care was maintained. By the end of the year every one of the Government’s access targets had been achieved. Adam Cairns Colin Millar Chief Executive Chairman Airedale was declared ‘Small Hospital of they take our thanks and good wishes with Colin Millar was appointed Chairman in the Year’ in the Dr. Foster Good Hospital them. 2005 and took up his appointment on 1st Guide. It was a year in which the hospital December. He is director of a marketing However, if hard work has produced performed very well. information company and holds a small excellent results, it is the people in the Trust number of other directorships. His career It was also a year in which we achieved who deliver the healthcare and those who was initially in marketing with a leading in-year financial balance after three years support them who deserve credit for what international consumer products company of deficit. This required a huge effort by has been achieved. Our thanks are due to and subsequently in financial services. He everyone in the Trust. Airedale NHS Trust every member of staff for the contribution lives in Addingham, near Ilkley. finished with a reported surplus although they made in a challenging year. Adam Cairns formerly Director of this included non-repayable financial support We believe Airedale can look forward with Communications and Corporate Affairs at from the West Yorkshire Strategic Health real optimism. We have a clear sense of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Authority. More work is required to ensure direction, our finances are sound, we have was appointed as chief executive of Airedale continuing financial strength but ending the an outstanding team, we have a hospital NHS Trust and took up the post in August in-year deficit was a major step forward. of which we are proud, and we feel the 2005. We have been able to enter 2006/07 community genuinely supports us. There is substantially free of debt. The Finance His NHS career began in 1983 as a National much to do of course - but when was that Director’s Statement on page 27 provides Management Trainee at the Yorkshire not the case? further details of our finances. Regional Health Authority, followed by time at Calderdale Health Authority (1985-91). Adam Cairns Colin Millar In the past year we also prepared for the He spent time working in the North West Chief Executive Chairman future. We adopted ‘The Way Ahead’, a implementing clinical directorates at Hope strategy for greater clinical engagement in Hospital, Salford. He running the Trust, greater Trust involvement then moved to Leeds, with its local partners, and a more where he held the businesslike approach to running our affairs. posts of Director of We also took steps to re-activate our Contracting, Director application for Foundation Trust status with of the Yorkshire the aim of becoming a Foundation Trust in Heart Centre, and 2007/08. then Director of Acute Medicine and Professor Brian Jewell retired as Chairman Cardiovascular Services, during the year and Bob Allen retired as before taking up his Chief Executive. Some other directors previous post in 2002. retired or took opportunities outside the Trust. Much of what is good about Airedale today is attributable to their leadership and 3 Chief Executive’s and Chairman’s Overview Small Hospital of the Year In December 2005 Airedale Hospital Our most important asset is our people. We’ve also spent time talking to our was commended as Small Hospital of Many have been here for years and our patients and GP’s and our now looking at staff turnover is very low. What makes the the Year in the prestigious Dr Foster changes to procedures for outpatients and Good Hospital Guide 2005. difference is their commitment - they’re elective surgery to make the service more always looking to see what they can do to The Good Hospital Guide, published in make it better. This recognition is a tribute responsive to their needs.” the Times, put Airedale on the shortlist that all our staff should feel proud of and for Hospital of the Year because of its high I would like to thank them for their hard standards of patient care. Airedale was work and dedication. The report also: named as having the lowest death rates of any hospital in the region. This is the second We realise there is more for us to do and • Rates Airedale Hospital for performance time in three years that Airedale has been we will use this as an important platform in emergency care and hip services. shortlisted for the top position and this to keep on improving. We have already year because of its performance taking into identified areas in which we can improve • Names Airedale as the top hospital in account its size it has been commended as our efficiency and provide a better service the region for patient satisfaction (87%) Small Hospital of the Year. for patients. It is vital to involve staff and patients in identifying areas for change. • Praises Airedale for getting its patients Adam Cairns Chief Executive: We’ve asked the staff about how we could do things differently, which gives them a seen and treated quickly for their out “We were absolutely delighted at this news. real sense of ownership in the change. patient appointment Opening Our Doors In September 2005 Airedale NHS and instead have an Trust opened its doors to over 300 open evening to give the local people, patients and partners. public the opportunity The open evening event also marked to come into the 35 years since the hospital was hospital, find out what opened in 1970 by Prince Charles. goes on behind the scenes and to meet the Attractions at the event included the staff. opportunity to: This years event will be • have a go at surgery with real held in the restaurant instruments at Airedale General • try out an ultrasound scan Hospital from 4pm to th • take the ‘clean your hands’ challenge 6.30pm on Tuesday 12 September. • take a tour of the Labour Suite, X-ray department or laundry There were demonstrations on child resuscitation, health checks and advice on careers in the NHS. The Yorkshire Air Ambulance took part with a landing on the helipad, to give people a chance to see the emergency services in action. The Trust decided to do away with the formal style of its annual general meeting 4 Our Trust Airedale Hospital was opened in 1970 and is an award winning district general hospital that provides acute and specialist care. The Trust headquarters are at: Airedale NHS Trust, Airedale General Hospital, Skipton Road, Steeton, Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD20 6TD Some facts and figures: The Trust also provides services at • We employ 2500 staff these sites: Bingley Hospital, Castleberg Hospital, Giggleswick, • This year we cared for 24,700 people as inpatients, 21,800 patients Coronation Hospital, Ilkley, Skipton Hospital as day cases and 103,500 as out patient appointments • Our Accident and Emergency Department sees and treats over 47,000 patients every year Our Visions and Values • Around 2300 babies are born each year at the hospital Vision Mission What is our aspiration for the future? What is our role? To be a truly world class, local health care provider, recognised by To operate as a transparent and effective organisation that everyone as being a superb organisation to belong to, one that works provides safe, high quality and affordable healthcare services for the flexibly and in partnership to ensure the best deal for patients, leading population of Airedale, Craven, Wharfedale, North Bradford and East and innovating on new ways of delivery, confident about its role and in Lancashire. command of its future. Getting there by Quality and assurance Patient and public engagement Long term aim: World class clinical outcomes; no unnecessary harm Long term aim: Local healthcare provider of choice; no unnecessary complaints Priorities for 06/07 Priorities for 06/07 • Develop and embed processes to assure clinical quality • Understand and plan for patient and GP expectations • Improve cleanliness standards; further reduce hospital acquired • Develop a NHS Foundation Trust membership community infection • Further strengthen local relationships • Continue to provide good clinical outcomes and low mortality rates Resources & processes Staff and service