Introduction
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Introduction
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About the Trust ...
Consisting of four sites, the Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust provides
1,419 beds, has an average annual expenditure of £213 million and employs over
6,433 staff. Although primarily serving the population of Humberside, The Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust can stretch
further afield to areas of Lincolnshire, Yorkshire or abroad.
The Trust's aim is to provide an efficient service of the highest standard for all patients, which respects them as individuals and treats them with dignity. Modernisation and improvements are constantly being made, the Trust has begun the development of a Postgraduate School of Medicine and a number of professorial appointments have already been made in conjunction with the University of Hull. It also has strong links with the Humberside College of Health and the University of Humberside.
The Hull & York Medical School (HYMS)
Much work is going on to have the medical school up and running in 2003. This joint venture between Hull and York will put local medical teaching very much more on the map.
The hospitals which comprise the Trust are:-
· Hull Royal Infirmary
· Hull Maternity Hospital
· The Princess Royal Hospital
· Castle Hill Hospital
The Organisational Structure
The District consists of two NHS trusts, a Strategic Health Authority and four
Primary Care Trusts. These are; Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Trust, Hull and East Riding Community Trust,
North & East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire Health Authority-Designates
and the four Primary Care Trusts (listed below). In addition, the Health Authority manages the
Tees East & North Yorkshire Ambulance Service (TENYA), the Hull and East Yorkshire DHA's Supplies Service
which includes services for East Yorkshire and Scunthorpe Health Authorities and informal links with Grimsby Health
Authority. It has a School of Diagnostic Radiography and a School of Nursing.
1 Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
The Hull and East Yorkshire Hospital NHS Trust serves a population of 1.2
million, with an annual budget of £213 million and employing approximately
6,433 staff. The city of Hull is the largest City in East Yorkshire and is an industrial town and established port with a large variety of associated industries.
2 Hull & East Riding Community NHS Trust
The Hull & East Riding Community Health NHS Trust provides the local community health care needs of East Yorkshire e.g. community paediatrics, palliative care and psychiatry all of which the vocational training scheme has posts for. Mental health care is based in smaller specialised units in the community. In addition, there are smaller local hospitals providing isolated areas with general health facilities and small injury units.
3 The North & East Yorkshire and North
Lincolnshire Health Authority - Designates
The previous 3 Health Authorities have merged to the one named above and there
are now only 28 nationally. The Health Authority is based in York and covers an area of
4,600 square miles, serving a resident population of 1.6 billion. The 4 Primary
Care Trusts and there bodies will take over much of the administration of
General Practice from what was the East Riding Health Authority. The four
Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in Yorkshire are; The East Yorkshire PCT, The
Yorkshire Wolds & Coast PCT, The Eastern Hull PCT and The West Hull PCT.
1 Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
1.1 Hull Royal Infirmary - 722 beds
This is the main hospital in East Yorkshire, opened in 1967, and about
half a mile from Hull City Centre. Its specialities include general medicine and surgery, dermatology, gastro-enterology, neurology and neurosurgery, paediatric medicine and surgery, dentistry and orthodontics, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, E.N.T., vascular surgery and geriatrics. There are modern intensive care and coronary care units and the hospital has a major accident and emergency
department and paediatric A & E department along with an acute assessment
unit . The hospital has a variety of sophisticated clinical support departments, including a Medical Illustration Department.
1.2 Castle Hill Hospital, Cottingham
- 523 beds.
Castle Hill Hospital is designated as one of two major acute hospitals providing services to the residents of North Humberside and further afield. The
developed into a comprehensive general hospital in the year 2000. The Maternity and Gynaecology
Unit was completed in early 1997. Set in attractively landscaped grounds, Castle Hill has
developed as an important Cancer Centre, Breast Clinic, Chest
Medicine and Cardio-thoracic Surgical Centre. It has over 500 beds and 1600 staff. New residences and an Education Centre (now the department of Academic Surgery) were also opened in 1990. In 1991 a 10 bed Intensive Care Unit and associated laboratory was opened giving Castle Hill Hospital one of the most modern intensive care facilities in the country.
1.3 The Princess Royal Hospital - 50 beds
This specialist acute hospital is situated some four and a half miles north-east of Hull and has sub-regional units for radiotherapy, renal dialysis and medical physics.
1.4 Hull Maternity Hospital - 145 beds (including cots)
Sited three miles east of the City Centre, the hospital includes a Special Care Baby Unit with intensive care facilities for the new-born.
This hospital will transfer to a new building at the HRI site and opening 2002.