Annual Report and Accounts 2011 - 2012
This has been a year of real progress for the Trust with a return to meeting key access targets and a significant shift in our priorities towards delivering sustainable high quality care for all our patients.
Having started the year with many patients having to wait an unacceptable length of time for treatment as a result of the gateway introduced by our commissioners at the end of 2010, we managed to complete almost 2,000 extra operations in the course of the year to ensure that waiting times returned to normal.
We have strengthened our approach to quality with the emphasis being placed on the Trust's Quality and Patient Safety Committee and additional resource being given to the oversight and delivery of patient care. This remains an area which still requires further improvement if we are to reach the standards we have set ourselves and there can be no let-up in our efforts.
We have also refreshed our Board with the recruitment of four new Non-Executive Directors and I would like to welcome them to the Trust and wish them well. Alan Whittle, our Chief Executive will be stepping down from the Trust later this year and I would like to thank him for his tireless efforts over many years.
We have now appointed Clare Panniker, currently the chief executive of North Middlesex University Hospital, as his successor and she will take up her post on 1st October. I shall also be stepping down shortly and handing over to Ian Luder and would like to say how much I have enjoyed working with everyone at the Trust to help move it forward. I am grateful for all the support I have received from so many people and wish you all every success in your endeavours. |
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Quality Account 2011/12 |
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For the Board of Governors of Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
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Annual Report and Accounts 2010 - 2011
I am delighted to have been appointed by the governing body as chairman while we work through the final stages of the journey which the Trust embarked on when the problems of 2009 emerged. There is no doubt that considerable progress has been made and that the targets set by the board last year have been achieved but we remain in breach of our obligations to Monitor, the regulator for foundation trusts, and will remain so until we can demonstrate clearly that we have firmly embedded a sustainable culture of high performance and risk management. Hospitals are hugely complex organisations and constant vigilance is the only way that they succeed.
There is always the danger of "hitting the target and missing the point" and we all have to remember that the focus of all that we do is the patient. Safe, effective care, delivered with dignity and compassion is the touchstone against which everything has to be measured.
In the short time I have been here I have been impressed by the staff I have met and the many excellent services that we provide.
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Quality Account 2010/11
All NHS trusts are required to produce an annual Quality Report. This is a good opportunity for us to show the people who use our services how well we have performed and the areas where we feel we could make improvements. We support transparency and openness and encourage you to assess our performance and our ambitions. Sustaining the improvements we have made in the quality of our services is also extremely important. The Quality Report shows what data the Trust uses to monitor areas of improvement for patient safety, clinical effectiveness and patient experience.
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Annual Report and Accounts 2009/2010
First of all, I would like to pay tribute to the Executive Team and all the staff who have performed their duties with such enthusiasm and professionalism. This has been against a background of Regulatory concern from the newly formed Care Quality Commission and, through them, from Monitor. We have worked closely with both parties to address their regulatory concerns and used the opportunity to ensure our Governance meets the highest standards. This has involved planning to strengthen our Clinical leadership across the Trust and implementing detailed Action Plans to address detailed operational and governance issues. |
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Quality Account 2009/2010 |
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Annual Report and Accounts 2008/2009
Once again, I am pleased to be able to report on the good progress our Trust has made over the last year. Much has been achieved during the year with one of the high spots being the double Excellent rating awarded by the Health Care Commission, the highest possible level of achievement. The credit for this has to go to the Executive Team and all the staff who have performed their duties with such enthusiasm, dedication and professionalism. Record attendances and the lowest ever waiting times have been achieved due to their collective effort. The National targets for A&E treatment time were not only met but exceeded with over 98% of patients being treated and discharged or admitted to a ward within four hours of arriving at the hospital. |
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Annual Report and Accounts 2007/2008
At the conclusion of my first full year in office, I am pleased to be able to report on the good progress our Trust has made. Firstly, I would like to pay tribute to the Executive Team and all the staff who have performed their duties with such enthusiasm and professionalism. This has been against a background of increased pressure on A&E and the need to reduce waiting times in line with national targets.
The Essex Cardiothoracic Centre opened its doors to patients on time and on budget in July 2007, and the new multi-storey car park is now fully functional, to the benefit of patients, staff and visitors. An ambitious estates programme will see a major transformation of many of the Trust's facilities in the years to come.
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Annual Report and Accounts 2006/2007
I am pleased to report that, for yet another year, the Trust has continued to perform well for the constituents it serves. We are about to open a new state-of-the-art Cardiothoracic Centre to serve the population of Essex and work has started on a new multi-storey car park for patients, staff and visitors. The new Cardiothoracic Centre will require a considerable number of extra staff and work to recruit senior postholders and the 500 additional staff we need to care for patients in the new Centre is well under way. |
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Annual Report and Accounts 2005/2006
This has been another very successful year for Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. At a time when we are reading gloomy and pessimistic news about the NHS, and many organisations are facing year end deficits that might appear to be of unmanageable proportions, we have consolidated our position as one of the leading Foundation Trusts in the country.
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Annual Report and Accounts 2004/2005
It has been a momentous year in the history of Basildon and Thurrock Hospitals as we celebrate our first anniversary as a Foundation Trust. We were full of expectations on 1 April 2004, the date we were granted Foundation Trust status. But none of us could have been fully prepared for the significance that such change would make. We are one of the few Trusts that have always and consistently achieved financial balance, and have been a three-star trust since the star rating system was introduced. It was this success that allowed us to apply for, and achieve, foundation status.
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Annual Report 2003/2004
At the very heart of NHS Foundation Trusts is the ability for local people and staff to influence decisions about local healthcare. NHS Foundation Trusts are membership organisations and local people have the opportunity to turn the very real affinity they feel for Basildon and Orsett Hospitals into tangible involvement – and the chance to help make a difference - by becoming members. Members elect representatives, known as governors, to sit on the Members’ Council, which works with the Board of Directors to agree the vision and values of the NHS Foundation Trust – ensuring the views of local people are taken into account in everything it does. |
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