Trust lays out big vision for future
9:08pm Wednesday 16th July 2008
An ambitious vision for the future has been laid out by hospital bosses in Bradford.
The strategy – Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 2015 – aims to build on the success of recent years which has seen an impressive range of developments in the city’s hospitals, in areas such as cancer care, research and teaching facilities and the range of surgery provided.
Miles Scott, chief executive of the trust, presented an outline of the new corporate strategy to a meeting of the trust’s board of governors at Bradford Royal Infirmary today.
He said: “The principal reason we are looking at this now and making big, new commitments is because of the success we have had against the corporate strategy set out a few years ago.
“We have gone so far beyond what we thought we would achieve by 2010 we need to set out for patients and the public what we have planned now.”
Mr Scott said the plan was based about five key areas on which the trust wanted to make big progress. These are:
to achieve top ratings in patient satisfaction – to be in the top 20 per cent in the country by 2015 and the hospital of choice for patients
to spend £100 million, in addition to routine expenditure on equipment and maintenance, between now and 2015 transforming hospital facilities to make sure they are fit for purpose for 21st century healthcare
to make the trust the specialist centre for healthcare in the western area of West Yorkshire by developing services such as child and maternity services, head and neck, abdominal and pelvic surgery and imaging. A key ambition in this area is bringing radiotherapy to Bradford, currently provided at the new oncology centre at St James’s Hospital in Leeds
to bring healthcare closer to people’s homes, working with GPs and commissioners to deliver up to half of outpatient care away from the two main hospital sites by 2015 and ensure that specialist services currently delivered from places such as Manchester and Leeds are provided locally
education and research – to increase work in this area three-fold and become a nationally-recognised centre of excellence for education and applied health research.
“These five key objectives will form the basis of all plans going forward,” said Mr Scott. “These are not just words but a clear commitment.”
Chairman of the board of governors David Richardson said: “It is a very ambitious and aspirational plan and is fantastic news for Bradford.”
The trust is consulting on the corporate strategy and will bring a detailed report before the board at the end of August for approval.