Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS Foundation Trust based in West and North Yorkshire, England; it also serves part of East Lancashire.[1]

About

The Trust employs 2,900 people and has 400 volunteers. Each year the Trust treats 25,000 inpatients, 26,000 non-elective patients and 150,000 outpatients. The Emergency Department treats over 51,000 each year. An average 2,600 babies are born each year at the Foundation Trust.[1] The Trust achieved Foundation Trust status on 1 June 2010.[2] It was formerly known as Airedale NHS Trust.

The trust broke from the national pay agreement in August 2015 by giving a 1% pay rise to its senior non-clinical staff - those earning above £57,069 - in line with the award for the rest of the staff. [3]

Hospitals

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust currently Operates the following Hospitals:

Additionally the trust provides some services at Coronation Hospital in Ilkley in Wharfedale.[4][5] The Trust used to formerly own Coronation Hospital; recent talks have led to the possibility to Coronation Hospital returning to Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, however there have also been talks for Airedale NHS Foundation Trust to build a new £3.3 Million Community Hospital to serve the Ilkley area.[6][7]

The Trust is viewed as a pioneer in telemedicine in the UK and has used the technology to support very vulnerable patients, particularly those with dementia and in nursing homes. Technical expertise is provided by Involve-Visual and Red Embedded. Plans were announced in November 2013 to roll the service out to 50 more nursing and residential homes working with Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.[8]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "About us". airedale-trust.nhs.uk. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
  2. ↑ "Quality Account, Page 3" (PDF). airedale-trust.nhs.uk. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
  3. ↑ "Three more trusts snub national pay agreement". Health Service Journal. 3 September 2015. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "Urology". airedale-trust.nhs.uk. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
  5. ↑ "Occupational therapy". airedale-trust.nhs.uk. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
  6. ↑ "Health chiefs in talks over future of Ilkley's Coronation hospital". Ilkley Gazette. 5 January 2012. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
  7. ↑ "Debate over future of Coronation Hospital". Telegraph & Argus. 5 January 2012. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
  8. ↑ "Support growing for a Telemedicine revolution in home care". homecare.co.uk. Retrieved 8 December 2013.

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