Chief Executive’s Report
The past year has been another very successful
one for everyone associated with the Foundation
Trust - patients, staff, visitors and governors.
During 2008 we joined together to celebrate the 60th anniversary
of the NHS and on the true anniversary date, 5 July 2008, we
opened our doors to the public and held a well attended open
day. Also in July our decontamination unit won the national
technology award at the health and social care awards in London.
We started the financial year in a strong position and Many of our
continued our sound financial management producing achievements this year
a surplus of £2.6m. have resulted in improved
The 18 week referral to treatment targets that were
facilities, which I hope will go a long
achieved last year have been maintained despite an
way to improve patient and visitor experience at the
increasing number of referrals to the hospital. This
hospital. In early 2009 we completed car park
target specifies that over 90% of patients should
improvements and in July 2009 the new main
receive treatment within 18 weeks of a GP referring the
entrance and new shops were completed.
patient to the hospital. In all specialties this has meant To improve our information sharing, we launched a
local people had shorter waiting times for our services. new website in January 2009,
For patients admitted as an emergency, the hospital
www.northhampshire.nhs.ukThis provides clear
opened 23 new medical beds and delivered the
information about our services for patients and visitors
emergency department (A&E) 4 hour wait times. In
of the hospital. We hope this will help our patients be
December we opened a new 10 bed isolation ward.
better informed about the hospital and our services.
Hospital acquired infections are taken very seriously
and every effort is put into infection prevention and
Mary Edwards
control to provide a safe environment for all patients.
Chief executive
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