Trust Profile
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust became an integrated care organisation on 1st July 2011. We provide patient care in the community at health centres and clinics as well as services such as district and school nursing. We also provide services at the Royal Bolton Hospital.
Our vision is to develop the organisation and aim to match the best integrated care organisations internationally for the quality and efficiency of our services by 2016.
Our renewed focus will give us three fundamental aims:-
- Best care for better health (for our patients and our community)
- Responsible use of resources (for the taxpayer)
- Valued, respected and proud (by our staff, patients and public)
Our strategic direction will be to address and design:-
- Meeting the health needs of our population
- Improving the safety and quality of care
- Improving the patients experience
- Making our services more efficient
- Our Trust serves the population of Bolton (around 263,000) and many patients choose to come here from other locations
- RBH is one of the busiest hospitals in the North-west for emergency admissions
- We delivered 4,700 babies at Princess Anne Maternity Unit during 2010/11
- RBH has 622 inpatient beds, 36 day case beds and 15 endoscopy (gastrointestinal exploration) beds
- We anticipate a turnover of approximately £265 million for 2011/12
- We employ around 5,300 staff - we expect this to rise to around 5,700 when the Making It Better project is complete
Mental health services are provided at the Royal Bolton Hospital but are managed by Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Renal Dialysis is provided and managed by Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust at a dedicated unit at Royal Bolton Hospital.
Making it Better
In 2011, The Royal Bolton Hospital is becoming a regional 'supercentre' for the care of women, children and babies with a £20 million investment in services. We are expanding and improving our facilities to create a centre of excellence in maternity, paediatric and neonatal care. Work includes an improved maternity unit, a new children's ward and a new neonatal critical care unit. We are also investing in around 400 extra members of staff to provide the very best care for our patients.
Bolton Improving Care System
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is a leader in the application of lean principles in health care, through the development of our own Bolton Improving Care System (BICS). This is a way of reducing wasteful processes in the system (e.g. duplication, errors and work-round solutions) to ensure we provide safe and high quality services that our patients value, whilst reducing frustrations and enhancing job satisfaction for our staff. We have achieved some spectacular improvements for patients and staff
Achievements
Our departments and staff hold a wide range of awards and achievements. These include:
- Excellence in HRM Award 2011 - Healthcare People Management Association
- Clinical Leader of the Year 2011 - British Medical Journal Group Awards
- Nurse of the Year 2011 - Nursing Standards Awards
- North West Clinical Leader of the Year - NHS North West Awards
- Best Process Improvement Project in Service & Transaction 2011 - National Process Excellence Awards
- Hospital Catering Award 2010 - Health Business Awards
- Diamond Care Award for Best Care - NHS Bolton
- Patient Safety in Surgery - National Patient Safety Awards 2011
- Apprentice of the Year 2011- NHS North West
- Working in Partnership to Narrow the Gap in Health Inequalities - Community Empowerment Awards 2011
Location
Bolton has the advantage of having every facility itself - for sports, leisure, shopping, education and business - yet being within easy reach of Manchester and Liverpool city centres and the beautiful Lake District, Peak District, West Pennines and Fylde coast.