About the Trust
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) is one of the largest acute teaching trusts in the country. It is made up of Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC), Nottingham City Hospital and Ropewalk House, a facility in Nottingham City Centre where hearing services are based.
The Trust provides acute and specialist services to 2.5 million people within Nottingham and surrounding communities from QMC, City Hospital campuses and Ropewalk House.
NUH has an annual budget of £722million of public sector funding and employs over 13,000 staff, making the Trust one of the city’s biggest employers. In addition, NUH has over 1,500 volunteers who each make a unique contribution to NUH. The Trust currently has 1,700 beds and 100 wards.
The Trust is the principal provider of acute general, specialist and tertiary hospital care to the population of Nottingham, receiving 98 per cent of all elective and urgent referrals from primary care trusts in Nottinghamshire.
Activities provided by the Trust include general hospital services for the local population and a wide range of specialist services, many for patients across the East Midlands and beyond. In 2009/10 the Trust cared for around:
- 806,994 first and follow up outpatients
- 93,546 emergency admissions
- 88,574 daycase and elective inpatient admissions
The Trust’s vision is to be England’s best acute teaching Trust by 2016. We will measure our success by achieving excellence and ensure we are best or among best in class in the following areas: clinical outcomes, patient experience, staff satisfaction, teaching and training, research and providing services which are value for money.
At NUH we are committed to providing the highest quality of care to our patients. Our pledge to each of our patients is ‘we are here for you.’
Our Vision
Our vision is to be the best acute teaching Trust in the country by 2016, which will be within 10 years of the Trust being established. We know our vision is ambitious but believe our patients and the public that we serve deserve no less.
Equality and Diversity
The Trust has a determination to be the best acute teaching trust. We are clear that this can only be achieved through ensuring meaningful access to our services and making the very best use of the diverse talents available to us and our patients.
Equality and human rights for the Trust means therefore that all staff, patients and carers, and stakeholders-:
- Are committed to equality of opportunity, treatment and behaviour
- Have equal access to employment, promotion, and development
- Have equal access to services
- Have their needs considered as we develop services
We are committed to ensuring that we are mainstreaming equality and human rights within the organisation -:
- We will work with staff and patients, and their representatives, to promote equality within Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Equality and human rights will be embedded in the Trust business planning process
- Equality and Human Rights will be fully considered within our Governance structures.
- Staff objectives, job descriptions and use of the Knowledge and Skills Framework will be used to ensure that equality and human rights are part of the personal development of all staff
- We will be proactive in developing new services and ways of working that take into account the needs of all groups who make up the communities we serve
Awards won by teams, departments and individuals at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Team and department awards
- Releasing Time to Care (Productive Ward) won the ‘Learning for Improvement’ Award in the regional Health & Social Care Award 2009
- The City Hospital campus Catering Department was awarded a Bronze Standard Food for Life Catering Mark from the Soil Association in February 2009
- Junior Doctors Mess at the Queen’s Medical Centre campus was voted the ‘greenest doctors’ mess in the country in a competition organised by the Campaign for Greener Healthcare, Doctors.net.uk and BMA News
Estates and Facilities
- ‘Low Carbon’ Award’ in the regional Health & Social Care Awards 2009
- ‘Green Transport’ Award in the Health Business Awards 2008
