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Quality of Life - Health
Quality health care - the NHS in Derby
The quality of both primary and secondary health care in the NHS in Derby ranks amongst the highest in the UK with even further developments to build upon this excellent service provision including a new state of the art, £333 million hospital for the city.
Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) carry out the role previously carried out by Health Authorities and have the funding to plan and commission health services for the Derby communities so that decisions about local services are made at a local level.
Doctor or nurse within 24 hours
Family doctors, dentists, pharmacists and opticians in Derby all come under the responsibility of the Greater and Central Derby Primary Care Trusts.
All family doctors’ practices in Derby meet the government’s access targets which means you can see a primary care professional (e.g. a nurse) within 24 hours and a GP within 48 hours.
Both Primary Care Trusts provide services of the highest quality, with the Greater Derby Trust, which covers the majority of the city’s population, holding the highest achievable status of three stars.
Derby leads the way nationally in the use of partnership working with the private sector, which is enabling an extensive programme of new surgeries and health centres to be developed over the next few years with six new primary care centres planned by 2010.
Derby’s hospital care among the best in the UK
The Acute Trust, which operates the hospitals in Derby is, and continues to be, one of the best performing Trusts in the country. It carries a 3 star Department of Health performance rating which is the highest award possible. The Trust is also one of only a few in the UK to have achieved this level of performance every year since the ratings system was introduced.
The rating system looks closely at issues such as:
- waiting times for inpatients and outpatients
- 'clinical focus' areas such as infection control
- clinical negligence procedures
- 'patient focus' areas including hospital food, and privacy and dignity arrangements
- 'capacity and capability' which relates to other performance areas such as sickness absence rates and the management of information.
In the latest assessment all key targets were met in full and Derby scored the highest points possible in:
- Better hospital food
- Privacy and dignity
- Breast cancer treatment
- Clinical negligence arrangements
- Emergency Readmission to hospital following discharge for children
- Outpatient A&E survey - safe, high quality, co-ordinated care
- Paediatric outpatient ‘did not attend’ rates
The achievement of three stars enables trusts to have increased autonomy. Three star trusts are awarded additional funding to spend directly on improving services for patients.
Derby not only continues to deliver these high quality services but is also addressing areas identified as needing improvement as part of its ongoing modernisation and service improvement programmes and continues to be amongst those to lead key developments within the NHS.
One of UK’s first NHS Foundation Trusts
As one of the highest performing Trusts in the country, Derby Hospitals have now achieved NHS Foundation Trust status.
A 21st century hospital - by 2008
The exciting development of a new hospital, now under way for the city, will offer 1,159 acute beds and 35 operating theatres, it will have more theatres on a single acute site than any other PFI hospital in the country.
The additional facilities will contribute enormously towards increasing capacity and reducing waiting times for operations and other procedures and will be capable of providing the right services to the right people in the right environment and to the highest standard.
With the recent addition of a new medical school, run in partnership with the University of Nottingham, the new hospital will be comparable to the large teaching centres such as Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham; Sheffield Teaching Hospitals; and University Hospitals of Leicester.
The development will bring extensive benefits to the population of Derby and Southern Derbyshire, not only from a patient perspective, but also in terms of increasing the number of jobs locally and contributing positively towards the local economy.
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