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Quality of Life - Healthcare
Developing a 21st century hospital
The exciting development of a new hospital, now under way for the city, will offer 1,159 acute beds and 35 operating theatres, and 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 addition of a new medical school, to be 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.
Current Position – Primary Care Trust
The two Derby City Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) work collaboratively with a wide range of local stakeholders (Derby City Council and other partners in the statutory, independent and voluntary sectors) in order to address both national and local priorities for health improvement. As well as providing services for its own population, they also commission some services on behalf of the whole of Southern Derbyshire.
The Secondary Care 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 3 years ago.
The rating system looks closely at issues such as:
- 4 hour A&E wait
- '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.
The achievement of 3 stars enables Trusts to have increased autonomy and last year, each 3 star Trust in the UK was awarded £1million 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.
The role of the Primary Care Trust (PCT):-
- Improve the health of the local population, based on national and local needs assessment
- Work to ensure that appropriate secondary care (hospital care) is available for those people registered with their General Practices
- Develop those services provided by GPs and other primary care staff
- Provide community health services, such as health visiting and school nursing, for their population
PCT Services
The PCTs employ 931 people providing the following services:
District Nurses- Health Visitors
- School Nursing
- Allied Health Professionals
- Community Nutrition and Dietetics Services
- Liaison Service
- Evening and Night Service
- Hospital at Home
- Intensive Home Support
- Immediate Response Team
- Specialist Community Adult Continence Nursing Service
- Specialist nursing staff, family planning, diabetes, occupational therapists etc
- Physiotherapists
- Community Pharmacists
- Counsellors
Population Profile
The population of Derby City PCTs consists of 277,370 people who are registered with 38 practices within the PCTs.
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