Trust to hold Annual Public Meeting on 6 October

Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Rochdale Infirmary and community services across the borough, is to hold its Annual Public Meeting (APM) on the evening of Thursday 6 October.

The Trust’s APM will be held at The Queen Elizabeth Hall, West St, Oldham, OL1 1QJ, at 6pm and the event is free to attend for the public and Trust members, with no need to book.

The evening will include a presentation from the Trust’s new Chief Executive, Sir David Dalton, and Trust Chairman, Mr Jim Potter, who will review the last 12 months and the plans going forward.

The Trust’s Annual Report and Financial Accounts will be presented for formal adoption, followed by a look at the year ahead and a public question and answer session.

Before the formal APM starts, there will be an exhibition between 5-6pm, where NHS staff, including doctors and nursing staff, will showcase some of the Trust’s services, achievements and key developments in a “Pride in Pennine” local NHS exhibition and information event. 

Members of the public will be able to talk to NHS Trust staff and view a variety of displays and exhibition stands which will showcase a wide range of services and key developments which the Trust has delivered over the last 12 months.

The Trust, one of the largest NHS Trusts in England employing over 9,000 staff, runs North Manchester General Hospital, The Royal Oldham Hospital, Fairfield General Hospital in Bury, Rochdale Infirmary and a range of community healthcare services.

The public meeting is open to the public, patients, the Trust’s 12,500 public members, staff, partner agencies, and local patient and community groups. No booking is required.

The Trust’s Annual Report & Financial Accounts 2015/16 will be made available after the meeting on the Trust website at www.pat.nhs.uk.

Last year the Trust:

1. Spent over £600 million (about £1.6 million a day) on providing health care services for local people
2. Invested £6.4 million on capital programme and in maintain and improving the physical estate of our hospitals to develop frontline clinical services
3. Spent £5.3 million on medical and scientific equipment and £4.3 million on information technology to support frontline clinical services
4. Issued 1,029,500 items from pharmacy to inpatients, outpatients, patient discharges and ward stocks
5. Achieved 97% in patient catering satisfaction survey
6. Saw 320,533 A&E urgent cases, 669,822 outpatients,106,000 in patients, 73,259 day cases
7. Helped women deliver 9,711 babies
8. Made 146,729 visits to patients in their own homes to provide treatment and care
9. Hospital Mortality Ratio – remains below 100 and is the fifth lowest in the North West of England
10. Achieved 94% compliance in cleanliness in all clinical areas.