Service development

 

The Trust not only delivers services from its own sites, but also at partner district general hospitals through a system of clinics run by our consultants. This enables patients to benefit from our expertise in their local environment, with inpatient care at our hospitals provided as needed.

NHS activity contracts

The Trust continued to achieve income above target from its contracts with commissioners – by some £12 million in 2008/09.

The contracts – or Service Level Agreements – are the agreements in place between the Trust and its commissioners, principally primary care trusts and the National Specialist Commissioning Group.

Growth continues in areas of complex sub-speciality in both heart and lung disease treatment. The fact that the new Payment by Results tariff issued for 2009/10 has been refined by the
Department of Health to reflect the cost
of this specialist work was welcomed
by the Trust.