Building a Better Future for Poole Hospital

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Building a Better Future for Poole Hospital

• Your chance to have your say
• Our NHS Foundation Trust application consultation

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What are NHS Foundation Trusts?

• New types of organisation
• Firmly part of the NHS
• Accountable to local people and staff, not
  Central Government
• Independent Regulator Monitor
• Local people can join as members its free
• Gives you a greater say in how we develop services

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Why become a Foundation Trust?

• Builds on the way we work already
• Closer partnerships
• More responsive services
• Formally answerable to members, patients and
  staff
• Greater freedom over future services and
  developments
• New options to earn, borrow and save money we
  can keep and re-invest surpluses
• Better future

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About us

• We provide
• Acute hospital services for Poole, East Dorset
  and Purbeck
• Major trauma centre for East Dorset
• Ear, nose and throat, children and specialist
  maternity for Poole, Purbeck, East Dorset and
  Bournemouth and Christchurch
• Oral surgery, neurological and cancer care for
  the whole of Dorset

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About us

• We have
• 789 beds (74 for day cases)
• an unusual case mix 85 per cent of our
  inpatients are emergencies
• 4,300 people working for us
• An annual turnover of 150million

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About us

• Each year we treat
• 44,500 inpatients
• 17,500 day cases
• 64,000 new outpatients
• 53,000 people in accident and emergency

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About us

• Last year we
• balanced our books
• cut waiting list numbers and times
• met targets for A and E, cancer and heart
  patients
• reduced delayed discharges and MRSA
• scored high staff and patient satisfaction rates
• were rated excellent for food and good for
  cleanliness
• good in the annual health check

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Our values, our vision

• The Poole Approach
• friendly, professional patient centred care with
  dignity and respect
• Excellent services
• Five key goals
• robust resource management
• improve the patients experience
• highly motivated workforce
• strong public engagement
• successful partnership working

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Our future services

• Waiting times
• Cancer services
• Accident and emergency
• Maternity and NICU
• Cardiology
• Day Care
• Diagnostics
• Reshaping services for delivery in the community

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The consultation

• Why?
• To help you understand what becoming a Foundation
  Trust will mean
• Make sure we understand your views
• Enable us to develop final proposals that take
  into account YOUR views and opinions
• Offer you the opportunity to become members

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The consultation

• When?
• Monday 6 November, 2006 to Friday 2 February,2007
• What?
• How we would be governed (governance
  arrangements)
• Where our member representatives come from, how
  many, how they are elected/appointed
• Not
• a referendum on becoming a Foundation Trust

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Our proposals

• As an NHS Foundation Trust, we would have
• A membership made up of local people, patients
  and staff
• A Council of Member Representatives that will
  include people elected from our public and staff
  members and nominated by our partner
  organisations
• A Board of Directors, made up of a chairman, five
  each non-executive and executive directors
• Clear constitutional arrangements

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Our proposals

• Three groups of members/representatives
• Public (majority)
• over 12 years old
• live in Poole, Purbeck, East Dorset,
  Bournemouth, Christchurch, North Dorset, West
  Dorset or Weymouth and Portland
• not employed by Poole Hospital
• Staff members
• All staff and volunteers will be offered
  automatic membership unless they opt out
• Appointed member representatives
• local authorities, PCTs, education

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Our proposals

• Constituencies based on
• electoral boundaries
• population size/make-up in relation to our
  patient flows

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Our proposals
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Our proposals

• Six appointed member representatives nominated by
  partner organisations

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Our proposals
This would give us a total of 24 member
representatives made up from
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What next?

• Application to the Secretary of State for Health
  16 February 2007
• Secretary of State approval by 20 March 2007
• Written ministerial statement by 22 March, 2007
• Independent regulator (Monitor) assessment begins
  2 April 2007
• Elections to Council of Member Representatives
• Authorisation - July 2007

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How can I help?

• Give us your views
• Deadline
• FRIDAY 2 FEBRUARY 2007
• Support us by becoming a member
• Fill in a form or online www.poole.nhs.uk
• Stand for election to the Council of Member
  Representatives