Welcome to the Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust Publication Scheme
The Classes of Information
The information is grouped into broad categories as follows: -
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Class 1 Who we are and what we do
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Class 2 What we spend and how we spend it
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Class 3 What are out priorities and how we are doing
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Class 4 How we make decisions
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Class 5 Our policies and procedures
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Class 6 List and Registers
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Class 7 Services we offer
CLASS 1 – WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO
Trust Profile
Established in 1992 as ‘Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust’, the Trust provides well regarded local elective and emergency services to approximately 360,000 people living in and around the towns of Chelmsford, Maldon, Braintree and Witham. The Trust also provides a regional plastics, head and neck and upper gastrointestinal (upper GI) surgical service to a population of 3.2 million and a supra regional burns service to a population of 9.8 million.
The Trust has enjoyed a strong clinical reputation for many years as demonstrated by Healthcare Commission assessments and the establishment of regional and supra regional services including plastics and burns, upper GI and head and neck surgery.
The Trust, based in the heart of Essex, employs over 3,700 staff and provides services from six sites in and around Chelmsford, Maldon and Braintree. The main site is Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford which is being redeveloped as a £148m capital scheme financed under a Private Finance Initiative (PFI).
Please Click Here to find more information about the PFI scheme.
The Trust has successfully delivered ambitious savings plans in both 2006/07 and 2007/08 while improving its HCC assessment (for quality of services) from good to excellent. The Trust will build on this positive momentum to further improve the patient experience as the Trust becomes a Foundation Trust (FT).
CLASS 2 - WHAT WE SPEND AND HOW WE SPEND IT
The Trust publishes its accounts annually.
Please Click Here to access the Annual Accounts.
CLASS 3 - WHAT ARE OUR PRIORITIES AND HOW WE ARE DOING
Looking ahead, the Trust’s strategic vision is based upon its overall objective to protect and develop both market share and its current range of services. Given its range of specialties, the Trust wants to develop is vision to be ‘more than a District General Hospital (DGH)’ and as such its future objectives will be based on the following:
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Provision of excellent local acute services;
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Provision of specialist services;
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Provision of care outside the hospital; and
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Provision of other services that the market may require.
The Trust believes that service provision will continue to evolve rapidly over the next 10 years. Two core strategies have therefore been developed to achieve the objective of protecting and developing market share and product mix:
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Differentiating itself from its existing competitors and new market entrants on a reputation of excellence and safety – the Trust’s strategy is underpinned by a need to put patients first (in terms of their safety and experience). Furthermore, it recognises the need to meet and where possible exceed standards expected of it. Innovation will be used to keep the Trust able to respond to its competitive threats.
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Building the right capacity- ensuring the Trust develops its use of estates, staffing and IT resources to allow it to respond rapidly, flexibly and innovatively to the changing healthcare needs of the population.
Please Click Here to find out the Trust’s current position against its measured targets.
CLASS 4 - HOW WE MAKE DECISIONS
The Trust Board meets monthly usually on the second Monday of each Month. Parts 1 of alternate Board Meetings are open to the public. Dates and venues are advertised in the Essex Chronicle and will be available on the Trust website (pending).
Please Click Here for the full reporting sub-group structure.
CLASS 5 - OUR POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
Please Click Here to access the Trust's policies and guidelines.
CLASS 6 - LISTS AND REGISTERS
The Following Registers are held by the Trust Board Secretary
Others Documents are :
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Risk Register - Risk Manager
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Asset Register - Financial Services
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Directors interests - on the website
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Current E&F Contractors - Estates & Facilities (Please Click Here for the current list of contractors)
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Document Register - Information Governance Manager
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Training Prospectus - Workforce Development
Class 7 - SERVICES WE OFFER
Please Click Here to find out what services the Trust offers.
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