£1.5m a day to run our Trust

PENNINE Acute Trust, which runs the Royal Oldham Hospital, holds its annual public meeting on Tuesday, September 13.

The event takes place at North Manchester General Hospital’s post-graduate centre in Crumpsall.

The trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in England, and employs around 10,000 people.

It also runs Fairfield General Hospital in Bury, North Manchester General Hospital, Rochdale Infirmary and services at Birch Hill Hospital.

Chairman John Jesky will be joined by chief executive, John Saxby, and other members of the board, to adopt the organisation’s 2010/11 annual report and financial accounts, and to take questions from the public.

Mr Jesky will talk about the progress and achievements of the past year, and thank staff for their commitment.

Presentations will be given by Dr Alec Bonington, consultant in infectious diseases, and the maxillo-facial team.

Over the past year, the trust spent around £1.5 million a day, equating to more than half a billion pounds a year, providing health services for local people.

It has invested £24.9million on capital programmes and maintenance, and on smaller projects to develop frontline services, and spent £4million on medical and scientific equipment.

A total of 310,688 people were seen in its hospitals accident and emergency departments, and staff saw 694,500 outpatients, 78,240 day cases and 218,277 inpatients.

A total of 10,384 babies were delivered, 1,749,068 meals were provided, and more than 4.4 million kgs of linen were laundered.

Light refreshments will be available from 5.45pm, and the meeting starts at 6.30pm. The post-graduate centre is towards the main entrance of the hospital.

The annual report will be available on the trust’s website after the meeting.