Trust reveals aims to boost patient care and cut costs
Date published: 31 July 2012
REDUCING patients’ length of hospital stay and providing care closer to home are among hospital chiefs’ aims to save money this year.
The initiatives were suggested as the trust in charge of the Royal Oldham Hospital revealed it spends £1.5 million a day on its four hospitals.
The trust is one of the largest in the North-West and one of the largest non-teaching trusts in England, running North Manchester General, Fairfield General, in Bury, and Rochdale Infirmary, as well as the Royal Oldham Hospital.
In 2011-12, the trust spent over half a billion pounds on providing healthcare services.
The trust saw over 317,000 accident and emergency cases, 702,000 outpatients, 215 inpatients, 76,000 day cases, and delivered over 10,000 babies. Community staff made 112,000 home visits.
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