Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool
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This hospital is part of Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
General hospital information
- Number of beds: 284
- % of single rooms: 29%
- Total parking spaces: 1009
- Average parking fee per hour: £0.06
Address & description
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest specialist healthcare providers in Western Europe, providing care for over 200,000 children and young people each year. It is one of only four stand-alone paediatric trusts in the UK and it's paediatric A&E is the biggest in the country, treating over 60,000 patients every year. Alder Hey has a national and international reputation as a Centre of Excellence for children with cancer, heart, spinal and brain disease and is also a Department of Health Designated Centre for head and face surgery.
Staffed by approximately 2,600 employees, Alder Hey provides a range of 20 specialist services for a local population of 7.6million. The majority of services are provided at the West Derby site while 600 clinics are held across the North West, North Wales and Isle of Man. As a a renowned teaching hospital, Alder Hey takes on 550 medical students and 400 nursing students each year.
Alder Hey is a top performing Trust, rated double 'Excellent' by the independent Care Quality Commission in 2009, putting it in the top 1.8% of Trusts nationally. The Trust is England's first public health promoting paediatric hospital accredited by the World Health Organisation and the first hospital in the country to receive Investing in Children.
The Trust is committed to delivering clinical excellence in all of its services and has further demonstrated this by achieving: • maintained 'best in class' standardised mortality rates • number of cases of MRSA and C-Diff below upper limit set by CQC • reduced medication errors • NHSLA Level 3 standard, demonstrating improved management of risk • establishment of Europe's first paediatric intra-operative 3-T MRI scanner and theatre suite • the opening of a state-of -the-art designated Burns Centre
Alder Hey is leading the field in paediatric health research and hosts the UK Medicines for Children Research Network (MCRN) in conjunction with the University of Liverpool. Over the past 12 months, the Trust increased its research income to £3.8million and participated in over 90 clinical research studies.
Founded in 1914, Alder Hey was originally intended as a workhouse for infirm paupers and the Trust is now engaged in planning a new, state-of-the-art Children's Health Park at the adjacent Springfield Park. The Trust hopes to begin building the new hospital in 2012 to open its doors in October 2014, marking its 100th Anniversary.
Alder Hey is supported by two registered charities, The Imagine Appeal and Ronald McDonald House. The Imagine Appeal was launched in 2005 and has the support of Yoko Ono who allowed a sketch by John Lennon to be used as the logo. Since its launch the Imagine fundraising team has secured support from many national companies and a number of high profile celebrity patrons. Ronald McDonald House is the biggest purpose-built House in the world with 70 rooms and provides a 'home away from home' for parents of children who are being treated in the hospital. The House is funded and run entirely by charitable donations.
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Accident & Emergency services at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust
cardiac services (heart attack) |
National average | |
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| Patients having thrombolytic treatment within 30 minutes of arriving at hospital |
N/A
 The National Service Framework (NSF) for coronary heart disease (CHD) states that 75% of eligible heart attack patients in England should receive thrombolytic drugs within 30 minutes of arriving at hospital. Read more about this indicator.
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75% |
| Patients having thrombolytic treatment within 60 minutes of calling for help |
N/A
This standard reflects the combined performance of the ambulance service, general practitioners (GPs) and hospitals and is the most relevant overall indicator of care of heart attack patients. It encourages collaborative working across all relevant NHS organisations, particularly between ambulance services and hospitals to reduce delays to thrombolytic treatment. The call for professional help will usually be direct to the ambulance service but may be to a GP or NHS Direct. The Department of Health has set NHS organisations in England the target of 68% of patients receiving thrombolytic treatment within 60 minutes of calling for professional help. Read more about this indicator
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68% |
| Primary angioplasty within 90 minutes of arrival at interventional centre door |
N/A
An interim good practice standard of 90 minutes from arrival at an interventional hospital to the time when the blocked artery is reopened (door to balloon time) has been established for provision of primary angioplasty, based on international guidelines.
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90% |
| Patients discharged from hospital on secondary prevention medication | ||
| Asprin | N/A | 99% |
| Beta blocker | N/A | 96% |
| Statins | N/A | 97% |
| ACE inhibitor | N/A | 94% |
| Clopidogrel | N/A | 95% |