Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for providing hospital services for the people of Bradford and, in a growing number of specialties, for communities across Yorkshire.
We became a Foundation Trust on April 1 2004 – among the very first in the NHS to do so, and the number of local people who have become members since then has risen to over 50,000 members.
We employ just over 5,200 staff, serving a core population of around 500,000 and providing specialist services for 1.1 million people.
We currently operate over several sites; the Bradford Royal Infirmary provides the majority of inpatient services, and St Luke's Hospital provides outpatient and rehabilitation services. On 1 April 2011, we welcomed staff from Bradford and Airedale Community Health Services as part of the government’s re-organising of the NHS. We also took over the running of four community hospitals: Westwood Park, Westbourne Green, Shipley Hospital and Eccleshill Community Hospital.
Bradford Royal Infirmary is home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country, with more than 125,000 attendances each year. Its maternity unit is also one of the NHS’s busiest, delivering more than 6,000 babies each year.
As a teaching hospital, the Foundation Trust is at the forefront of research, education and development in healthcare.
The Trust runs ambitious programmes such as the Yorkshire Cochlear Implant Service from the hi-tech Listening For Life Centre, and the Born In Bradford project which is based at the Bradford Institute of Health Research unit based in the grounds of the BRI.
The Foundation Trust has an excellent record of meeting the national targets such as treatment within 18 weeks from referral, being seen within 4 hours in A&E and treating cancer.
The last few years has seen us being named as among the very safest hospitals in the NHS by the leading national health research organisation, Dr Foster.
