Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was an
NHS foundation trust
A foundation trust is a semi-autonomous organisational unit within the National Health Service in England. They have a degree of independence from the Department of Health and Social Care (and, until the abolition of SHAs in 2013, their local s ...
which ran
Luton and Dunstable University Hospital
Luton and Dunstable University Hospital is an acute hospital in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, run by Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It provides medical and surgical services for over 350,000 people in southern Bedfordshire, the nor ...
. The trust acquired
Bedford Hospital NHS Trust on 1 April 2020, forming
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Governance
The trust was run by a
Board of Directors
A board of directors (commonly referred simply as the board) is an executive committee that jointly supervises the activities of an organization, which can be either a for-profit or a nonprofit organization such as a business, nonprofit organiz ...
, made up of
Non-Executive Director
A non-executive director (abbreviated to non-exec, NED or NXD), independent director or external director is a member of the board of directors of a corporation, such as a company, cooperative or non-government organization, but not a member of the ...
s and
Chairman
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, a
Chief Executive
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and
Executive Directors. The last Chief Executive was David Carter, who took up the post in February 2018.
Statistics
In the financial year 2007–2008, the Trust employed over 3400 staff, and had an annual spend of £169 million.
In the same year the Trust handled:
*Over 60,000 in-patient admissions;
*Over 200,000 out-patient appointments;
*Over 61,000 attendances at the A&E department;
*Over 5,000 births.
Technology
The Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust has announced that it has been provided with a new speech driven system, the ContactPortal by
Telephonetics, to improve call management and communications at the Trust.
On average the Trust takes over 4000 phone calls per day from outside, plus thousands more internally. The
ContactPortal acts as a virtual operator 24 hours a day, using
speech recognition
Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers with the m ...
technology to answer, transfer and make
telephone
A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into e ...
calls.
In September 2016, the trust was selected by
NHS England
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as one of twelve
Global Digital Exemplar
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s.
Development
Galliford Try
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Formerly involved in house-build ...
were appointed the preferred supply chain partner for the £150 million redevelopment of Luton hospital including a new £80m ‘hot block’ unit for critical care and surgery in October 2015.
The trust was one of the biggest beneficiaries of
Boris Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (; born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, writer and journalist who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022. He previously served as F ...
's announcement of capital funding for the NHS in August 2019, with an allocation of £99.5 million for a new intensive care, a delivery suite and operating theatres.
See also
*
Healthcare in Bedfordshire Healthcare in Bedfordshire is the responsibility of Bedfordshire and Luton Integrated Care Systems.
History
From 1947 to 1965 NHS services in Bedfordshire were managed by the North-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. In 1974 the Boards wer ...
References
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Health in Bedfordshire
Defunct NHS trusts