Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust runs
Bradford Royal Infirmary and
St Luke's Hospital in
Bradford
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,
West Yorkshire
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, England.
History
The Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust took over the management of Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke's Hospital from Bradford Health Authority in April 1991.
The Trust changed its name to Bradford Teaching Hospitals in April 2003 before applying to become an
NHS foundation trust
An NHS foundation trust is a semi-autonomous organisational unit within the National Health Service (England), National Health Service in England. They have a degree of independence from the Department of Health and Social Care (and, until the a ...
. It achieved this status in April 2004.
A new ultrasound suite was opened at the Bradford Royal Infirmary in December 2013 to reduce waiting time for patients needing scans. The suite took three months to complete and has increased the number of scanning rooms from two to five.
In October 2018 it announced that
GE Healthcare was building a new command centre at
Bradford Royal Infirmary powered by
artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...
which is intended to help staff make quick and informed decisions on how to best manage patient care based on streams of real-time data. Such a thing has not been established in Europe before, though there are several in North America.
Sites
Besides managing
Bradford Royal Infirmary and
St Luke's Hospital the Trust also manages:
*Eccleshill Community Hospital
*Westbourne Green Community Hospital
*Westwood Park Community Hospital
Performance
In January 2014
Monitor
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launched an investigation into the Trust, following concerns raised by the
Care Quality Commission
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about accident and emergency staffing levels after an unannounced inspection in September and October 2013 when they found a shortage of nursing staff and senior medical cover especially from midnight and throughout the night.
See also
*
List of NHS trusts
This list of NHS trusts in England provides details of current and former English NHS trusts, NHS foundation trusts, acute hospital trusts, ambulance trusts, mental health trust
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References
External links
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NHS foundation trusts
Health in Yorkshire