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PERFORMANCE REPORT
OVERVIEW nursing and allied health professional students each
year. In April 2017 Alder Hey welcomed 120 new
The following section of the report is designed community staff from Liverpool Community Health
to provide a broad overview of Alder Hey as an NHS Trust as part of the transfer of a number of
organisation: what we are about, what we are aiming paediatric community services, including Speech and
to deliver for our patients and families, the risks to Language Therapy, Physiotherapy and Community
achieving this and how successful we have been in the Matrons.
last year.
Our operating turnover is £263m of which £213m
ABOUT THE TRUST directly relates to the clinical services we provide; 33%
of our clinical income is non-specialised and 67% is
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a specialised. Our principal contract is with NHS England
provider of specialist health care to over 275,000 for tertiary and quaternary care. The Trust also serves a
children and young people each year. In addition to the wide population base for secondary care with Liverpool
hospital site at West Derby in north Liverpool, Alder Hey Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) hosting the £55m
has a presence at a number of community outreach contract on behalf of 21 associate CCG’s in the North
sites and in collaboration with other providers, our West of England. In addition we have a contract with of
clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes £15m with commissioners in Wales.
by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to
Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust Alder Hey offers a number of specialist services and
also provides inpatient care for children with complex we are one of only two providers in the North West
mental health needs at our Alder Park building in the designated to receive the specialist children’s top up
nearby borough of Sefton. to national tariff for this work. We are one of the two
accredited major trauma units for children in the North
The Trust employs a workforce of 3,387 staff who West and are also nationally commissioned as one of
work across our community and hospital sites and as four epilepsy surgical centres, a service we provide in
a teaching and training hospital we provide education partnership with Manchester Children’s Hospital. As
and training to around 540 medical and over 500 the regional cardiac surgical centre we continue to lead
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