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The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust





Welcome

The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust is one of the largest general hospitals in the East of England. It a provides hospital-based health care to more than 340,000 people who live in and around Ipswich and East Suffolk.

We provide a range of secondary care for a number of medical and surgical specialties, routine and specialist diagnostic services and other clinical support services to a catchment area comprising of approximately 340,000 people in, and close to, the east Suffolk area. The Trust also provides a number of tertiary and specialist services, such as spinal surgery and cancer surgery to a wider population, as well as outreach services in a number of clinical specialties.

Across its 46-acre site, the Trust employs nearly 3,200 whole time equivalent NHS staff.

Strategic Objectives

The hospital’s mission is to be renowned for its commitment to excellence in the provision of healthcare, with an emphasis on safe, reliable personal and responsive emergency care, planned care, maternity and children’s care; nationally recognized care for older people in hospital; and providing a number of more specialised services where they meet defined accreditation standards.

The overall aim of the hospital is captured in the strap line ‘our passion, your care’, and it is underpinned by five strategic objectives which are to:

  • Deliver standards of quality and safety for patients that are consistently rated as excellent.

  • Enable patients and other service users to access our services quickly and conveniently.

  • Develop an empowered, innovative and accountable workforce.

  • Demonstrate responsible, accountable and effective financial management

  • Engage our stakeholders in an open, responsive and structured way.


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