Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Updated 9 April 2020

Bradford teaching hospitals became an NHS foundation trust in April 2004. It is responsible for providing hospital services for the people of Bradford and communities across Yorkshire. It serves a core population of around 530,000 people and provides specialist services for around 1.2 million people in the region. Specialist services include;

•Neonatal care

•Urology

•Vascular services

•Renal care

•Cancer care

•Cochlear implants

•Cardiology

Almost 5,800 staff work over several sites at the trust. There are around 500 volunteers at the trust who support the care of patients and visitors. Bradford Royal Infirmary is the main acute hospital. It provides acute services, diagnostics and outpatient services. There is an emergency department providing 24 hour, seven days a week, comprehensive accident and emergency service; this includes including resuscitation and high dependency unit, ambulatory care unit, dedicated paediatric service and a primary care streaming service.

St Luke’s hospital is the second hospital in terms of size and services provided. It has an inpatient intermediate care ward, and a wide range of outpatient and therapy services.

In addition, there were four smaller community hospitals in different areas of the city. Shipley hospital provides outpatients, diagnostic services and therapy services. Eccleshill community hospital provides diagnostic and outpatient services and day surgery. Westbourne Green community hospital has an intermediate care ward and provides outpatient services. Westwood Park diagnostic and treatment centre has an inpatient intermediate care ward and provides medical care and diagnostic and outpatient services.

Annually there are around 6000 babies born, over 140,000 attendances in A &E, 120,000 in-patients who receive care, and 500,000 outpatients’ appointments. There are around 300,000 surgical operations each year. There are around 780 in-patient beds.

In early 2017, a new £28 million wing opened at Bradford Royal Infirmary, part of a £75 million investment to improve patient care. A £2 million refurbishment of the accident and emergency department was also completed in 2017.

The trust is a teaching hospital, with strong links to local universities. The Bradford Institute for Health Research (BIHR) was established in 2007 by the trust. Since then the BIHR has developed and increased its expertise in clinical research and applied health research to support better patient outcomes and improved healthcare throughout the Bradford community. In 2018 over 41,000 people were recruited to research studies, and there were over 650 active research studies in 2018/2019.

Services provided at the trust are commissioned by four main clinical commissioning groups (CCGs);

•NHS Bradford City CCG

•NHS Bradford Districts CCG

•NHS Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven CCG

•NHS England Specialist Commissioning.

The trust is a member of the West Yorkshire association of acute trusts (WYAAT) which worked to develop and deliver collaborative solutions to some regional health challenges.

Updated 9 April 2020

Our rating of the trust improved. We rated it as good because:

• We rated safe, caring, responsive and well led as good. We rated effective as requires improvement.
• At this inspection we inspected four of the core services. We rated three of the services as good, and one as requires improvement. In rating the trust, we took into account the current ratings of the other services not inspected this time.
• We rated well-led for the trust overall as good; this was not an aggregation of the core service ratings for well-led.

Updated 9 April 2020

Updated 9 April 2020

Updated 2 October 2025

Date of the assessment was 22 to 23 October 2025.

We visited community health inpatient services at Westwood Park Community Hospital and Westbourne Green Community Hospital. We gave verbal feedback which we confirmed in a letter to the Trust shortly after our inspection.

We spoke to patients and carers and observed the care of patients. We carried out tours of the environments at the sites we visited and spoke to a range of nursing and therapies staff.

Community health inpatient services at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust were provided at three hospitals located at Westwood Park, Westbourne Green and St Luke’s Hospital. At Westwood Park and Westbourne Green there were 18 beds per unit.

We had previously inspected community health inpatient services in June 2016. We had rated the safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led domains as good. Our overall rating was good.

During this inspection our ratings stayed the same, and the overall rating was good. We found that the service was open and transparent and had a positive learning culture. The environment was accessible for patients and staff had all the equipment required to safely support patients. Staffing was good, with a low turnover of staff, and the service had not required bank or agency staff in the last 12 months. Completion of mandatory training was at 100% for almost all modules.

Staff completed comprehensive risk assessments and worked well as a multidisciplinary team to ensure that patients had access to additional care and treatment when required. The service completed regular audits to monitor and improve outcomes for patients.

Staff were kind and compassionate and staff were proud to work for the organisation. The service had no complaints in the last 12 months, but staff were responsive when concerns were raised through the discharge surveys or Friends and Family Tests.

Staff felt listened to and supported by leaders. Managers had good systems and processes in place to manage risk and ensure patient safety.