CASE STUDY

Case Study

Case Study

Calderdale Royal Hospital

Financial Analysis

The table below summarises the position of the Foundation Trust for the year ending 31 March 2009(www.cht.nhs.uk).

In the third year as a Foundation Trust Calderdale Royal Hospital reported a strong fiscal performance. The target for 2009 was to have a fiscal surplus of £1.55m. The real surplus for 2009 was £2.46m. The advanced surplus position was mostly due to the acceptance of wages atop arrange for the therapy of patients over signed up stages, counterbalance by advanced charges atop arrange to bring ahead this additional clinical activity. The surplus produced will be reinvested in enhanced services and apparatus in future years to gain enduring care. It has been a productive year in terms of the Cash Releasing Efficiency Savings (CRES) objectives that all the separations were demanded to bring ahead, in line with the 3% reduction in the Payment by Results tariff uplift. The CRES objective set for all clinical and non-clinical separations was £7.12m and this was entirely achieved. The arranged stage of total wages for the year was £281.43m, and the real wages of £290.91m exemplifies an over-recovery of £9.48m. Of this supplemental wages over plan, £4.17m connects to supplemental wages engendered by clinical pursuit atop levels commissioned by the PCTs. The outstanding £5.32m is either from non-NHS basis or relates to wages deduced from pursuits other than the direct provision of healthcare to patients. To bring ahead the supplemental stages of wages, supplemental charges atop arrange were earned and the running charges exceeded arrange by £8.24m in 2008/09(www.cht.nhs.uk). During the year, some very extraordinary charges were arranged for and were incurred. These relate to impairment accusations on fastened assets (land and buildings). This was as a result of the general lessening in real estate costs as long as 2008/09, a change in the valuation methodology employed by the certified assembly to worth the land and constructions (as required by HM Treasury), and the consequence of taking some rental accommodation blocks at St.Luke's Hospital place in Huddersfield out of operational use. These impairment costs did not consequence on the currency location of the Trust. These details are considered 'exceptional' in harmony with accounting benchmarks under UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (UK GAAP), explicitly Financial Reporting Standard 3: Reporting Financial Performance. 

Progress

Recent expansion and achievements at the Hospital include(www.cht.nhs.uk):

The inauguration of a exclusive women's unit for breast and gynaecology inpatients

A new £250,000 state-of-the-art laminar flow functioning theatre, which presents an ultra-clean natural environment for orthopaedic surgery

A new play locality at the children development unit

The exceptional care baby unit commemorated a record 10 years at the peak with Practice Development Unit accreditation every year for a decade

Hospital assisted conception unit assisted one in three couples who suffered IVF treatment has a triumphant outcome last year contrast to a nationwide average of one in four.

Smoking Shelters are being constructed at Calderdale's hospital to move smokers from the entrance. Bosses at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust - who made their structures smoke-free three years before - are now designing to establish covers to move smokers away from the major doors. They would be in the vehicle reserve to the left of the entry ...