Colchester Hospital UniversityNHS Foundation Trust

Dr Tim Howes

Foundation Programme Director

Colchester Hospital UniversityNHS Foundation Trust

Colchester Hospital UniversityNHS Foundation Trust

This is north east Essex.

This is the Trust that serves the people of north east Essex…

Colchester Hospital UniversityNHS Foundation Trust

Local Context: Population 370,000 for local acute

services, 670,000 for non-surgical oncology services

Main commissioner: North East Essex PCT

Strong relationship commissioners:Mid Essex | East Suffolk

Principal towns: Colchester | Clacton Harwich | Halstead

Colchester Hospital UniversityNHS Foundation Trust

Our Trust Main sites:

Colchester General Hospital and Essex County Hospital

Employs 3,300 staff

65603 A&E attendances: 2008/09

289430 outpatient appointments: 2008/09

69558 inpatient & daycase spells: 2008/09

3524 babies delivered: 2008/09

6200+ public members: Jan 2010

Colchester Hospital UniversityNHS Foundation Trust

Our vision 93%* of our patients

surveyed would recommend us to their family and friends.

* SOURCE: National Inpatient Survey September 2007. 850 polled, 531 replied.

Colchester Hospital UniversityNHS Foundation Trust

Rotations

Surgery (including Breast/plastics & Urology) Care of the Elderly Medicine (Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Renal,

Thoracic, Endocrine) Paediatrics Critical Care Anaesthetics ENT Surgery Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Colchester Hospital UniversityNHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Led Support

Educational Supervisor Career Counselling Training/Exam Advice Ongoing support throughout year

Colchester Hospital UniversityNHS Foundation Trust

Education & Training

E-portfolio Based Specific F1/F2 Teaching Schedule Grand Round Clinical Presentations Individual Department Training – including lunch

presentations Specialty Taster Sessions Available University Links – University of Essex, Anglia Ruskin

University, University of London

Colchester Hospital UniversityNHS Foundation Trust

Resource Centre

Computer Aided Learning Medical Library - Access to a wide range of

general and specialist journals and standard

textbooks Fully Equipped Training Centre

Colchester Hospital UniversityNHS Foundation Trust

Specialist Centres

Laparoscopic (Keyhole) Surgery – ICENI unit (today the unit carries out more advanced keyhole surgery than anywhere else in the UK)

Oncology (cancer) service - People from all over north and mid-Essex come to our Essex County Hospital cancer centre for our radiotherapy service, which had an exemplar cancer peer review in 2006.

Our stroke unit – according to the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement our stroke unit is in the top 10 performing units in the NHS.

Colchester Hospital UniversityNHS Foundation Trust

On-Site Facilities

Restaurant Tea Bars League of Friends Bus services come right into the Colchester General

Hospital grounds and stop at Essex County Hospital Nearby is a 24-hour Asda with its petrol station,

pharmacy and cash machines Town centre mile and a half away

Colchester Hospital UniversityNHS Foundation Trust

Any Questions?