Wythenshawe Hospital
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The University Hospital of South Manchester (UHSM) is a major acute teaching hospital in Wythenshawe
, south Manchester
, England
. It provides services for adults and children at Wythenshawe Hospital and Withington Community Hospital
(the latter owned by Manchester PCT). It recognised as a centre of clinical excellence, and provides district general hospital services and specialist tertiary services to its surrounding community.
The hospital has occupied a leading position in UK interventional cardiology
, cardiac imaging, cardiac electrophysiology
and cardiothoracic surgery for over four decades. One of only six UK heart and lung transplantation centres, it is now developing a rapidly evolving Ventricular Assist Device programme. Further nationally recognised departments include respiratory medicine, burns and plastics, as well as cancer and breast care services. The hospital is also recognised in the region and nationally for the quality of its teaching, research and development. Major research programmes focus on cancer, lung disease, wound management and medical education.
UHSM has approximately 5,500 staff, including those employed by its Private Finance Initiative partner South Manchester Healthcare Limited. In recent years the Trust has consistently demonstrated sound financial management and generated annual revenue surpluses on its income that are re-invested in services. It was the first hospital in the NHS to go from 0 ratings to 3 stars, after the introduction of a new system rating hospitals. UHSM is top in the North West when it comes to patient satisfaction, and 6th best in the country.
2008 assessment
According to the last Healthcare Commission assessment in 2008, it was one of a few trusts in the North West to achieve 'excellent' ratings for both parts of the study, both use of resources and quality of services. It also scored as follows in other parts of the report:
• 12/13 for safety and cleanliness
• 10/13 for waiting to be seen
• 5/5 for keeping the public healthy
• 9/9 for standard of care
• 9/10 for dignity and respect
• 17/17 for good management
Many of the services and facilities previously at Withington Hospital were transferred here in 2004.
Wythenshawe
Wythenshawe is a district in the south of the city of Manchester, England.Formerly part of the administrative county of Cheshire, in 1931 Wythenshawe was transferred to the City of Manchester, which had begun building a massive housing estate there in the 1920s to resolve the problem of its inner...
, south Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
, England
England
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. It provides services for adults and children at Wythenshawe Hospital and Withington Community Hospital
Withington Community Hospital
Withington Community Hospital is a hospital in south Manchester, England...
(the latter owned by Manchester PCT). It recognised as a centre of clinical excellence, and provides district general hospital services and specialist tertiary services to its surrounding community.
Description
Its fields of specialist expertise include cutting edge cardiac services based in the new North West Heart Centrehttp://www.uhsm.nhs.uk/NWHeartCentre/Pages/home.aspx.The hospital has occupied a leading position in UK interventional cardiology
Interventional cardiology
Interventional cardiology is a branch of cardiology that deals specifically with the catheter based treatment of structural heart diseases. Andreas Gruentzig is considered the father of interventional cardiology after the development of angioplasty by interventional radiologist, Dr. Charles...
, cardiac imaging, cardiac electrophysiology
Cardiac electrophysiology
Cardiac electrophysiology is the science of elucidating, diagnosing, and treating the electrical activities of the heart. The term is usually used to describe studies of such phenomena by invasive catheter recording of spontaneous activity as well as of cardiac responses to programmed electrical...
and cardiothoracic surgery for over four decades. One of only six UK heart and lung transplantation centres, it is now developing a rapidly evolving Ventricular Assist Device programme. Further nationally recognised departments include respiratory medicine, burns and plastics, as well as cancer and breast care services. The hospital is also recognised in the region and nationally for the quality of its teaching, research and development. Major research programmes focus on cancer, lung disease, wound management and medical education.
UHSM has approximately 5,500 staff, including those employed by its Private Finance Initiative partner South Manchester Healthcare Limited. In recent years the Trust has consistently demonstrated sound financial management and generated annual revenue surpluses on its income that are re-invested in services. It was the first hospital in the NHS to go from 0 ratings to 3 stars, after the introduction of a new system rating hospitals. UHSM is top in the North West when it comes to patient satisfaction, and 6th best in the country.
2008 assessment
According to the last Healthcare Commission assessment in 2008, it was one of a few trusts in the North West to achieve 'excellent' ratings for both parts of the study, both use of resources and quality of services. It also scored as follows in other parts of the report:
• 12/13 for safety and cleanliness
• 10/13 for waiting to be seen
• 5/5 for keeping the public healthy
• 9/9 for standard of care
• 9/10 for dignity and respect
• 17/17 for good management
History
The present Wythenshawe Hospital was built in the early years of the 21st century on the site of the former Baguley Sanatorium.Many of the services and facilities previously at Withington Hospital were transferred here in 2004.