Location:
Seminar rooms, Gledhow Wing, St James’s University Hospital, Beckett Street, LS9 7TF
Date/Time:
Wednesday 25 September 2024 at 4.00pm – 5.30pm
Duration:
Approx. 1 hour
Annual General Meeting 2024 Documents
Download 2023-24 Annual Report and Annual Accounts
Download 2023-24 Auditors Annual Report
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Annual General Meeting 2024 presentation videos
The Leeds Way
The Leeds Way – it’s who we are
The Leeds way it’s how we do things here, it’s who we are what we do and how we do it
our patients are at the center of everything we do
we want to create a healthier and more caring City we want to improve the health of our communities
It’s the right Health Care at the right time in the right place because everyone deserves the best health and we are a center of excellence without research and innovation we wouldn’t be where we are today and without research and Innovation we can’t move on from here
we want research to be available for all we find the positives even in the most difficult of situations because sometimes the worst experiences show us the way to change
we will always learn to improve and come back stronger we can’t do this on our own this means pulling together having each other’s backs
supporting one another through thick and thin we will prioritize the well-being of our people because they consistently prioritize the well-being of others over themselves we want to be the best place to work we all want to break down barriers we want to create better Healthcare we’re in this together
we are the leads way
Hospitals of the Future
LTHT Hospital of the Future project
The UK’s fastest growing city. Home to one of the largest and busiest acute trusts in the country. Delivering specialist treatment and care. To 1.6 million patients and every year across Leeds and beyond. The future of healthcare is evolving. patients needs are changing. Medical advancements are accelerating. And out hospitals are ageing.
We have a bold vision to transform healthcare for the future. We will create a new state of the art hospital at our historical LGI site. A new home for Leeds Children’s Hospital. A new adults’ hospital. And the one of the largest, single-site maternity centres in the country.
Designed for the future. Digitally enabled, meeting the highest sustainability’s standards. And an award winning design. But this is even more than healthcare. We are re-developing our old hospital estate. To harness innovation and stimulate growth. delivering 4,000 jobs and £13bn economic benefit. And the latest research and medical technology to our patients bedside.
We have robust plans which deliver excellent value for public money. A cleared construction site and outline planning consent. We have patients that need our new hospital. We have patients that need our new hospital. We need an environment that reflects the world-class care we provide. We’re ready to go.
Visit the Leeds teaching Hospitals website for more information.
Improvement through innovation
Dame Linda Pollard – AGM
hello I’m Dame Linda chair of Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust the theme of this year’s annual general meeting is improvement through Innovation. This is not just a slogan it’s a philosophy that we have embraced as an organization and a guiding principle for our journey ahead Innovation is often seen as the spark of creativity the bright idea that disrupts Industries and transforms markets.
However at its core Innovation is about Improvement about making things better
smarter and more efficient it’s about challenging the status quo asking the tough questions and daring to imagine what could be. Rather than settling for what is over the past year we have faced challenges that’s tested resilience and adaptability.
But in the face of these challenges we have demonstrated that our commitment to Innovation is unwavering we have explored new technologies refined our processes and introduced fresh perspectives. All with the goal of continuous Improvement whether it’s through enhancing our services and the care we provide.
Streamlining patient Pathways or fostering a culture of creativity within our teams we have shown that Innovation is not just a buzz word it’s a way of life we started work on revolutionary artificial intelligence trials in breast screening our teams.
Have pioneered world first treatments and UK first trials we’ve completed construction on our brand new pathology laboratory. Which will be home to Cutting Edge equipment and specialist Technologies we cared for over 1.6 million patients. We’ve saved and improved lives I encourage everyone to think about how we can continue to improve through Innovation.
We can use our Collective Knowledge and Skills to create the best experience for our patients and become the best place to work how can we better serve our patients our communities and contribute to a sustainable future.
The future of health care is evolving and patients need are changing our hospitals are aging as medical advancements are accelerating. We already have a bold Vision to transform health care for the future. You can see this in our plans to develop the historic LGI site into a new state-of-the-art hospital for adults children and one of the largest maternity units in the country.
Our Innovation Village will bring World leading research and
Innovation to leads and ultimately boost our City’s economy attracting talent and
experience from around the world. We are pleased to support the launch of the new Trum system in leeds and Bradford.
As better connectivity is best for our staff our patients and our partners there is so much to look forward to over the coming months and years let us remember that Innovation is a journey it’s not a destination it requires courage collaboration and a willingness to learn.
From both our success and our failure but most importantly it requires
a shared Vision a belief that we can always do better be better and create better. I am excited about the opportunity that lie ahead and I’m confident that together we can continue to improve through Innovation.
Making our organization and our city stronger and more impactful than ever. Before thankyou for your dedication your passion and your commitment to this journey we want to encourage and celebrate your bold ideas help and support. you join with partners to help that journey and together make meaningful progress.
Review of the Year
Professor Phil Wood – AGM
hello my name is Phil Wood and I’m the chief executive here at leads teaching hospitals NHS trust this year has been one of remarkable Innovation growth and resilience for our teams. we’ve navigated financial and operational challenges and continued to deliver exceptional care for our patients and the communities.
we serve this year saw the introduction of our seven commitments this is our way of prioritizing our work and ensuring everyone in the organization is focusing
on the same things throughout the year thanks to our seven commitments work we have reduced MRSA infections by 40% seen 10% more patients in the
emergency departments within the 4-Hour Emergency Care standard.
we’ve saved over1 130 million pound in efficiencies we’ve had 270 fewer
colleagues leaving the organization. compared to the last year we’ve reduced the average length of stay for our patients by half a day we’ve seen 40% more appointments in Opthalmology since we opened our purpose-built unit and
over 20,000 of our patients were recruited into research studies. it’s been so inspiring to see colleagues coming together working differently and
enjoying coming up up with new ideas.
here are a few of our other achievements this year the leads Major Trauma Center marked 10 years of saving lives across West Yorkshire. treating more than
16,000 seriously injured patients in the UK first heart surgeons at leads
Children’s Hospital performed a pioneering surgical procedure on two
adult patients to treat simitar syndrome. a rare congenital heart condition that
can lead to heart failure the chapel Allon Orthopedic Center will National
accrediation from NHS England’s getting it right first time program.
5,000 patients have received robotics surgery since we installed our first Da Vinci
robotic system and our robotics program has grown to become one of the largest
in the whole NHS. the first breast cancer screening Tri St to use artificial intelligence AI in the UK began run by the team at the Leeds weight field breast screening unit based at coft hospital. we officially opened our new
same day Emergency Care Department alongside the emergency department at St James’s this is part of a 5.5 million scheme.
to maximize patient flow through the emergency department our trust stop
smoking service has supported over 6,000 inpatient or pregnant smokers so far and over 600 have reported that they have unit smoking as a result of the service. we were delighted to welcome lead’s Children’s Hospital Patron her Royal Highness The Duchess of Edinburgh to visit our children’s neurosciences Ward earlier this year the then minister of State for health and secondary care.
will Quin came to visit St James’s to officially open our new Cutting Edge Center for laboratory medicine in fact we welcomed very many visitors to our hospitals last year too many to mention individually. this year’s AGM theme of improvement through innovation has been a key element throughout everything we do but in particular within our research and Innovation work we announced £5 million of funding from the National Institute for Health and Care research to create a healthtech research center in surgical Innovation this will be a partnership with the University of Leeds to improve patient Journeys.
we’ve also announced that we are the host for the new Regional research development Network for Yorkshire and the Humber there are 12 of these networks in the country working to support a world-class system system to deliver high quality research to enable the best care for patients and the public we are the leading trust for recruitment to specialist cancer studies.
the highest adult acute hospital for recruitment to medical device
studies and the highest recruiter for complex Interventional studies I hope
that what I’ve said captures just some of the hard work and dedication our
staff show every every day thank you to our brilliant colleagues partners and of
course our patients and their families we are excited about the opportunities
that lie ahead for all of us together we will build a healthier future for
everyone in leads and the region
Financial review
Jenny Ehrhardt AGM
Hello my name is Jenny aart and I’m the Director of Finance here at Leeds’s Teaching Hospitals trust I’m going to talk about the financial position for the previous Financial year 2023 24 and a little bit about this Current financial year.
The financial highlights of the Year 20242 include that our overall operating costs increased by 5% to 1.8 billion our staff numbers increased by over 390 whole time equivalents including an additional 250 nurse and Healthcare assistance overall a surplus of 12.3 million was delivered which is the seventh consecutive year.
We’ve achieved a surplus and meant that the statutory Break Even Duty was met we finished the year with £48 million cash in the bank and during the year we had a capital program of 99 million representing another year of significant investment in our services this meant that we met the statutory duties relating to capital resource and external financing limits our better payments practice Cod performance was at 97% which means that 97% of valid supplier invoices were paid within 30 days.
This is really important to support our local suppliers and businesses particularly in these challenging Economic Times we made sure that this has been maintained into the current Financial year 2023 24 was a challenging year as we continued to adjust to life after the pandemic and faced increasing demands and extremely high bed occupancy.
The NHS payment system the way we receive our funding changed to place greater emphasis on increasing activity levels and reducing the size of the waiting list there were further challenges brought about by industrial action by nursing and medical staff all of which inevitably impacted Upon Our patient activity.
The high levels of inflation persisted as increased costs caused further Financial pressures to address these challenges we’ve continued to use our Leed’s Improvement method to improve our services and identify and address inefficiencies overall our waste reduction schemes delivered £132 million of benefits in the year which contributed to an overall surplus of 12.3 million being achieved we invested 99 million across our estate medical equipment and it infrastructure.
Lots of examples of innovation were submitted to the National One and’s Finance program for sharing with Finance colleagues across the country our finance team has been re accredited by the future Focus Finance National program at the highest level demonstrating excellence in processes and culture and our procurement team has been accredited as excellent by the health care supplies Association we were extremely pleased that leads won the environmental sustainability award at the hfma conference. In recognition of our efforts to become more sustainable.
Our total income for the year was 1.9 billion we received the majority of our funding from NHS England for our specialist Regional and National Services and from NHS West Yorkshire for services provided to patients from leads and the surrounding areas within West Yorkshire.
As a major teaching Hospital education training and research are also Key activities which we receive funding for this represents 7% of our overall income our total operating costs for the year amounted to nearly 1.9 billion just over 60% of our costs are on salaries and wages with Frontline clinical staff being the main component non-pay expenditure represents 40% of our operating costs with clinical supplies and drugs being the largest items premises and infrastructure costs such as light heat and power account for further 6% of our spending identifying and eliminating waste is a key component in delivering the financial plan and freeing up resources which can then be reinvested in improving our services to patients.
We use the leads Improvement method to support our waste Reduction Program the leads Improvement method allows us to be more efficient with all of our resources and provide an improved experience and better outcomes for our patients waste reduction schemes come in all shapes and sizes with all members of Staff being encouraged to identify wasteful practices and suggest improvements in our processes.
Major trust-wide schemes such as reviews of productivity and the cost base in our services delivered nearly 80 million of savings during the year while the remaining 53 million came from local schemes identified and successfully implemented across the individual clinical service units a key feature of all our waste reduction schemes is that they are all assessed via the trust quality impact.
Assurance process to ensure patient safety is Paramount and quality of service is maintained if not enhanced we have made a really significant level level of capital investment in our services of £99 million and over the past 5 years we’ve invested £500 million in capital expenditure this is made possible by a combination of sound financial management identification and delivery of waste reduction schemes.
Resulting in recurrent sures and increase national funding for Capital schemes some examples of this year’s investment include the new center for laboratory medicine the new Opthalmology department at St James’s the end user computer modernization program across the trust digital pathology a major investment in a variety of carbon reduction schemes as part of our sustainability green plan.
One of our seven commitments for 20242 is to deliver the financial plan the financial environment is very challenging with pressures on funding from inflation industrial action pay award settlements and efficiency targets across the NHS demand and pressures on Services remain very high with requirements to increase elective activity and reduce waiting times against a growing waiting list.
We have a financial plan to deliver a very small Surplus to achieve this plan will require waste reduction schemes of £110 million which is a very challenging ask and we continue to use the lead Improvement method as our main main source of improving services and identifying waste reductions whilst also always being mindful of maintaining and improving the quality of services for patients we will continue to work in partnership with our key Commissioners to deliver quality services to patients and meet the financial plan.
We continue to invest in our services with capital investment game planned at over £ million and the new pathology Regional Center for laboratory medicine will be completed later this year whilst plans on delivering new Adult and Children’s Hospitals on the LGI site are in the best possible position to proceed when the new government completes its review of the new hospitals program
Leeds Hospitals Charity
Leeds Hospitals Charity AGM 2024
Hello my name is Eve Harrick and I’m the Director of Finance and corporate services at Leed’s hospital charity we’re extremely proud to be the partner charity of lead’s teaching hospitals and it’s fantastic to be presenting at the annual general meeting today at Leeds hospitals charity. We’re all about doing good together and today I’m going to tell you a little bit about our last year at the charity and how thanks to our generous donors and support from trust colleagues we’ve been able to work together to support even more patients families and staff at leads teaching hospitals.
I can’t mention the past year without taking a moment to commemorate the life of our Patron Rob burrow who sadly died in June. Rob has been the figurehead for our MND centre appeal at cof and we’re extremely grateful to him all of the burrow family and Kevin Sinfield for the support they’ve given us since the appeal was launched in 2021.
Our thoughts continue to be with Rob’s family and his friends following his death the last Financial year which ran to 31st of March 24 has been one of growth for leads hospitals charity.
Thanks to the generosity of the people of Yorkshire we raised 8.8 million to support our hospitals that’s 11% more than last year through our ground funding program we awarded £ 3.8 million for Innovative projects at leads teaching hospitals so let’s look at those projects in a bit more detail every member of staff at leads teaching hospitals has the opportunity to apply for a charity Grant from us last year.
We said yes to more than 300 NHS staff who applied to us for funding on the p chart behind me you can see where those grants were awarded we spent the majority of our funding 62% on projects that tackle Health inequalities particularly focusing on Paediatric and Cancer Care.
I’m now going to highlight just three of the projects refunded last year and the impact that they made on patients and families that leads teaching hospitals firstly I’d like to talk about a project that started in the emergency department here at St James’ hospital.
We had a request from a quality improvement clinician who wanted to improve the experience of A&E for patients with autism and learning difficulties and the idea of the Care bag was born these Innovative bags are given to patients as they arrive and all of the items inside are designed to calm the patient whilst waiting and provide information and advice about what to expect the project cost £23,000 and has now been replicated by hospitals across the country and won several Awards.
Next I’d like to talk about a really simple project that’s made a huge difference at Leed’s Children’s Hospital I’d like to introduce you to 9-year-old Natalie and her mom adeta after being diagnosed with a rare autoimmune condition in April 2023. Natalie has spent nearly 18 months in hospital and adeta has been by her side the whole time to start with adeta had to sleep upright in a chair or to try and share the bed with her daughter and now thanks to funding from our generous donors 100 32,000 was awarded to provide hundreds of riling chairs for the side of every bed at Le Children’s Hospital.
Allowing parents and carers to get a good night’s sleep finally I want to mention the support we provide to patients and families living with rare conditions our standout appeal this year has been for the Rob Burrow MND centre which I’ll talk about shortly but did you know that we’re also really proud to fund smaller projects for MND patients we invested £6,800 for me eater feeder and straw for the motor neurone Disease Clinic to
allow M andd patients to eat and drink without using their hands which can help a patient feel more independent those are just three examples of things we’ve been proud to fund this year but to read more case studies please do visit our website where you’ll find hundreds more we wouldn’t be able to fund any of these amazing projects without the help of our donors fundraisers and our volunteers last year an incredible 10,000 people donated to us for the very first time nearly 500 new people also signed up to volunteer with us last year.
Our volunteers donated 21,1 162 hours in the year 10,000 more than the year before we are reaching new audiences creating new communities and together we will make an even bigger difference that Community feeling was out in force last year for two major events in the lead’s calendar first the inaugural Rob Burrow marathon held in May last year brought out 12,000 Runners to the streets of leads nearly 1500 of those chose to support leads hospitals charity raising over a million pounds for us in the process.
Following that in the summer of 2023 the leads bear hunt roared into the city bringing 35 giant bears and 48 adorable bear cups into their hiding places just waiting for families to find them the event was a huge success with thousands of families taking part in the trail which culminated in an auction of the Bears raising over £1,000 for Leed’s Children’s Hospital at both of these events generous volunteers gave up their time time to ensure we could raise the maximum amount of money for Leeds Teaching Hospitals.
We are incredibly grateful to all of our volunteers and of course our fundraisers and donors we couldn’t do what we do without you looking ahead to the rest of this year and Beyond we’ve even more exciting plans we believe every single member of NHS staff has an idea of how our hospitals can be even better and that’s why we’ve improved our grants process this year to offer themed funding calls that absolutely anyone and everyone can apply to this is to ensure equal access to charity funding
To deliver greater impact for NHS staff patients and of course families as part of this process we’ll be working more closely with lead teaching hospitals identifying key strategic projects that can benefit multiple areas of the trust for this year. That includes a really exciting project to transform the play team at leads Children’s Hospital from being a 5-day service to a 7-Day service all year round this will vastly improve the hospital experience for thousands of patients and their families and remove inequity between the wards.
We’ll also be looking ahead to the completion of the Rob burrow M&D Centre in the summer 2025 work on the centre began just a day after Rob Burrow’s death and it’s now progressing quickly with the main frame due to be installed later this Autumn the year ahead certainly looks bright for lead’s hospitals charity and we’re excited about the difference that we will make right here at leads teaching hospitals one once again I’d like to say a massive thank you to every single donor fundraiser Lottery player and volunteer you are the proof that we can do good together.