Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Airedale Hospital was opened in 1970 by Prince Charles and is an award winning hospital providing high quality, personalised, acute, elective and specialist care for a population of over 200,000 people from a widespread area covering 700 square miles within Yorkshire and Lancashire - stretching as far as the Yorkshire Dales and the National Park in North Yorkshire, reaching areas of North Bradford and Guiseley in West Yorkshire and extending into Colne and Pendle in the East of Lancashire.They employ 2,900 staff and have 400 committed volunteersIn a year they treat 25,000 inpatients, 26,000 non-elective patients and 150,000 outpatientsOur Accident and Emergency Department sees and treats over 51,000 patients every yearAround 2,600 babies are born each year at the hospitalThey provide services from their main hospital site and at other locations across the community, in sites owned by their Primary Care Trusts. The PCTs commission health services from them for the patients within their GP practices and the three main PCT’s referring patients to us are – NHS Bradford and Airedale, NHS North Yorkshire and York and NHS East Lancashire.