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The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust serves a population of 258,000 & provides healthcare services to the communities of Harlow and the surrounding areas. It runs Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex, England. It is a 501 bedded District General Hospital providing a comprehensive range of acute and specialist services to a local population of 258,000 people. It has a hospital radio station, Harlow Hospital Radio.
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In addition to Princess Alexandra Hospital, the trust provides services from St. Margaret's Hospital, Saffron Walden Community Hospital, Herts & Essex Hospital, Bishops Stortford, Tower Centre Clinic, Hoddesdon, Ongar War Memorial Hospital, Sydenham House (Brian Roycroft Unit & Marjory Warren Unit).
Performance
The Trust predicts a deficit of £16.6m in 2013-14. It abandoned plans to become a Foundation Trust in April 2015 and plans to become an integrated care organisation, investigating both “horizontal” and “vertical” integration with other health bodies.
The trust was one of 26 responsible for half of the national growth in patients waiting more than four hours in accident and emergency over the 2014/5 winter. There were 2% fewer attendances in 2014-15 than in 2013-14, but the number of patients breaching the four-hour target more than double to 12,000.
In October 2015 the trust announced that it was closing 4 beds on each ward, and was unable to see, treat, admit or discharge even 90% of patients within the accident and emergency four-hour target. The Chair of the trust said it was ‘becoming unviable clinically". It expects a deficit of £28.6m in 2015/6. In the last quarter of 2015 it had one of the worst performances of any hospital in England against the four hour waiting target.
Services
Pharmacy department
The Princess Alexandra Hospital houses a pharmacy service for inpatients and oupatients of the hospital but also to external sites including, Herts & Essex Hospital in Bishops Stortford, St Margarets Hospital in Epping, Ongar War Memorial Hospital, Saffron Walden Community Hospital and Sydenham House in Harlow amongst other small clinics and surgeries.
The pharmacy comprises a Dispensary, Technical Services Unit and a Medicines Information Service for staff, inpatients, outpatients and the general public.
The Dispensary houses an automated dispensing system known as 'the robot', which has assisted in the efficient running of the department which has enabled the department to offer a ward-based pharmacy service.