Barts Health
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in England and is one of the UK’s leading healthcare providers with the biggest number of A&E patients in the country.
The Trust, which is arranged and organised as a group of hospitals, has more than 20,000 staff and covers four major sites (The Royal London Hospital, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Whipps Cross Hospital and Newham Hospital) and a number of community locations, including Mile End Hospital.
As well as district general hospital facilities for three London boroughs (Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest and Newham), the Trust has the largest cardiovascular centre in the UK, the second largest cancer centre in London, an internationally-renowned trauma team, and is the home of the London Air Ambulance. The Royal London also houses one of the largest children’s hospitals in the UK, a major dental hospital, and leading stroke and renal units.
The Trust has a vision to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing equitable, safe and compassionate care to their patients in east London and beyond. It is now striving towards becoming an outstanding group of hospitals.
The Royal London Hospital
The Royal London in Whitechapel is a major teaching hospital providing local and specialist services in state-of-the-art facilities.
St. Bartholomews Hospital
St Bartholomew’s in the City is a regional and national centre of excellence for cardiac and cancer care.
Whipps Cross Hospital
Whipps Cross in Leytonstone is a large general hospital with a range of local services, with a strategic focus on high quality frailty services. The hospital has been endorsed as a pathfinder scheme for its major redevelopment programme.
Newham Hospital
Newham in Plaistow is a busy district hospital with innovative facilities such as its orthopaedic centre.
Mile End Hospital
Mile End Hospital is a shared facility in Mile End for a range of inpatient, rehabilitation, mental health and community services, playing an increasingly key role through its early diagnostic centre.
Our vision and values
Barts Health’s WeCare values shape everything that we do, every single day.They are visible in every interaction we have with each other, our patients, their families and our partners.
WeCare about everything from the appointment letters our patients receive, to the state of our facilities when they walk through the door, to the care and compassion they receive when they are discharged.
We have come a long way on our journey to delivering safe and compassionate care. By embracing these values as the way we behave, we will achieve our ambition for excellence.
Our vision is to be a high performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond.
Welcoming
Engaging
Collaborative
Accountable
Respectful
Equitable
Our Board
Our board is made up of executive directors and non-executive directors.
The role of our Board
- To set the strategic direction of the Trust within the overall policies and priorities of the Government and the NHS, define the Trust’s annual and longer term objectives and agree plans to achieve them
- To oversee the delivery of planned results by monitoring performance against objectives and ensuring corrective action is taken where necessary
- To ensure effective financial supervision through value for money, financial control and financial planning and strategy
- To ensure those high standards of corporate governance and personal behaviour are maintained in the conduct of the business of the Trust
- To ensure that satisfactory procedures exist to appoint, appraise and remunerate senior executives
- To ensure that there is effective dialogue between the Trust and the local community on its plans and performance and that these are responsive to the community’s needs.
Our board committees include: the nomination and remuneration committee, audit and risk committee, quality assurance committee and finance, investment and performance committee.
