The Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and Broadgreen Hospital is now part of Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust along with Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
A brand new Royal Liverpool University Hospital, with the all single bedroom facility is due to open in 2020.
Delivery of patient focused, service led care to the people of Liverpool and North West England is achieved by close working with health and social care partners and by involving patients and staff in research projects, future plans and everyday operational issues.
The Trust is one of the top 20 teaching trusts in the country with well established links to both the University of Liverpool and John Moores University.
Each year it provides a large number of placements for student doctors, dentists, nurses and allied health professionals who benefit from the expertise and experience of skilled clinicians.
The Trust provides a comprehensive range of specialist services to 750,000 people each year within a total catchment population of more than two million people in Merseyside, Cheshire, North Wales, the Isle of Man and beyond.
The Trust is one of the largest and busiest in the North of England seeing almost one million patients every year.
In the past year, it provided emergency and urgent care for over 245,000 people, over 92,000 of whom were in the emergency department. The Trust also cared for over 114,000 day case and inpatients and provided over 600,000 outpatient appointments.
The Trust is a major centre for the diagnosis, treatment, care and research of cancer providing a range of cancer services from the renowned Linda McCartney Centre. It is a regional cancer centre for pancreatic, urological, ocular, testicular, anal, and oesophago-gastric cancers, specialist palliative care, specialist radiology and specialist pathology and chemotherapy cancer treatment services. It is also a national centre for ocular oncology (eye cancer). There are excellent local cancer treatment services, including skin, breast and colorectal, head, neck and thyroid and lung cancer.
The Liverpool University Dental Hospital supports dental teaching and provides specialist dental services and emergency care for the local community.
As one of the largest employers in the city, the Trust employs around 7,600 people and also provide services through outsourcing arrangements. The annual budget is over £530 million.
