DEWSBURY & DISTRICT HOSPITAL
- HALIFAX ROAD, STAINCLIFFE
WF13 4HS DEWSBURY, WEST YORKSHIRE
Phone: 0844 8118110
www.midyorks.nhs.uk
Short profile:
Mid Yorkshire provides community, acute (hospital-based treatment) and specialist health services to around half a million people living in the Wakefield and North Kirklees areas. We also treat patients from surrounding areas, including South Leeds, North Yorkshire, Barnsley and Doncaster.
Since it was established in April 2002, the Trust has provided mainly hospital services. In 2010, the Trust also started providing community therapy services and intermediate care services (services that help prevent unnecessary admission to hospital or help to speed up early discharge from hospital).
Detailed description:
In April 2011, the Trust expanded to provide community health services for the Wakefield District, including Adult Community Nursing, Children’s Health Services, Podiatry care, Epilepsy Care and many others.
The Trust completed a major hospital development programme in March 2011, which involved opening new, state-of-the-art hospitals in Wakefield (Pinderfields) and Pontefract. Alongside the excellent modern hospital in Dewsbury, these fantastic new buildings are helping to transform local patient care.
The Trust has an annual income of £470million and employs more than 7, 400 staff. The vast majority of our income comes from our local Primary care Trusts, NHS Wakefield District and NHS Kirklees, which are part of the Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield Cluster Partnership.
Our Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for anyone seeking healthcare for an urgent problem related to an accident or illness.
Our aim is to see all patients within four hours of arriving at A&E. As you would expect, priority is given to those with more serious and urgent conditions, who are always seen before people whose condition is less serious, or longer-standing.
You can help yourself, and others, by always making sure you are using emergency services appropriately.
Generally it is appropriate for you to come to A&E if you have suffered an injury which cannot be managed at home, or are experiencing an acute illness which again cannot be managed with simple home treatment.
It is not usually appropriate to come to an emergency department to seek a 'second opinion' about a condition about which you have already seen another doctor. Emergency departments should also not be used in place of general practitioners outside of routine surgery hours.
All general practices are obliged to provide an 'out of hours' service to their patients.
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