Organisation: South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust

Description:

The South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust was established on 1 April 2007 and is one of five Trusts in total within Northern Ireland. The Trust is an integrated organisation, incorporating acute hospital services, community health and social services and serves a population of approx 440,000 people.

The Trust covers the local government districts of Ards, North Down, Down and Lisburn. The main hospital bases are: Ards Community Hospital, Bangor Community Hospital, Downe Hospital, Downshire Hospital, Lagan Valley Hospital and the Ulster Hospital. Community bases are located in many local towns and villages from Moira in the west to Portaferry in the east and from Bangor in the north to Newcastle in the south. In addition to its geographical spread, there is also a noticeable diversity in its population characteristics, embracing areas of relative wealth and prosperity as well as pockets of considerable deprivation and need.

The Trust employs in the region of 9,400 staff across a range of disciplines as follows: admin and clerical, maintenance, ancillary and general, nurses and midwives, social work, professional and technical, medical and dental. The Trust is split into a number of Directorates as follows:

Contact name: John Simpson / Kieran Drayne

Address:

Top Floor
Thompson House Hospital
19/21 Magheralave Road
Lisburn

Postcode: BT28 3BP

Tel: (028) 9266 9111

Fax:

Email:

john.simpson@setrust.hscni.net / kieran.drayne@setrust.hscni.net

Website: http://www.setrust.hscni.net/index.html

Sector (statutory, voluntary, community, other): Statutory

Area of interest/expertise:

Corporate and service planning, reform/modernisation, working across sectors and organisations, personal and public involvement

Mission statement:

The South Eastern Trust provides an extensive range of quality health and social care services to the population of our catchment area and others who avail of our services. These services are designed to meet the individual needs of patients, clients and carers and will be delivered by competent and motivated staff working in partnership with others. A key consideration in the delivery is value for money. The quality of services will be of a standard that each of us would wish for our families and ourselves.