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About

About our Trust

We are an acute and community provider delivering a comprehensive range of acute hospital and specialist healthcare services for approximately 800,000 people living in and around York, North Yorkshire, North East Yorkshire and Ryedale - an area covering 3,400 square miles.

Our annual turnover is approaching £1b.  We manage eight hospital sites and have a workforce of around 10,000 staff working across our hospitals and in the community.

We are a NHS Foundation Trust, accountable to an elected and appointed Council of Governors.

Our hospitals

In 2023/24, we saw the following activity:

  • 115,414 A&E attendances
  • 100,613 attendances in Urgent Care Centres on our sites
  • 779,908 outpatient attendances (also including telephone and video appointments)
  • 160,808 inpatients (adults, including maternity)
  • 9,921 inpatients (children)
  • 121,700 operations or procedures as an inpatient
  • 3,916 babies delivered

A teaching hospital

We are proud to be a partner with the Hull York Medical School (HYMS) to provide clinical placements and training for future doctors at Scarborough and York hospitals.  To find out more about HYMS and our role as a teaching hospital view the HYMS page or visit the HYMS website.

Our values

Kindness

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Openness

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Excellence

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Our Hospitals

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Update for visitors

Visiting restrictions are in place at our hospitals to stop the spread of norovirus. These restrictions will be in place until further notice.

The following wards are closed to visitors:

There are four exceptions only to the restrictions. These are:

We understand these restrictions can be difficult when a loved one is unwell. The restrictions will be reviewed daily and lifted as soon as it is safe. Thank you for your understanding as we try to reduce the spread of norovirus in our hospitals.