Airedale NHS Trust is an award winning hospital - last year named Small Hospital of the Year by the Dr Foster Good Hospital Guide - providing acute and specialist care to a population of 200,000, covering areas of West and North Yorkshire and East Lancashire.

Adam Cairns Chief Executive of Airedale NHS Trust:

"We are proud to be the founder partner and prime training facility of the Lean Healthcare Academy, the first of its kind in this region.

We agree that the Lean Healthcare Academy provides a real opportunity for those working within the NHS to gain a thorough understanding of Lean and how its prinicples can be applied within the public sector to achieve significant service delivery and productivity improvements by ensuring all our processes are effective and efficient as possible.

By applying these principles and sharing our ideas and new learning this will help ensure our patients are getting the best possible care in the right place, every time."

Adam Cairns

Airedale NHS Trust Vision and Values

Our vision for the future is that we become a truly world class, local health care provider, recognised by everyone as being a superb organisation to belong to, one that works flexibly and in full partnership to ensure the best deal for patients, leading and innovating on new ways of delivery, confident about its role and in command of its future.

For us, world class means:

• World class outcomes, so we are internationally recognized for the quality of what we do
• Being efficiently and effectively run, so we can generate surpluses that we need to reinvest
• Have a fully involved workforce, so everyone can contribute their very best to success
• Being the local health care provider of choice, so the public trust us to meet their needs

Our mission as a Trust is:

To raise quality, while reducing costs, in order to generate surpluses for reinvestment.

To be achieved with a focus on:

• The outcomes of care and treatment (Outcomes Focus)
• The way we organize care and treatment (Process Focus)
• The learning and development staff need (Learning & People Focus)
• The things that will make patients choose a hospital (Choice Focus)

Contact Details

Airedale NHS Trust
Airedale General Hospital
Skipton Road
Steeton
Keighley
West Yorkshire
BD20 6TD

Main telephone: 01535 652511
Trust Headquarters telephone: 01535 294803
Email: adam.cairns@anhst.nhs.uk
Website: http://www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk/