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About Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust

The Trust is one of the UK's most successful and largest healthcare organisations and provides local hospital services to over 500,000 people living in Southampton and South West Hampshire, employment to over 7,000 people and spends in excess of £400 million on seeing one million patients each year. 

In addition, we also supply specialist services including neurosciences, cardiac services and children's intensive care provision to more than 3 million people in central southern England and the Channel Islands.

As well as delivering some of the highest quality clinical outcomes in the UK the Trust is also a major centre for teaching and research in association with the University of Southampton and partners including the Medical Research Council, Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research UK.

Having operating in a difficult financial environment two years ago the Trust is now in a sound financial position, having delivered a surplus of £2m in 2006/07 and £18m in 2007/08. The Trust has made savings of over £70m over the past 3 years , equating to a saving of £1 in every eight pound spent.  

The Trust continues its commitment to improving efficiency and will deliver a further £17 million of cost improvements in 2008/09. A surplus of £13m is planned in 2008/09, enabling reinvestments into the estate and clinical quality.

SUHT has recently been approved to enter the application process to become a Foundation Trust. The self-governing status that this brings will be a key enabler as the Trust implements its “2020 Vision” of becoming a national and international centre of excellence.