About Us
Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Trust is a major acute Trust serving the people of Wigan and Leigh. Innovative and forward thinking, the Trust dedicated to providing the best possible healthcare for the local population of over 300,000.
The Trust is committed to designing services around the needs of patients and for patients to be cared for as close to their home as possible. Operating across four hospital sites, a state-of-the-art outpatients centre as well as working from offices at Bryan House and Buckingham Row in Wigan town centre, the Trust has over 800 inpatient beds and invests around £190 million each year in a broad range of highly regarded general and specialist acute services.
Our aim is the continuous improvement of services and facilities for patients, staff and visitors.
In order to meet our aims we channel our efforts into five guiding principles. These five principles underpin every aspect of our work both within the Trust and within the community as a whole.
In addition to our guiding principles, our mission statement is clear " Our Patients are at the Heart of Everything we do".
Our Guiding principles
The principles are:
- Provide effective, responsive services of high quality
- Ensure that services are integrated and co-ordinated
- Ensure that the staff feel valued and
- Make the best use of their abilities
- Use our resources efficiently
- Make our services locally accessible as far as possible
