North Middlesex University Hospital

The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute trust with around 515 beds, serving approximately 590,000 people living in Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest. In the 2015 Indices of Multiple Deprivation, both Enfield and Haringey were ranked in the most deprived quintile.

The trust had an annual revenue of around £250 million, and reported a deficit of £8 million, at the time of the inspection. The trust employs 2,458 staff. The trust provides a full range of adult, older people’s and children’s services across medical and surgical disciplines.

In 2015/16 the trust reported activity figures of 56,880 inpatient admissions, 348, 276 outpatient attendances and 171,840 admissions through the Accident and Emergency department.

We inspected all eight core acute services including: Urgent and Emergency Care, Medicine (including older people’s care, Surgery, Critical Care, Maternity and Gynaecology, Services for children, End of life and Outpatients and diagnostic services.