Living and Working in Yorkshire
Bradford
Bradford is an exciting city, offering the challenges of ethnic diversity. The socioeconomic deprivation of the inner city contrasts with pleasant semi-rural areas. Local attractions include the best curries in the world, the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, the Hockney Gallery, the World Heritage Site in Saltaire, cinemas and theatres and easy access to clubbing in Leeds and walking in the Dales (or even both, if you can stand the pace). Housing is affordable here.
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the first wave of Foundation Trusts from 1st April 2004. It provides acute services for the City of Bradford and the surrounding areas. There are two large general hospitals: Bradford Royal Infirmary ([757] beds) and St Luke’s Hospital ( [133] beds); the Maternity Services are centralised at Bradford Royal Infirmary with [199] beds which includes neonatal, giving a Trust total of [1089]. Outpatient facilities are in the Horton Wing at St Luke’s Hospital and Outpatients West at Bradford Royal Infirmary.
Bradford has a very strong reputation for high quality teaching and this led to the University of Leeds Medical School expansion into Bradford. As a consequence the number of undergraduate medical students has risen dramatically and there are a number of innovative teaching programmes developing. A recently unified Department of Medical Education, based in the Fieldhouse Teaching Centre, supports both Undergraduate and Postgraduate activities. A substantial new building on the Bradford Royal Infirmary site has recently been completed to facilitate the transfer of all acute services to the one site. It is anticipated that outpatient services and some rehabilitation type inpatient beds will be based on the St Luke’s site.
All main specialties are represented in Bradford except Neurosurgery, Cardiac Surgery and Renal Transplantation, which are provided on a regional basis by other Trusts.