Our services at Pinderfields
The Pinderfields Hospital building was opened in 2011 and is the largest of the Trust’s three hospitals.
Our services at Pinderfields
Opened in 2011, Pinderfields Hospital remains the largest of the Trust’s three hospitals and is the main site for patients needing acute (hospital) care. It provides a wide range of inpatient, outpatient, diagnostic and maternity services, as well as both urgent and emergency care.
Planned care, such as surgery, also takes place here, supporting thousands of patients each year.
As the busiest hospital within the Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust, Pinderfields continues to see rising demand. Each year, the Emergency Department receives more than 127,000 attendances, with over 58,000 patients requiring emergency care. Outpatient activity is also significant, with more than 250,000 appointments delivered annually across a broad range of specialties.
The hospital’s Critical Care Unit provides specialist support to the most seriously unwell patients. Staffed by highly trained critical care nurses and doctors, the unit is recognised with a CQC rating of 'Outstanding' for the compassionate care provided to patients and their families.
Pinderfields is also home to a dedicated 24/7 children’s Emergency Department and Children’s Assessment Unit. Staffed by paediatric doctors, nurses, and play specialists, these services are designed around the needs of young patients and their families. The focus is always on safe, family-centred care, avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions wherever possible and making any hospital visit as positive as it can be.
In recent years, we have transformed how we deliver services for patients referred with a possible cancer diagnosis. Innovations such as a one-stop urology service mean most patients can receive tests and results in a single visit, reducing anxiety and unnecessary delays. We also run joint cancer clinics, enabling patients to see a specialist and an oncologist on the same day. In addition, the Macmillan Information Pod at Pinderfields offers practical advice, emotional support, and guidance for anyone affected by cancer.
The hospital is also home to the Eye Centre, a hub for ophthalmology services providing specialist care for patients with eye conditions across the region. Find out more below:
The Eye Centre
The Eye Centre, a £5 million purpose-built building designed with the help of patients and staff as part of the reconfiguration of our hospital services, is one of the busiest ophthalmology departments in the region. The introduction of rapid access clinics, seeing 40 acute patients per day, means we are getting our patients to the most appropriate staff and providing treatment much more quickly.
Technological innovation
Mid Yorkshire is also embracing technological innovation in order to improve our services. By offering an e-consultation service in over 14 specialties, we have prevented approximately 4000 people having to attend outpatient appointments. We also run a virtual fracture clinic, answering questions and giving reassurance to patients who then don’t have to make the journey to the hospital site.
In April 2019, Pinderfields Hospital took delivery of a brand new, state of the art, da Vinci X Robot, which will allow our surgical teams to further expand their capacity to provide keyhole specialist surgery for complex, life-threatening conditions and to perform more complex procedures with a few small incisions, leading to reduced blood loss and infection, faster recovery times and a reduced length of stay in hospital.
Adults and Paediatrics Burn Service
Pinderfields Hospital is home to the region’s specialist burns service. The unit treats patients with burn injuries and skin loss conditions of all levels of complexity from all over Yorkshire, Humberside and North Lincolnshire, serving a population of 5 million, as well as taking patients from other regions and sometimes overseas.
Our dedicated team includes surgeons, intensivists, anaesthetists, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, psychologists and other staff, all of whom who are passionate about delivering high quality burns care. We treat acute burn injuries, complex skin loss conditions in adult and children, and long-term scar problems including patients with complex and specialist reconstructive needs. We are one of the few centres in the North of England who practice enzymatic burns debridement, leading the way nationally in treating critically ill and major burns in this manner, and we carry out a range of reconstructive activity, including tissue expanders for post burn hair loss and specialist burned breast reconstruction.
We are the only burn centre in Yorkshire and the Humber providing burns surgical training and our team of specialised burns intensivists provide training to anaesthetists and intensive care doctors from across the Yorkshire region. We also conduct burn courses for GPs. Our expertise has been drawn on to develop national guidelines on burns and our teams routinely present at national and international events. The service has close links with Huddersfield University, with whom we are collaborating on research projects.
The Mid Yorkshire Burns Club, set up to provide support for young people with burns, was awarded the Duke of York’s community initiative in 2018 and our paediatric burns play specialist was awarded a British Empire Medal for her services to children with severe burns in Yorkshire.
Yorkshire Regional Spinal Injuries Centre
Our Regional Spinal Injuries Centre at Pinderfields is one of only 11 specialist spinal injuries centres within the UK. Serving a population of approximately 7 million across the Yorkshire and Humber region, the unit provides inpatient care for those with a spinal cord injury or non-progressive spinal cord disease, as well as providing life-long support to patients via an established outpatient and outreach service.
The state of the art, purpose-built unit has dedicated rehabilitation and therapy facilities, including a fully equipped gym, one of the best hydrotherapy pools in the region, conditioning suite, occupational therapy assessment, treatment and education areas.
Our dedicated multidisciplinary team consists of nurses, consultants (spinal rehabilitation and urology), medical staff, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychology, outreach and liaison. The team works closely with patients and their families or carers to undertake rehabilitation following a goal-oriented process. The unit is supported by well-established charities including SPINE, SURF, SIA, Aspire and Backup, who provide physical, social, educational and psychological support to our patients and families.