East Cheshire NHS Trust provides a range of hospital and community-based services across East Cheshire and aims to ensure that patients receive the best care in the right place. The Trust employs approximately 2500 staff across its community settings and its three hospital sites: Macclesfield District General Hospital, Congleton War Memorial Hospital and Knutsford and District Community Hospital.
The shared mission of the Trust’s workforce is to work in partnership to provide high-quality, affordable integrated services. The Trust believes its workforce is its greatest asset and it actively supports its staff members to develop their capabilities to the full, with a variety of learning and development opportunities.
In 2020, a £900,000 redevelopment project to improve the Outpatients Department at Macclesfield Hospital was completed, resulting in increased clinical space and an improved, modernised environment. Four new clinic rooms, a bespoke ophthalmology room, a new children’s playroom and three separate waiting rooms were also included in the redesign.
Some of the Trust’s recent achievements include: A Care Quality Commission (CQC) rating of ‘Good’ in 2019; winning the HSJ ‘Patient Safety’ Award in 2018; and a higher-than-average performance in areas such as overall staff engagement, staff motivation, and staff ability to contribute towards improvements at work, according to a recent NHS Staff Survey.