Isle of Wight NHS Trust
Isle of Wight NHS Trust is an acute and ambulance health care provider.
Welcome from Penny Emerit, Chief Executive Officer, Portsmouth Hospitals Univeristy and the Isle of Wight NHS Trusts
We are proud of the services that we provide and our talented and motivated staff work hard to deliver the best possible care and outcomes for our population. In 2021, we were awarded an overall rating of ‘good’ by the CQC. St Mary’s Hospital is the location from which the Trust provides a range of acute and secondary care services. Our St Mary’s site includes an emergency department with over 76,000 attendances and 13,300 emergency admissions a year.
Our emergency medicine and surgery services include 6 intensive care beds. We have a comprehensive maternity department, paediatrics services and a special care baby unit (SCBU). As a Trust we also deliver planned care services including elective and day surgery, outpatient clinics and diagnostic services. IWT also provides the island’s ambulance service, with support from South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS). The service responds to over 32,500 999 emergency calls and in excess of 82,700 111 calls each year.
Delivering both acute and ambulance services enables the Trust to provide more seamless urgent and emergency care. We have a single executive team with PHU as part of our Group model and share a vision of ‘working together to deliver excellence in care for our patients and communities’. We recognise that we are unable to achieve sustainable services by ourselves. As a Group with PHU, we will be able to deliver safe, effective and cost-efficient services for our population long into the future. Our island health and care partnerships are important to us. Together we are committed to planning and delivering sustainable health and care services for our island population.
We are an ambitious Trust that looks to innovation to enhance our services; we are prepared to stretch the boundaries into what has not been delivered before. As an anchor institution, our top priority is the health and wellbeing of our island community. We know that the next 5 years are about us doing things differently.
Trust Strategy
We have seen significant changes and challenges since we developed our last Trust Strategy. This year we launched a new 5-year strategy called ‘Working Together, Improving Together’.
In 2023, we strengthened our partnership with Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, operating as a Group with a new single executive team and working as Boards in common. In May 2024, our community, mental health, and learning disability services transferred to Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. Isle of Wight NHS Trust became an acute and ambulance organisation, working in partnership to serve our community.
Throughout the period of change, our people have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to delivering excellent care to our island population. Our people, our partners, and our communities have informed our strategy. We have listened to what matters most to them. This input has not only affirmed the significance of our partners in our future, but also encouraged us to explore new and innovative ways of working to guarantee sustainable services for our island community.
Our Working Together, Improving Together strategy sets out our objectives for the next 5 years, setting the framework for our collaboration to deliver our vision of working together to deliver excellence in care for our patients and communities.