Altnagelvin Area Hospital

Everyone working for the Western Health and Social Care Trust has a legal duty to keep information about you confidential, as does anyone who receives information about you from the Trust. We will process your personal information in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

We ask you for information about you so that we can give you proper care and treatment and plan services for you. We keep this information in your notes and on our systems because it may be needed if we see you again.

Other reasons for which your information may be needed include:

• Helping to review the care given to you to ensure it is of the highest standard. This is done through internal audits of our standards or external inspections of our services
• Training and educating staff
• Looking after the health and social welfare of the general public
• Investigating complaints or legal claims.
• Preparing statistics on the Trust’s activity and performance

Where we live and our population

• Population size: 300,000Map of Health and Social Care Trusts in Northern Ireland
• Area: 4,842Km2 /Rurality
• Annual Budget – approximately £680 million
• Approximately 12,000 staff
• Life expectancy at birth (WHSCT): – male 78.3 years / female 82 years
• Healthy life expectancy (NI figures only): – male 59.1 years (most deprived areas 50.6 years) / female 60.9 years (most deprived areas 52.7 years)

Our changing population needs

• Our older population is growing with a 27% increase predicted in those aged 65-84 years and a 39% increase in the 85+ age groups by 2028.
• In contrast, the under 16 population is decreasing but there are increasing numbers of looked after children
• 1 in 4 people live in poverty
• 5 of the top 10 most deprived areas are in the Western Trust
• 10 of the top 20 areas with poorest access to services are in Fermanagh and Omagh
• 60.5% of hospital admissions in the Western Trust are in the level 1 and 2 deprivation categories, ie. most deprived, the highest proportion in Northern Ireland