"Working together to provide image of hospital excellent health care for the local community and beyond."

The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest general hospital trusts in the country.

We provide acute medical and surgical services to Reading, Wokingham and West Berkshire and specialist services to a wider population across Berkshire and its borders.

The Trust's strategic objectives:

• Developing more services, closer to home: providing services in more places for more people
• Investing in success: keeping our services in the top 10% nationally
• Sharing and listening: making sure that people know what we do, and why we are the best
• Working together: bringing together key providers to form a modern healthcare system
• Exceeding expectations: exceeding customers and patients' expectations

We have:

• over 4,800 staff 
• 607 acute, 44 paediatrics and 57 maternity post natal beds 
• 204 day beds and spaces
• an annual budget of £290 million, without  PFI arrangements

All in a day's work:

• 16 babies born
• 106 emergency admissions
• 208 patients seen in A&E
• 65 operations carried out
• 790 radiology procedures
• 2,500 meals cooked
• £7,000 spent on repairs and maintenance