About Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

The Trust is situated in the geographical area of Kingston upon Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire. It employs approximately 9,000 staff, has an annual turnover of £886 million (2023/2024) and operates from two main sites – Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital – whilst delivering a number of outpatient services from locations across the local health economy area.

The Trust’s secondary care service portfolio is comprehensive, covering the major medical and surgical specialties, routine and specialist diagnostic services and other clinical support services. These services are provided primarily to a catchment population of approximately 600,000 in the Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire area.

HUTH provides specialist and tertiary services to a catchment population of between 1.05 million and 1.25 million extending from Scarborough in North Yorkshire to Grimsby and Scunthorpe in North East and North Lincolnshire, respectively. The only major services not provided locally are transplant surgery, major burns and some specialist paediatric services.
It is designated as a Cancer Centre, Cardiac Centre, Vascular Centre and a Major Trauma Centre. HUTH is a university teaching hospital and working with the Hull York Medical School, we are a UK leader in research and innovation.

In 2024/25 we provided the following services:

• Critical Care – and also includes Patient Services
• We assessed 110,000 people who attended our Emergency Department at Hull Royal Infirmary, this is a reduction of nearly 20,000 attendances from the previous year, largely based on the opening of the co-located Urgent Treatment Centre. There were 56,000 attendances assessed in the Urgent Treatment Centre.
• We had over 900,000 attendances at our outpatient clinics
• We admitted over 170,000 patients to our wards.