Facts and Figures

The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital has:

• 1010 acute beds 
  • 292 of which are side rooms and of these 243 have en-suite facilities
• 27 operating theatres
• 27 wards
• 2,820 car park spaces
• 1 helipad
• 65 staff changing rooms
• 1,640 windows
• 3,500 rooms
• 4,800 doors
• 40 miles of water pipes
• 1,200 km of electric wiring
• 1.8 million bricks
• 20 lifts
• 13,320 light fittings
• 5 miles of shelving
• 1,400 metre perimeter footpath
• 1,200km of electrical cabling
• 15,962 signs
• 16,000 trees
• 50,000 shrubs
• 745 toilets
• 82 CCTV cameras
• 44 payphones
• 2 post boxes
• 1 Restaurant
• 3 Cafes
• 1 WRVS shops
• 1 convenience store
• 1 Women's clothes shop 
• 2 cash machines
• 1 outdoor children's playground

Trust Staff

Staff by gender

• Female - 80.3 per cent
• Male - 19.4 per cent

Staff by age

• Under 19 - 0.2 per cent
• 19-25 -  8.8 per cent
• 26-35 - 26.9 per cent
• 36-45 - 29.1 per cent
• 46-50 - 13.2 per cent
• 51-55 - 10.6 per cent
• 56-60 - 8.5 per cent
• 61-65 - 2.3 per cent
• Over 65 - 0.4 per cent 

Staff by ethnic group

• White British - 78.9 per cent
• Other ethnic groups - 8.2 per cent
• Undeclared - 8 per cent
• White other - 2.8 per cent
• Asian other - 1.5 per cent
• Black African - 0.4 per cent
• Black Caribbean - 0.2 per cent

Staff diversity 

• Members of our staff come from a total of 72 different countries, from Australia to Zimbabwe, and all points between.

 Staff numbers (in post at 31st March 2011, by head count)

• Nursing & Midwifery (Registered) 2,090
• Admin & Clerical  1,506
• Clinical Support  1,051
• Medical and Dental 858
• Scientific, Therapeutic and Technical 878
• Estates and Ancillary 143
• Total 6,526

Last year (2012-13) the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust treated: 

• Inpatients – 80,844
• Day cases – 75,125
• Outpatients – 567,777
• A&E patients (NNUH & Cromer MIU) -101,256
• Total 825,002

Last year (2012-13) Cromer and District Hospital treated:

• 36,070 - Out-patients
• 10,272 - Minor injuries patients
• 4,594 - Day case patients
• Total 51,380

The Trust's finances (2010-11)

• Our turnover for the year was £427 million
• Our management costs were 3.2% of turnover
• Our surplus for the year was £4.8 million
• Our funding mainly comes from Primary Care Trusts = 83% of income
• Our biggest area of spending is staff wages and costs = 60% of expenditure

Every day our hospitals treat

• Day patients                                187
• Emergency patients                   219
• Routine patients                          74
• Out-patients                                 1,459
• A&E patients                                220
• Babies born                                 14

A day in the life of our hospitals (based on averages):

• 2,250 meals and 5,250 drinks are served to patients
• Our switchboard handles 2,571 phone calls
• Sterile Services cleans up to 26,000 surgical instruments
• Our Postal team sends out and receives 35,7000 letters
• Our Information Technology team handles 26,000 e-mails
• We use 49 pints of blood in our operating theatres
• 85 patients are taken by ambulance to A&E
• We operate on 153 people
• We have 2,800 visitors to our hospitals
• 210 buses come to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
• 1,555 patients' medical records are requested by our staff
• We take 624 x-rays
• We undertake 26,000 pathology tests
• We get through 754 pints of milk
• We take 250 ultrasound scans
• We get through 100 kilos of chips
• We serve 4,000 meals in our restaurant
• We dispense 3,000 pharmacy items
• Our porters move 360 patients around our hospitals
• 600 people receive physiotherapy