We’ve published our Annual Report for 2020/21, reflecting on a year like no other as we tackled the Covid-19 pandemic.

In his introduction, Chief Executive Tony Chambers, said: “There are many examples of how we have responded innovatively to an ever-changing situation – including developing unique multi-disciplinary training for redeployed staff; increasing our critical care capacity five-fold; and implementing an oxygen receiving unit.

“Throughout, teamwork has underpinned these successes, with traditional boundaries and ways of working transcended as we focused on keeping our patients and staff safe. Whilst we can never overestimate the scale of the tragedy and the toll is has taken on our staff, there are a multitude of positive learnings to carry forward. Our hospitals have been transformed and in the words of our staff, there is ‘no going back’.”

Each year, our Annual Report reflects on the previous 12 months in our Year in Pictures and on this occasion, it has become a visual reminder of how our Trust was impacted by Covid-19. We looked back on patients who spent months in our hospitals, before being well enough to go home to their families, including Steve Attfield (pictured above with wife Gemma) and Anil Patel; how our team made bride-to-be Leigh feel special at work on what should have been her wedding day, when it was postponed by the pandemic; the realities of what our intensive care staff faced during one on the peaks; and the opening of our first vaccine hub.

In our Annual Report you can also find out more about our performance, objectives, work with our partners and our annual accounts. You can find the report on our website.