Lund University Hospital is one of eight university hospitals in Sweden, and part of Region Skåne. Health care, research and education are the three most important cornerstones of our mission of improving people’s health. This means that as a university hospital, we have several functions.
We are a local hospital, which offers people effective medical treatment in cooperation with other care providers in the area. As a regional and university hospital we are responsible for providing highly specialised treatment and emergency and trauma treatment for inhabitants of the Skåne region, but also for people from the rest of Sweden and other countries. Our training programmes and research benefit future patients and rely on international collaboration, but are also of great significance for community
development and businesses. Lund University Hospital is a large employer, with approximately 6, 800 full-time employee equivalents. The largest professional groups at the hospital are nurses, doctors, assistant nurses, and biomedical laboratory scientists.
We carry out clinical research in close collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University. Lund University has opened a large biomedical centre, BMC, with a floor area of 43,000 sq. m. within the hospital area, and this ensures that research and development achieve close contact with our care giving activities. Our collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine includes the training of doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, and speech therapists. Just over 2,000 students are educated each year within eight medical specialities, and 700 students take part in postgraduate studies.
The hospital collaborates with other units active in health and medical care in Region Skåne. We are currently coordinating and profiling the university hospitals in Skåne, in collaboration with the University hospital MAS in Malmö, the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University and Malmö University.
Improved public health
The Lund University Hospital became in 1999 a member of the Swedish network “Health Promoting Hospitals”. This national network is part of the WHO international network. The tasks of a health-promoting hospital include:
- contributing to the development of work in public health and
increasing understanding of its importance
- to be a non-smoking environment
- to be a pioneer in the development of a health-promoting workplace
- to provide supporting expertise in issues of public health
Our ten building blocks
- The meeting with the patient is the key moment
- Patient safety is the top priority in our quality efforts
- The patient process is at the heart of our new structure
- Our quality standards are based on the principle of getting it right first time
- The employees are our most important resource
- Communication between managers and staff is our most important management tool
- Our operating philosophy is based on lean production
- Leading positions are based on management skills
- Education and research are our insurance policy for future health needs
- The focus of our efforts stretches from the local area, Region Skåne and southern healthcare region, to the rest of Sweden and sometimes other parts of the world Our ten building blocks