Hinchingbrooke Hospital

Name :

Hinchingbrooke Hospital

Address  :

Hinchingbrooke Park

Town  :

Huntingdon

State  :

Cambridgeshire

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

PE29 6NT

Phone  :

01480 416 416

Fax  :

01480 416 561

Web URL  :

Available

Email  :

info@hinchingbrooke.nhs.uk

Description

About Hinchingbrooke
Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust provides health care for the people of Huntingdonshire and surrounding areas More than 161000 people rely on the hospital for a range of services We are renowned locally for our warm and friendly approach to health care In the Care Quality Commissions Annual Health Check in 2009 the Trust was assessed as good for clinical services and fair for financial management Our annual income is around pound87 million

The hospital is a modern purposebuilt building opened in 1983 although some departments had moved here from the Huntingdon County Hospital several years before We provide a wide range of specialties many in conjunction with Addenbrookes and Peterborough hospitals

The hospital has 254 beds including 24 specifically for day cases alongside 23 cabins located in the Treatment Centre the pound22million unit which opened in November 2005 There are also an additional 9 beds in Critical Care The hospital has a pound12million Medical Assessment Unit There are also facilities for private patients which contributes to the hospitals income

A growing number of joint appointments are being made with Addenbrookes Hospital and an increasing number of referrals are now coming from family doctors in areas which traditionally have referred to Addenbrookes The main purchaser of the Trusts services is Cambridgeshire Primary Care Trust PCT 96 with the remaining 4 coming from a range of PCTs across Peterborough Bedfordshire Northamptonshire Norfolk Lincolnshire and Suffolk

History

Hinchingbrooke Hospital is the local hospital for 161000 people in the Huntingdonshire area providing care and treatment for inpatients outpatient and day cases

The hospital was originally at the County Hospital on Brampton Road in Huntingdon When the need was identified for a much larger hospital work began on the current site in the late 1970s The hospital was completed in 1983 and opened by the Duchess of Gloucester

The Woodlands Centre a later addition paid for by fundraising by the hospital and Macmillan offers care support and outpatient treatment for cancer patients and others with a terminal illness

In December 2001 the hospital opened a new 20 bed medical assessment unit which has reduced demand on both accident and emergency and the other wards

Further refurbishments have taken place in outpatients with the first phase paid for with a grant of pound750000 from the Department of Health in recognition of the advances made in modernising our dermatology service

The new pound22 million Huntingdon Treatment Centre was officially opened by HRH the Princess Royal in November 2005

Our new pound65 million emergency care centre was fully operational from January 2007 It provides a state of the art environment for our high performing Accident and Emergency service and out of hours GP social and emergency mental health services