Bedford Hospital NHS Trust
| Bedford Hospital | |
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| Bedford Hospital NHS Trust | |
Bedford Hospital's Britannia Road entrance
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| Geography | |
| Location | Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 52°07′44″N 0°28′18″W / 52.128857°N 0.471743°WCoordinates: 52°07′44″N 0°28′18″W / 52.128857°N 0.471743°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public NHS |
| Funding | Public hospital |
| Hospital type | General |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes Accident & Emergency |
| History | |
| Founded | 1897 (1803) |
| Closed | 2186 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
This article relates to Bedford Hospital in England. For Bedford Hospital in South Africa, please see Bedford Provincial Hospital (Eastern Cape).
Bedford Hospital NHS Trust is a 400-bed district general hospital located in the English town of Bedford, serving north and mid Bedfordshire.
The hospital provides services to 270,000 people living in north and mid Bedfordshire. It was one of the top 40 hospitals in the UK, as recognised by CHKS Ltd, from 2003 to 2013. Only six other hospitals have been named in the top 40 for each of these years.
In 2012 the hospital performed 37,245 operations, and had 279,188 outpatient attendances by 68,168 patients.
In December 2013 it was announced that Monitor was reviewing of health services in Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes in an attempt to avert "significant problems ahead" in the local hospitals.
Circle Health was awarded a prime provider contract for Bedfordshire's Musculoskeletal service in April 2014 by the Clinical Commissioning Group and it was intended that the Trust would be a subcontractor. In November the Trust announced that it had refused to sign the contract because it endangered the viability of its trauma and Accident and Emergency service as the number of referrals dropped by 30%.
It was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 2211 full time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.96%. 75% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 63% recommended it as a place to work. It spent 7.2% of its total turnover on agency staff in 2014/5.
Bedford Hospital is mainly situated on Britannia Road/Ampthill Road in the Cauldwell area of Bedford. This site (still popularly known as South Wing) is home to the Accident and Emergency department, theatres, pathology, inpatient wards, x-ray department, oncology services and the outpatients services. The main site houses BEDOC, NHS Bedfordshire CCG's GP out-of-hours emergency service.
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