Candover Clinic
| Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital | |
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| National Health Service | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public NHS |
| Hospital type | District |
| Patron | None |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes Accident & Emergency |
| Beds | 879 (Trustwide, Quarter 1, 2017) |
| History | |
| Founded | 1969 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk/ |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital (BNHH) is a 450-bed National Health Service (NHS) hospital in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England run by Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It employs around 2,800 staff. Each year it has around 47,000 admissions, sees 43,000 patients in the Emergency Department, sees around 175,000 outpatients and delivers over 2,800 babies.
In 1999 BNHH became the first hospital in Europe to perform surgery using equipment operated by voice commands.
In 2002 a new education centre, The Ark Centre, was opened on the hospital campus, run by the North Hampshire Medical Education Trust, a registered charity. This works in partnership with the hospital to provide many postgraduate education functions as well as running as an independent conference centre. Other partners in The Ark are the Pelican Cancer Foundation, a charity dedicated to the cure of pelvic & liver cancer by the use of precision surgical techniques, and Southampton University's nurse training facility. The Ark specialises in high tech conferences, including medical & surgical meetings, providing IT and interactive live case presentation facilities. The charity also sponsors a large range of community activities, within the Ark itself, sponsoring a range of educational and self-help meetings.
The hospital has been used as a set for both series of the Channel 4 comedy series Green Wing.
An elephant-shaped fountain by sculptor Sioban Coppinger, made to form part of a children’s play area, stands in Hunters Courtyard in the grounds of the hospital.
The hospital has its own hospital radio station called Hospital Radio Basingstoke on 945 kHz AM and on channel 6 on the bedside PatientLine units.
Early in 2012 the hospital amalgamated the Andover War Memorial Hospital and the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester into one NHS Foundation Trust called The Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which covers all three hospitals. In 2013, it also contained the Candover Clinic.
BNHH has had several outbreaks of Norovirus in the past, notably in December 2011, January 2013, April 2016, although these have mostly been small-scale and well-isolated by infection control procedures, reduced visiting hours and advice that vulnerable patients shouldn't attend the hospital during outbreaks.
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