North East Wales NHS Trust
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North East Wales NHS Trust (Welsh: Ymddiriedolaeth GIG Gogledd Ddwyrain Cymru) is an NHS Trust in Wales. The headquarters of the Trust is in the Maelor Hospital, in Wrexham. It was founded on 1 April 1999, when the NHS Trusts in Wales were reconfigured. The Trust provides secondary care services for the Wrexham and Flintshire Local Authority areas, including mental health care - a population of around 300,000 people, through one major acute hospital, five community hospitals, and a variety of clinics. The Trust reported a budget deficit of £3.6 million at the end of the 2005/06 financial year.
The Chairman is Michael Williams[1], a former leader of Wrexham Country Borough Council, and the Chief Executive is Mary Burrows[2].
It was confirmed in April 2008 that the North East Wales NHS Trust intends to merge with the Conwy & Denbighshire NHS Trust, creating a new trust covering the preserved county area of Clwyd. Both trusts agreed to the merger, and approval from the health minister was given on 22 May 2008.[1]
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[edit] Major hospitals
[edit] Flint Community Hospital
Flint Community Hospital is an 18-bed community hospital in Flint, specialising in rehabilitation and palliative care.
[edit] Deeside Community Hospital
Deeside Community Hospital, located in Deeside, is a 62-bed community hospital, with various functions including rehab, palliative care, physiotherapy, X-ray, and outpatient services.
[edit] Chirk Community Hospital
Chirk Community Hospital, with 31 beds, is a small local hospital based in Chirk.
[edit] Holywell Community Hospital
Holywell Community Hospital is a small hospital in Holywell, with 20 beds. It is to be closed by 2008, as a new £11.4 million 44 bed hospital is to be built in its stead.[3]
Holywell Community Hospital Has closed the 20 Beds have move to Lluesty Hospital but The O.P.D AND X-Ray Department will stay there til the New Hospital it was a sad day when Staff new of the News That the Hospital Had to Closed the Good Companies help to Close Holywell
[edit] Lluesty Hospital
Lluesty Hospital in Holywell is a 25-bed hospital for rehabilitation of the elderly. Similarly to Holywell Community Hospital, it will also be closed when the new hospital opens in 2008.
[edit] Mold Community Hospital
Mold Community Hospital is a 40-bed hospital in Mold, Flintshire.
[edit] Penley Polish Hospital
The Penley Polish Hospital, with 8 individual bedded rooms, was based in Penley, Maelor, near Wrexham and Whitchurch. It cared for Polish ex-servicemen who fought for the Allies during World War II, and their families who settled in the area. Residents at the hospital included Polish military commander, Wacław Przeździecki. At its peak, in the early 1950s, the hospital housed more than 2,000 patients and staff. By the time it closed, in March 2002, there were 6 patients, in one ward (the only one remaining open out of the original 30).
[edit] Wrexham Maelor Hospital
Wrexham Maelor Hospital (Ysbyty Wrecsam Maelor in Welsh) is a major acute district hospital, with 697 beds. A full range of clinical specialities are managed by the hospital, including accident and emergency, obstetrics, pathology, surgery, orthopaedics, medicine, paediatrics, genitourinary medicine, and imaging.
[edit] References
- North East Wales NHS Trust website
- 2005/2006 yearly report on the Trust - PDF file
- The story of the Penley Poles on the BBC website.
