Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital

Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital
National Health Service
Geography
Location Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Organisation
Care system Public NHS
Hospital type District
Patron None
Services
Emergency department Yes Accident & Emergency
Beds 950 (Trust - December 2015)[1]
History
Founded 1969[2]
Links
Website http://www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk/
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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.

History

In 1999 BNHH became the first hospital in Europe to perform surgery using equipment operated by voice commands.[3]

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.[4] 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.[5]

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.[6]

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.[7] In 2013, it also contained the Candover Clinic.

BNHH has had several outbreaks of Norovirus in the past, notably in December 2011,[8] January 2013, April 2016,[9] 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.

Candover Clinic

The Candover Clinic is a private hospital located on the BNHH's site.[10] It is also funded and operated by Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.[11] The clinic was built in 2013 and is dedicated to private patients. It provides an outpatients service, an inpatient ward, operating theatres and medical imaging to private patients.[10]

The clinic has a 22-bed inpatient ward containing 22 individual en-suite rooms. It has a number of on-site diagnostic imaging machines, including MRI, CT, ultrasound and x-ray. There are also anaesthetic rooms and operating theatres as part of the unit for routine operations.[10]

Despite being situated on the same site as Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, the clinic provides services to private patients only. Patients pay for services either through private insurance or through self-funding.[12] The profits generated from the clinic are reinvested into the Foundation Trust to provide a source of additional funding for the public services offered by HHFT. Over the period 2014-2016, the clinic had generated an income of £8.6 million.[13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/bed-availability-and-occupancy/bed-data-overnight/
  2. ↑ "NHS60th – Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital celebrate with a public Open Day". 11 June 2008. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
  3. ↑ Irwin, Aisling (4 November 1999). "Equipment operates on doctor's orders". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2006-12-26.
  4. ↑ "Dreams become reality at The ARK". Southern Daily Echo. 4 October 2002.
  5. ↑ Raphael, Amy (29 March 2006). "Green Wing's midwife and surgeon". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2006-12-26.
  6. ↑ "Public Art - Out of Town". Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council. 2005. Archived from the original on 24 October 2006. Retrieved 2006-12-26.
  7. ↑ "Hampshire hospital trust to serve 600,000 people after merger". BBC News. 9 January 2012.
  8. ↑ "Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital norovirus warning". BBC News. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
  9. ↑ "Norovirus cases at Hampshire hospital". Daily Echo. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
  10. 1 2 3 "Candover Clinic | Our Facilities". Retrieved 2016-07-11.
  11. ↑ "Candover Clinic Private Healthcare - Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust". www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
  12. ↑ "Candover Clinic | Insurance or Self-Funding". Retrieved 2016-07-11.
  13. ↑ "Candover Clinic | Community Benefits". Retrieved 2016-07-11.

Coordinates: 51°17′N 1°07′W / 51.28°N 1.11°W / 51.28; -1.11

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