Hull and East Riding Hospital

Hull and East Riding Hospital, formerly BUPA Hospital Hull and East Riding is now owned by Spire Healthcare. It is situated in Anlaby, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

The hospital offers private care to patients from a wide geographic area covering East Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire. It care offerings including cardiac services, orthopedic surgery and an intensive care unit.

The North of England Hyperbaric Unit is based at the hospital, treating patients with carbon monoxide poisoning and divers with the bends.

The Wilberforce Wing has a dedicated 10 bed ward which was designed for NHS patients, the first to open in a private hospital in the UK. It was built at a cost of £800,000 and opened on 24 November 2006 by the Shadow Home Secretary David Davis.[1]

A new health centre, the Spire Lowfield Clinic, is to be built on the site in 2015 as part of the Anlaby housing development. It will provide an extra 9,500sq ft of space on two floors and 200 parking spaces.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ Private Hospital is first in UK to open NHS ward, this is Hull and East Riding, retrieved 27 November 2006.
  2. ↑ "Building work starts on 200 new homes and health centre in Anlaby". Hull Daily Mail. 22 August 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2015.

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Coordinates: 53°44′22″N 0°26′06″W / 53.739381°N 0.435098°W / 53.739381; -0.435098

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