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 > 600
History
Founded 1969[1]
Links
Website http://www.northhampshire.nhs.uk/
Lists Hospitals in England

Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital (BNHH) is a 600 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 it became the first hospital in Europe to perform surgery using equipment operated by voice commands.[2]

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 first rate 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 main restaurant in the hospital is called the Rendevouz Restaurant which caters for non patients as well as inpatients and outpatients.

The hospital has been used as a set for both series of the Channel 4 comedy series Green Wing.[3]

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.[4]

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.

After construction completion in 2009, two new retail units were added. These include a branch of W H Smith as well as a branch of Costa Coffee within the front plaza.

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.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "NHS60th – Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital celebrate with a public Open Day". 11 June 2008. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
  2. ↑ Irwin, Aisling (4 November 1999). "Equipment operates on doctor's orders". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2006-12-26.
  3. ↑ Raphael, Amy (29 March 2006). "Green Wing's midwife and surgeon". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2006-12-26.
  4. ↑ "Public Art - Out of Town". Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council. 2005. Archived from the original on 2006-10-24. Retrieved 2006-12-26.

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

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