Peterborough District Hospital

This article is about the former Peterborough District Hospital. For the present-day hospital, see Peterborough City Hospital.
Peterborough District Hospital
Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Trust
Geography
Location Thorpe Road, Peterborough, Cambs. PE3 6DA, United Kingdom
Coordinates 52°34′25″N 0°15′17″W / 52.5735°N 0.2546°W / 52.5735; -0.2546Coordinates: 52°34′25″N 0°15′17″W / 52.5735°N 0.2546°W / 52.5735; -0.2546
Organisation
Care system National Health Service
Hospital type District General
Services
Emergency department A&E
Beds 300+
History
Founded 1928
Links
Website http://www.peterboroughandstamford.nhs.uk/
Lists Hospitals in the United Kingdom

Peterborough District Hospital in the United Kingdom was the acute general district hospital serving the city of Peterborough and north Cambridgeshire, areas of east Northamptonshire and Rutland. Located on Thorpe Road and West Town, it was decommissioned in 2010, with services transferring to the new Peterborough City Hospital.

The War Memorial Hospital, which opened on Midland Road in 1928, was transferred to the National Health Service in 1948, coming under No. 12 Group (Peterborough and Stamford) Hospitals Management Committee of the East Anglian Regional Hospitals Board. Also transferred were Thorpe Hall (maternity 1943–1970), The Gables (maternity 1947–1970), the Smallpox Hospital (1884–1970), Isolation Hospital (1901–1981), and St. John's Close (mentally ill c.1930–1971). The neo-Georgian Memorial Hospital (now the Memorial Wing) was later enlarged by the massive addition of Peterborough District Hospital, built in continuous phases between 1960 and 1968 and including, from 1970, Peterborough Maternity Unit.[1]

Established in 1993, Peterborough Hospitals NHS Trust comprised two hospitals, Peterborough District Hospital and Edith Cavell Hospital. In 2002 Stamford and Rutland Hospital in Lincolnshire joined the trust. Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the country's top performing NHS acute trusts[2] and, in 2004 it became one of the first ten NHS foundation trusts in England.

A £300 million health investment plan has seen the transfer of the city's two hospitals to a single site on the grounds of the existing Edith Cavell Hospital in Bretton Gate from 15 November 2010, by building a modern, flexible facility more suited to modern healthcare.[3] The maternity unit also closed and moved into a new dedicated women and children’s unit within the new hospital. The name Peterborough City Hospital was chosen by public competition in 2008 and, together with the adjacent mental health unit, known as the New Gloucester Unit, now forms the Edith Cavell Healthcare Campus.[4]

Planning permission was granted for an integrated care centre on the site of the former Fenland Wing in 2006 and the City Care Centre opened on 1 July 2009.[5] The remainder of the site—to be known as the Hospital Quarter—is proposed for redevelopment.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Beatty, Gwendoline Peterborough and District War Memorial Hospital 1928–1968 in Peterborough's Past vol.3 (pp.45-56) Peterborough Museum Society, 1988
  2. ↑ The annual health check: assessing and rating the NHS (pp.22, 34 & 69) Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection, October 2006
  3. ↑ Greater Peterborough Health Investment Plan Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Peterborough Primary Care Trust and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mental Health Partnership Trust (retrieved 23 April 2007)
  4. ↑ New healthcare buildings now have names Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, 12 June 2008
  5. ↑ City Care Centre NHS Peterborough, 3 June 2009
  6. ↑ Help shape the Hospital Quarter Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, 13 March 2009

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