West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

West Suffolk Hospital
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Geography
Location Hardwick Lane
Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk, England
Organisation
Care system NHS England
Hospital type District general
Services
Emergency department Yes
Beds 430 (approx)
History
Founded 1832
Links
Website http://www.wsh.nhs.uk/Home.aspx
Lists Hospitals in England

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust runs West Suffolk Hospital which is a large district general hospital in Bury St Edmunds, England. Founded in 1832,[1] It provides a wide range of services to the population of west Suffolk and serves a catchment area of approximately 600 square miles with a population of around 275,000 people.[2]

History

West Suffolk Hospital was founded in 1832, and moved to its current site in 1973. It became an NHS Trust in 1993.[1] In 2002, the hospital was widely publicised as Myra Hindley had died there.[3]

Hospital services

West Suffolk includes Accident & Emergency, Maternity, Oncology and Palliative Care services.[4]

In June 2013, Frederick Hervey, 8th Marquess of Bristol, opened the new Friends of the Hospital shop.[5]

The trust is adopting the Cerner Millennium electronic patient record system, hoping to go live with the new system in October 2015.[6]

Performance

It was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 2604 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.86%. 78% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 76% recommended it as a place to work.[7]

In September 2016, the trust was selected by NHS England as one of twelve Global Digital Exemplars.[8]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "About Us Annual report 2008/09". West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  2. "About Us". West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  3. "Myra Hindley dies in hospital". guardian.co.uk. 15 November 2002. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  4. "West Suffolk Hospital website".
  5. "Marquess cuts ribbon on bigger shop". Bury Free Press.
  6. "West Suffolk to migrate data with Stalis". E-Health Insider. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
  7. "HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015". Health Service Journal. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  8. "New plans to expand the use of digital technology across the NHS". gov.uk. Department of Health and The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP. Retrieved 9 September 2016.

Coordinates: 52°13′54″N 0°42′33″E / 52.2316°N 0.7092°E / 52.2316; 0.7092

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