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Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Address |
Standing Way |
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Eaglestone |
| Town |
Milton Keynes |
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Buckinghamshire |
| Country |
UK |
| Post Code |
MK6 5LD |
| Phone |
01908 660033 |
| Fax |
01908 669348 |
| Email |
mail@mkgeneral.nhs.uk |
| Website |
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Specialization Of Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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About Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
** About Us **
Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a medium size hospital serving the people living in Milton Keynes and the surrounding areas.
The hospital has approximately 500 inpatient beds and provides a broad range of general medical and surgical services, including A&E, for over 300,000 people every year. We continue to develop our facilities to meet the needs of a growing population.
The hospital provides services for all medical, surgical and child health emergency admissions.
In addition to providing general acute services Milton Keynes Hospital increasingly provides more specialist services, including cancer, cardiology and oral surgery and has the responsibility for treating premature babies born locally and in the surrounding areas. Some of the babies we treat are born as early as 24 weeks old (16 weeks early) and weighing as little as 500 grams.
The Trust consistently performs to high standards. Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust achieved ratings of ‘good’ for quality of services and ‘excellent’ for use of resources in the Healthcare Commission’s 2007/08 national annual health check, ranking the Trust as the best performing hospital in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
In October 2007 we became a NHS Foundation Trust, which means that patients, the public and staff now have a greater say in the future of the hospital and in planning and developing services. For more information about NHS Foundation Trusts, visit Monitor's website.
The Trust employs around 3000 staff and has an annual spend (in 2007/08) of £115 million. Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust is our main commissioner.
In 2007/08 around 25,300 patients were admitted as an emergency, and we treated 18,750 elective patients (people having planned treatment), 191,000 out-patients and 67,808 people attended the Accident and Emergency Department. A record number of 3,716 babies (including 45 sets of twins) were delivered in the hospital last year.
Our vision is to be the healthcare provider of choice for the people of Milton Keynes. We aim to deliver the right treatment, in the right place at the right time.
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History Of Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
** The History of Milton Keynes Hospital **
Early days
Milton Keynes Hospital occupies a 60-hectare site to the south of the centre of the city. Prior to the building of a hospital in Milton Keynes, and before the development of the city, all hospital services were provided by Stoke Mandeville Hospital and Northampton General Hospital. A satellite outpatients department at Bletchley supported the Stoke Mandeville service with Northampton and Stony Stratford providing some outpatient services.
Development of the new city started at the end of the 1960s, but by the middle of the 1970s there was still no local hospital. A campaign under the banner "Milton Keynes is Dying for a Hospital" was started, which resulted in the commitment to build a hospital on the current Eaglestone site.
Shortage of resources made it apparent that the main hospital with acute services would not be built until the early 1980s, and so a "stop-gap" community hospital was built, which opened in 1979. This consisted of four wards, including one for acute mental illness care, a rehabilitation department, a small x-ray department, and a few other supporting services, e.g. estates, catering and portering. The community hospital was built adjacent and linked to the Eaglestone Health Centre, which was the first health care building on site in 1977-78.
The start
Phase I of the hospital was the first major acute health care development in Milton Keynes, and was built on the Eaglestone site to the eastern side of the already existing ommunity hospital, which the new hospital effectively absorbed. The acute services provision included four operating theatres, an Accident & Emergency Department, Maternity Services, general and speciality wards, full diagnostic x-ray facilities, a major Pathology Department, an on-site Ambulance Station, as well as the usual supporting departments found in an acute general hospital operating on a "District" Health Authority basis. It was officially opened in September 1984 by HRH the Duchess of Kent.
Along with this major development, other projects were completed, or followed soon after - a Postgraduate Education Centre and an extended Physiotherapy Department, including a hydrotherapy pool.
Growing
The continued rapid population growth of Milton Keynes (*Estimated increase from 1984 to 1994 - 40%) soon made it clear that the hospital would have to be enlarged to meet the increasing demand. Construction of Phase II started at the beginning of 1988. The development contained six additional 28-bed wards, a further (separate) suite of four operating theatres, a considerable amount of extra accommodation for the Pathology Department, and additional accommodation for stores, staff, offices and meeting rooms. Phase II was opened in October 1992, again by HRH The Duchess of Kent
Milton Keynes General NHS Trust formally came into being on 1st April 1992. Since the advent of the Trust, significant changes to the range of services offered at the hospital have included the addition of a Renal Unit, the expansion of Postgraduate Education facilities, a new MRI scanning unit, and the expansion and re-location of the Cardiology Unit and Coronary Care Ward.
Present day
The site has continued to grow. In recent years there has been a comprehensive building programme to add much needed capacity to meet the demands of a growing population. In 2002 a two-storey building housing a 26-bed orthopaedic ward and Breast Screening Unit was completed and opened.
In 2003 the Trust opened an extension to the Children's Ward to house a GP referral unit and assessment centre ward and a Patient Transfer Lounge, both of which opened in the summer of that year.
In 2004 a new office block was constructed to relieve the pressure on clinical space in the main body of the hospital and a 12- bed Oncology and Cancer Unit funded by the Macmillan Cancer Charity was completed. An enlarged clinic for the treatment of fractures was also opened in the summer.
January 2005 saw the opening of the biggest building project on the hospital site for ten years, a £12m 60-bed Treatment Centre. This has been specifically designed and built for the treatment of patients needing minor surgery, day and extended day case surgery. This has enabled the hospital to speed up treatment for patients needing this type of elective surgery.
A £2m angiography unit to support the work of the cardiac team at the hospital opened in April 2006.
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