** About Hinchingbrooke **
Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust provides health care for the people of Huntingdonshire and surrounding areas. More than 161,000 people rely on the hospital for a range of services. We are renowned locally for our warm and friendly approach to health care. In the Care Quality Commission's Annual Health Check in 2009 the Trust was assessed as good for clinical services and fair for financial management. Our annual income is around £87 million.
The hospital is a modern purpose-built building opened in 1983, although some departments had moved here from the Huntingdon County Hospital several years before. We provide a wide range of specialties, many in conjunction with Addenbrooke's and Peterborough hospitals.
The hospital has 254 beds, including 24 specifically for day cases, alongside 23 cabins located in the Treatment Centre, the £22million unit which opened in November 2005. There are also an additional 9 beds in Critical Care. The hospital has a £1.2million Medical Assessment Unit. There are also facilities for private patients, which contributes to the hospital's income.
A growing number of joint appointments are being made with Addenbrooke's Hospital and an increasing number of referrals are now coming from family doctors in areas which traditionally have referred to Addenbrooke's. The main purchaser of the Trust's services is Cambridgeshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) (96%), with the remaining 4% coming from a range of PCTs across Peterborough, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and Suffolk.
History Of Hinchingbrooke Hospital
Hinchingbrooke Hospital is the local hospital for 161,000 people in the Huntingdonshire area, providing care and treatment for inpatients, outpatient and day cases.
The hospital was originally at the County Hospital on Brampton Road in Huntingdon. When the need was identified for a much larger hospital, work began on the current site in the late 1970s. The hospital was completed in 1983 and opened by the Duchess of Gloucester.
The Woodlands Centre, a later addition paid for by fundraising by the hospital and Macmillan offers care, support and outpatient treatment for cancer patients and others with a terminal illness.
In December 2001, the hospital opened a new 20 bed medical assessment unit, which has reduced demand on both accident and emergency and the other wards.
Further refurbishments have taken place in outpatients, with the first phase paid for with a grant of £750,000 from the Department of Health in recognition of the advances made in modernising our dermatology service.
The new £22 million Huntingdon Treatment Centre was officially opened by HRH the Princess Royal in November 2005.
Our new £6.5 million emergency care centre was fully operational from January 2007. It provides a state of the art environment for our high performing Accident and Emergency service, and out of hours GP, social and emergency mental health services.
