The Edith Cavell Hospital is located two miles form the city centre and is the Trust's main centre for elective surgery and diagnostic work. It's services include:
Isolation ward, Medicine for the elderly ward, General surgical ward, Ears, nose and throat (ENT) service, Urology service, Adult and paediatric ENT, Orthopaedic ward, Outpatients, Day surgery unit, A hyperbaric oxygen unit, Five operating theatres, Radiology, Four inpatient beds for management of chronic intractable pain, MRI service, Breast imaging unit, Bone mineral densitometry unit, Pharmacy, Angiography suite
The Robert Horrell Macmillan Day Centre is located on site and offers palliative care to patients living with cancer.
Edith Cavell Hospital also contains three wards and a day activity centre for patients with mental health problems. These services are managed independently by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mental Health Partnership Trust.
As part of the £335m Greater Peterborough Health Investment Plan (GPHIP) services at the Edith Cavell Hospital will move to a new state-of -the-art acute hospital in 2010 (Peterborough City Hospital) which is under construction on the current Edith Cavell site. The site will also incorporate a new mental health unit operated by the local mental health trust, and become a healthcare campus.
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