Hexham General Hospital

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Hexham General Hospital
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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Hexham General Hospital is located in Northumberland
Hexham General Hospital
Shown in Northumberland
Geography
LocationHexham, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates54°58′09″N 2°05′40″W / 54.9692°N 2.0945°W / 54.9692; -2.0945Coordinates: 54°58′09″N 2°05′40″W / 54.9692°N 2.0945°W / 54.9692; -2.0945
Organisation
Care systemNational Health Service
TypeDistrict General
Services
Emergency departmentNo Accident & Emergency
History
Opened1940
Links
Websitewww.northumbria.nhs.uk/our-locations/hexham-general-hospital/ Edit this at Wikidata
ListsHospitals in England

Hexham General Hospital is an acute general hospital in Hexham, Northumberland, England. It is managed by the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

History[]

The hospital has its origins in a facility built to treat wounded soldiers during the Second World War.[1] It opened in 1940 and joined the National Health Service in 1948.[2] At that time the hospital management took the opportunity to acquire the old workhouse buildings on an adjacent site to create administrative facilities for the hospital.[3]

A new hospital was procured under a Private Finance Initiative ('PFI') contract in 2001. It was designed by Jonathan Bailey Associates and built by Bovis Lend Lease[4] at a cost of £54 million.[5] It was officially opened by Tony Blair, Prime Minister, in January 2004.[6] In June 2014, the Trust announced that it had borrowed sufficient funds from Northumberland County Council at a low rate of interest to pay off the consortium who had developed the hospital and buy itself out of the PFI contract.[7][8][a]

Notes[]

  1. ^ West Park Hospital is another example of the Trust buying itself out of the PFI contract

References[]

  1. ^ "Tynedale remembers the fallen". Hexham Courant. 14 November 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  2. ^ "Hexham General Hospital, Hexham". National Archives. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  3. ^ "Hexham". Workhouses. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  4. ^ "Hexham General Hospital". Healthcare Design Magazine. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  5. ^ "Private Finance Initiative and Private Finance 2 projects: 2015 summary data" (PDF). HM Treasury. p. 13. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  6. ^ "Hexham General Hospital". Art UK. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  7. ^ "North east trust becomes first to buy-out of PFI deal". National Health Executive. 10 June 2014. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  8. ^ "Hexham hospital deal praised by Labour leaders". Hexham Courant. 26 September 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2018.

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