Hexham General Hospital

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Hexham General Hospital
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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Main Entrance to Hexham General Hospital
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Shown in Northumberland
Geography
Location Hexham, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates 54°58′09″N2°05′40″W / 54.9692°N 2.0945°W / 54.9692; -2.0945
Organisation
Care system National Health Service
Type District General
Services
Emergency department No Accident & Emergency
History
Opened1940
Links
Website www.northumbria.nhs.uk/our-locations/hexham-general-hospital/ OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Lists Hospitals in England

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

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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] [lower-alpha 1]

Notes

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

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