Wycombe Hospital

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Wycombe Hospital
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
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Wycombe Hospital (on the hill in the background)
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Geography
Location High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates 51°37′34″N0°45′13″W / 51.6262°N 0.7536°W / 51.6262; -0.7536 Coordinates: 51°37′34″N0°45′13″W / 51.6262°N 0.7536°W / 51.6262; -0.7536
Organisation
Care system Public NHS
Type District General
Services
Emergency department No Accident & Emergency
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Website http://www.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk/ Trust
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Wycombe Hospital is located in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. It is one of two acute and five community hospitals managed by the Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.

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History

The original hospital built on Marlow Hill was the "High Wycombe War Memorial Hospital" which opened in 1923 and was extended in 1932. [1] The current hospital, Wycombe Hospital, was built in phases on a site adjacent to the old Memorial Hospital with Phase 1 being completed in 1966, Phase 2 being completed in 1969 and Phase 3 being completed in 1971. [1] An extension to the hospital was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in the late 1990s. [2] The construction work was carried out by Taylor Woodrow and completed in 2000 as part of a scheme across the South Buckinghamshire hospitals at a cost of some £45 million. [3] [4]

The Accident and Emergency department was closed in 2005. A midwife-led birthing centre replaced the maternity unit and other services have been moved to the other hospitals run by the Trust. A campaign called Hand Back Our Hospital is attempting to restore services at the hospital. [5] More than 6000 people have signed a petition calling for the restoration of the casualty department. [6] Wycombe MP Steve Baker commissioned a report from the Durrow healthcare consultancy in 2014. This suggested that the hospital could be used for a "new generation" of casualty unit with an ambulance station integrated into the hospital and could offer GP appointments. [7]

On 25 September 2006, Wycombe Hospital was one of the first hospitals to change their patient administration system to the National Programme for IT's Care Records Service. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 Baker, Steve. "A brief history of Wycombe Hospital" . Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Wycombe General Hospital". Medical Architecture. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "NHS capital expenditure and the private finance initiative—expansion or contraction?" (PDF). British Medical Journal. 3 July 1999. p. 49. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "First private hospitals for NHS" . The Independent. 27 November 1995. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  5. ↑ "Britain's Got Talent star delivers Save Wycombe Hospital mosaic to Downing Street - minus his puppet". Get Bucks. 10 November 2014. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "Thousands sign petition to resurrect High Wycombe A&E centre". Get Bucks. 25 September 2014. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
  7. ↑ "Report calls for 'new kind of casualty' at Wycombe Hospital". Bucks Free Press. 3 October 2014. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
  8. ↑ "Department of Health: The National Programme for IT in the NHS". National Audit Office. 16 June 2006. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
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