Great Western Hospital

Great Western Hospital
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Shown in Wiltshire
Geography
Location Swindon, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates 51°32′56″N 1°45′18″W / 51.549°N 1.755°W / 51.549; -1.755Coordinates: 51°32′56″N 1°45′18″W / 51.549°N 1.755°W / 51.549; -1.755
Organisation
Care system Public NHS
Hospital type District General
Services
Emergency department Yes Accident & Emergency
Beds 400
History
Founded 2002
Links
Website Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Lists Hospitals in England

the Great Western Hospital is a large hospital situated in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, next to junction 15 of the M4 motorway run by the Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

History

The original hospital in Swindon was the Princess Margaret Hospital, in the Okus suburb to the south of the town, which started providing services to patients in 1960 but was not formally opened by Princess Margaret until April 1966.[1] It has since been fully demolished.[2]

The new hospital was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract to replace the services previously provided at the Princess Margaret Hospital and St Margaret's Hospital at Stratton St Margaret in 1999.[3] The architect for the new hospital was Whicheloe Macfarlane,[4] who designed the hospital with a concrete frame design. The outside of the building is covered in 7,600 square metres (82,000 sq ft) of cream coloured precast concrete cladding panels which attempt to replicate the appearance of Wiltshire stone.[5] There are six floors providing a total of 55,000 square metres (590,000 sq ft) of floor space.[6] It was built by Carillion[7] at a cost of £148 million;[8] it started providing services to patients in 2002 and was formally opened by HRH Prince Philip on 28 February 2003.[9]

Facilities

The facilities at the hospital include an accident and emergency department, an acute assessment unit, a twelve bedded intensive care / high dependency unit, an intermediate care centre on site, a health and social care education centre called the Academy, and a wide range of wards and clinics, serving approximately 300,000 people.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Then and now: A hospital's story". BBC. 29 July 2005. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Where the angels used to tread". Swindon Advertiser. 23 February 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "Highworth". Workhouses. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "The Great Western Hospital, Swindon". Royde & Tucker. Retrieved 2006-10-26.
  5. ↑ "The Great Western Hospital, Swindon". The Concrete Centre. Archived from the original on 2006-08-10. Retrieved 2006-10-26.
  6. ↑ "The Great Western Hospital, Swindon". ARUP facilities management. Retrieved 2006-10-26.
  7. ↑ "Great Western Hospital, Swindon to axe up to 200 jobs". Labour Net. Retrieved 2006-10-26.
  8. ↑ "Tarmac Start in site for hospital". Construction News. 8 January 1998. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
  9. ↑ "HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, visits Swindon". SwindonEvent.com. Retrieved 2006-10-26.
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