The Great Western Hospital is a large hospital in

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, England, near junction 15 of the

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. It opened in 2002 and is run by the

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust runs the Great Western Hospital, a large hospital situated in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, next to junction 15 of the M4 motorway. Performance In the ratings produced by the Healthcare Commissio ...

History

The original hospital in

was the Princess Margaret Hospital, in the

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suburb to the south of the town, which started providing services to patients in 1960 but was not formally opened by

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until April 1966. It has since been fully demolished. The new hospital was procured under a

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contract to replace the services previously provided at the Princess Margaret Hospital and St Margaret's Hospital at

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in 1999. The architect for the new hospital was Whicheloe Macfarlane, who designed the hospital with a concrete frame. The outside of the building is covered in of cream coloured precast concrete cladding panels which attempt to replicate the appearance of Wiltshire stone. There are six floors providing a total of of floor space. It was built by

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at a cost of £148 million; it started providing services to patients in 2002 and was formally opened by HRH Prince Philip on 28 February 2003.

Facilities

The facilities at the hospital include an

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, an

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, a twelve bedded intensive care / high dependency unit, a maternity 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.

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History

Facilities

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