Ipswich Hospital is a large district general hospital in Heath Road,

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. It is now managed by East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust which was formed on 1 July 2018 by the merging of Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust with Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust.

History

The hospital had its origins in the Ipswich Workhouse Infirmary, which was designed by

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and built by George Grimwood & Son, and which opened in 1889. It became the Ipswich Borough General Hospital in 1939 and, after it had joined the

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in 1948, it became the Ipswich Hospital, Heath Road Wing in 1955. After services transferred from the old

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site in 1985, the hospital simply became known as Ipswich Hospital. The hospital started implementing the Lorenzo patient record systems in December 2013. It became one of the partners in the Pathology Partnership established in March 2014 and started acting as one of two hubs for pathology in the region. The Garrett Anderson Centre, named after the UK's first female doctor, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, opened in June 2008. Located at the South-East corner of the hospital land, the building includes an Emergency Department. In 2022 the first part of its new children's department opened. The project should be completed by summer 2024.

Performance

In November 2013 it was reported that the Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust had failed to meet a number of targets set by the Ipswich and East Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group and faced financial penalties at a time when it already faced a deficit of £5.5 million. In 2014 the trust was the fifth best in England on the target of seeing 95 per cent of people who attend accident and emergency departments within four hours; it achieved 96.6 percent, despite an 11 per cent increase in non-elective admissions. The trust has developed a tool that gives three hours' warning when the target is likely to be missed, based on factors such as acuity and intensive therapy unit bed numbers. Ipswich hospital tower block 10s07

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History

Performance

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