Peterborough City Hospital is an acute teaching hospital on the Edith Cavell Healthcare Campus serving the city of

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, north

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, areas of east

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and Rutland. It is managed by

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2017 from the acquisition of Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust by Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It runs Peterborough City Hospital, Stamford and Rutlan ...

History

The hospital was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in 2007 to replace Peterborough District Hospital and the

Edith Cavell Hospital The Edith Cavell Hospital was an acute hospital serving the city of Peterborough and north Cambridgeshire, east Northamptonshire and Rutland in the United Kingdom. Situated on a greenfield site at Westwood, Peterborough, it was decommissioned i ...

. It was designed by Nightingale Associates and built on the site of the Edith Cavell Hospital by

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at a cost of £340 million and opened to patients in November 2010. The official opening was carried out by the

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in November 2012. In same month, the National Audit Office reported that the Trust board's poor financial management and procurement of the scheme, which had been unaffordable, had left the Trust in a critical financial position.

Facilities

The 612 bed hospital has a Cancer Centre, Cardiology Centre, a Women's and Children's Unit and Adult and Paediatric Emergency Centres. It features 4-bedded 'cruciform wards’ which creates a large personal space around each bed and maximises the availability of daylight. The

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provides support services to help avoid admissions or speed up discharge from the hospital.

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* {{authority control Hospital buildings completed in 2010 Hospitals in Cambridgeshire Buildings and structures in Peterborough NHS hospitals in England

History

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