Stamford and Rutland Hospital is an elective care hospital in

Stamford, Lincolnshire Stamford is a town and civil parish in the South Kesteven District of Lincolnshire, England. The population at the 2011 census was 19,701 and estimated at 20,645 in 2019. The town has 17th- and 18th-century stone buildings, older timber-framed ...

administered 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 Rutland ...

History

The hospital was built on a site previously occupied by Greyfriars, Stamford and donated by the

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. It was funded by a bequest from the will of surgeon Henry Fryer, designed by

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and opened in 1828. Between 1876 and 1879 the hospital was expanded with the addition of three fever ward blocks, under architect

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with input from surgeon Dr William Newman. The wards incorporated a number of features such as centralised ward interiors and glazed internal walling, and were cited as an exemplar of single-block planning for small hospitals, particular by

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. The fever wards are

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and are a testament to how voluntary hospitals dealt with nineteenth century epidemics of contagious disease. A substantial redevelopment of the hospital was completed in July 2017, which included new imaging facilities, including a permanent MRI scanning suite, and cancer treatment facilities.

Services

The hospital provides a minor injuries unit, large scale outpatient services and day-case surgery, with the largest pain management centre in the region. It also has a medicine for the elderly ward with 22 intermediate care beds. The trust's largest hospital,

Peterborough City Hospital Peterborough City Hospital is an acute teaching hospital on the Edith Cavell Healthcare Campus serving the city of Peterborough, north Cambridgeshire, areas of east Northamptonshire and Rutland. It is managed by North West Anglia NHS Foundation ...

, provides the majority of emergency and inpatient services in the area; the two together thus provide a comprehensive suite of services in a predominantly "hot" and "cold" split. It was rated "good" by the

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in May 2014.

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* NHS hospitals in England Hospitals in Lincolnshire Health in Lincolnshire Buildings and structures in Stamford, Lincolnshire {{NHS-stub