Northampton General Hospital is a district general hospital in

Northampton Northampton () is a market town and civil parish in the East Midlands of England, on the River Nene, north-west of London and south-east of Birmingham. The county town of Northamptonshire, Northampton is one of the largest towns in England ...

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. It is managed by the Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust.

History

The hospital was established in a townhouse on George Row in 1744. After a fund-raising campaign led by Dr William Kerr, a purpose-built hospital designed by Mr A Saxton was built at Northampton Fields and opened in 1793. Two series of

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's '' Bizarre ER'' were filmed at the hospital in autumn 2009. In October 2012, the Macmillan Haematology Unit, a multimillion-pound cancer facility, was opened by the Countess of Halifax, President of

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. An elderly man died in March 2018 while waiting to be seen by a consultant at the hospital's accident and emergency department: overcrowding at the department was blamed.

Performance

In October 2013 as a result of the Keogh Review the Trust was put into the highest risk category by the

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. On 27 March 2014 the Care Quality Commission published its report following an inspection of the trust. As well as identifying areas for improvement there were a number of positive findings. The trust was judged as good across all services for ‘caring’ and inspectors found that, in the main, the safety and effectiveness of services had been maintained, despite the overriding urgent care pressures. On 24 October 2019 the Care Quality Commission published a report rating the hospital as "requires improvement" overall, with some areas "good".

Transport links

Northampton has several bus stations outside, and it is served by the 9B 12 51 4 & 5 which are operated by

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. The VH1 is operated by the Cogenhoe parish council.

References

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History

Performance

Transport links

See also

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