Hexham General Hospital

Hexham General Hospital is an acute general hospital in Hexham, Northumberland, England. It is managed by the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

Hexham General Hospital
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Main Entrance to Hexham General Hospital
Shown in Northumberland
Geography
LocationHexham, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates54.9692°N 2.0945°W / 54.9692; -2.0945
Organisation
Care systemNational Health Service
TypeDistrict General
Services
Emergency departmentNo Accident & Emergency
History
Opened1940
Links
Websitewww.northumbria.nhs.uk/our-locations/hexham-general-hospital/
ListsHospitals in England

History

The hospital has its origins in a facility built to treat wounded soldiers during the Second World War.[1] It opened in 1940 and joined the National Health Service in 1948.[2] At that time the hospital management took the opportunity to acquire the old workhouse buildings on an adjacent site to create administrative facilities for the hospital.[3]

A new hospital was procured under a Private Finance Initiative ('PFI') contract in 2001. It was designed by Jonathan Bailey Associates and built by Bovis Lend Lease[4] at a cost of £54 million.[5] It was officially opened by Tony Blair, Prime Minister, in January 2004.[6] In June 2014, the Trust announced that it had borrowed sufficient funds from Northumberland County Council at a low rate of interest to pay off the consortium who had developed the hospital and buy itself out of the PFI contract.[7][8][lower-alpha 1]

Notes
  1. West Park Hospital is another example of the Trust buying itself out of the PFI contract

References
  1. "Tynedale remembers the fallen". Hexham Courant. 14 November 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  2. "Hexham General Hospital, Hexham". National Archives. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  3. "Hexham". Workhouses. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  4. "Hexham General Hospital". Healthcare Design Magazine. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  5. "Private Finance Initiative and Private Finance 2 projects: 2015 summary data" (PDF). HM Treasury. p. 13. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  6. "Hexham General Hospital". Art UK. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  7. "North east trust becomes first to buy-out of PFI deal". National Health Executive. 10 June 2014. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  8. "Hexham hospital deal praised by Labour leaders". Hexham Courant. 26 September 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
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