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The Walsgrave, and Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals were replaced by a new 'super hospital' at the Walsgrave site which was procured under a private finance initiative (PFI) contract in 2002. The new hospital was designed by Nightingale Associates [ 5 ] and built by Skanska at a cost of £440 million. [ 6 ]
The Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital was a former hospital in Coventry, England, on Stoney Stanton Road on the northern edge of the city centre.The hospital was opened in 1867 and closed in 2006, to be replaced by the new University Hospital Coventry sited about 4 miles (6.4 km) north east of the centre.
The University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust works in partnership with the University of Warwick's Warwick Medical School on particular research themes and areas of clinical research as well as providing training and education for postgraduates. [5] [6] Dr Raj Mattu, a consultant cardiologist was dismissed by the Trust in 2010.
The George Eliot Hospital Training and Education Centre ('GETEC') opened in July 2005. [5] An Acute health trust report released in 2006 suggested that George Eliot Hospital should be downgraded and some of its services moved to the new University Hospital Coventry in the Walsgrave area of Coventry which is nearby. [6]
Walsgrave on Sowe, or simply Walsgrave, is a suburban district situated approximately 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north-east of central Coventry, in the county of the West Midlands, central England. Although it now experiences very little flooding, it was built on marshlands.
The total raised from parking fees was £254 million. A survey of 7,800 people found 86% said parking added to the stress of their hospital visit and they described the fees as a "rip-off", "extortionate" and "astronomical". Car parking fees were an issue in the 2019 United Kingdom general election. [4]
The hospital, which was designed to have 48 beds and was built at a cost of £25 million, opened in February 2006. [2] In April 2013 it was accused of instructing doctors to delay NHS operations to encourage patients to go private instead.
Coventry has two universities; Coventry University is situated on a modern city centre campus while the University of Warwick lies 3.5 miles (5.6 kilometres) to the south of the city centre. The University of Warwick is one of only five universities never to have been rated outside the top ten in terms of teaching excellence and research and is ...