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The current facilities at St John's include a recently accident and emergency ward renovated in 2014, and a large maternity unit, with around 2,500 births annually. [2] The radiology department uses a trust-wide PACS system, complete with 2 digital screening rooms, spiral CT, 4 ultrasound machines and a gamma camera. [1]
Whipps Cross provides a full range of local general hospital services and is home to one of the busiest A&E departments in the country. [12] Whipps Cross was listed as having one of the worst rates for MRSA in 2008 [13] but by 2010 Whipps Cross had the lowest rate of infections in London. [14]
NHS Direct Wales is a 24-hour telephone and internet health advice service provided by NHS Wales to enable people to obtain advice when use of the national emergency telephone number (999 or 112) does not seem to be appropriate but there is some degree of urgency; it also functions as a confidential advice service for some medical matters which a patient might be reluctant to discuss with ...
The number of patients waiting 12 hours or more in A&E to be admitted to a ward has hit a new record high.. Figures from NHS England show that in January, 61,529 people waited more than 12 hours ...
The hospital is constructed on land which was formerly part of the southern portions of the Eglinton Castle Estate. [1] The hospital, which was designed by William Reid and commissioned by the now defunct Ayr County Council, was built from 1936 and was opened in stages from 1941 and became fully operational by 1944. [2]
The South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is the NHS ambulance services trust for south-eastern England, covering Kent (including Medway), Surrey, West Sussex and East Sussex (including Brighton and Hove). It also covers a part of north-eastern Hampshire around Aldershot, Farnborough, Fleet and Yateley.
In 1997, the hospital's Accident and Emergency department was downgraded to a minor injuries unit; there has been a campaign locally to restore full A&E services to the hospital, citing a growing local population, and the long journey to the nearest A&E department in Coventry, some 12 miles (19 km) away. [18] [19] [20]
The Trust took over the management of Princess Royal University Hospital in October 2013 after the dissolution of the South London Healthcare NHS Trust. Over Christmas 2013 8 patients there waited on trolleys for more than 12 hours for admission, the largest number of trolley waits in England. [12]