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Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is an NHS trust which runs three hospitals and one ward in Worcestershire, England: The Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Worcester, the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch, Kidderminster Hospital and Treatment Centre in Kidderminster, and Burlingham Ward at Evesham Community Hospital in Evesham.
A new hospital was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract to replace the Worcester Royal Infirmary in 1999, with the new site located on the eastern side of the city. [1] The new hospital was designed by Anshen Dyer, [4] built by Bovis Lend Lease [5] at a cost of £85 million [6] and opened in March 2002. [7]
The hospital, which replaced the Smallwood Hospital at Church Green, [1] was completed in 1985. [2] It was officially opened by Princess Alexandra in April 1987. [3]After four consultants left the hospital because of "continuing uncertainty about the future of Redditch Hospital" in February 2015, there were calls from a local pressure group for Government intervention. [2]
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has apologised and said its A&Es were seeing high numbers of walk-in patients, with ambulance patients experiencing lengthy waits to be handed over.
Meanwhile, acute respiratory disease accounts for 13.8% of emergency department visits statewide, according to this week’s state report: 2.4% related to COVID-19, 2% to influenza and .3% to RSV.
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The hospital has its origins in the Kidderminster Union Workhouse Infirmary which was completed about 1884. [1] The hospital joined the National Health Service as Kidderminster Infirmary and Children's Hospital in 1948. [2] It became Kidderminster and District General Hospital in 1974 and Kidderminster General Hospital in 2000. [2]
Roughly half of the funds ($13.3 million) were paid to Heywood Healthcare in April 2023. The rest came in monthly $2.2 million installments from October 2023 through the end of February.