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The trust was formed on 1 July 2018 by the merger of Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust and The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust. [3] [4] The trust used Datix in 2022 to report inappropriate attendances at A&E to GP practices.
The hospital had its origins in the Ipswich Workhouse Infirmary, which was designed by Henry Percy Adams and built by George Grimwood & Son, and which opened in 1889. [1] [2] It became the Ipswich Borough General Hospital in 1939 and, after it had joined the National Health Service in 1948, it became the Ipswich Hospital, Heath Road Wing in 1955. [1]
Herts and Essex Hospital – Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire – community hospital; Hertford County Hospital, Hertfordshire; Hinchingbrooke Hospital – Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire; Ipswich Hospital – Ipswich; James Paget University Hospital – Gorleston, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk; Kingsley Green, Hertfordshire; Lister Hospital – Stevenage ...
The Trust's main acute hospital site, which was opened in 1985, is Colchester Hospital. The Trust also owns Essex County Hospital in Colchester, which was opened in 1820. At Harwich and Clacton community hospitals, both managed by NHS North East Essex (the PCT), the Trust provides minor injury and outpatient services. [1]
It runs a service called Suffolk GP+ which offers appointments to patients on bank holidays and out of hours. Patients attending the A&E department at Ipswich Hospital and a West Suffolk Hospital, who are assessed as have minor ailments are offered an appointment with the service, which has access to their GP record.
Serco ran Suffolk Community Healthcare from 2012 until 2015. In October 2015 the services were due to be taken over by a joint venture run by Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust and Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust.
The hospital, then named Colchester District General Hospital, was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 20 May 1985. [1] At the time, it had nine wards and 283 beds, built in groups around landscaped courtyards. [2] [3] The hospital has been expanded a number of times since its opening, and several new buildings have been added.
The building was converted for hospital use and officially opened as the Whinfield Hospital by the Princess Royal in 1932. [1] After the hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948, Princess Mary returned to open a new outpatients department in 1961. [ 1 ]