West Suffolk Hospital – I.T. Training Department

Website: http://www.wsh.nhs.uk

Contact: Liz Henthorn – I.T. Training Manager

The West Suffolk Hospital provides some of the best services in the country and this was confirmed by the Healthcare Commission’s rating of ‘excellent’ for the quality of our services in 2007.

We firmly believe that becoming a NHS Foundation Trust will make our services even better as patients, carers, local people and our staff become more involved in helping to shape healthcare to better suit their needs.

The West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust came into being on April 1st, 1993. It serves an area of approximately 600 square miles which extends to Thetford in the north, Sudbury in the south, Newmarket to the west and Stowmarket to the east. This encompasses a population of approximately 275,000.

A major extension providing facilities for elderly patients opened in 1977, the Day Surgery Unit opened in 1994, the Education Centre was completed 2003, the Eye Treatment Centre in 2004 and the new Macmillan Centre opened in 2005.

March 2006 saw the completion of a £3.4m Radiology scheme that delivered a new X-ray facility in the A&E area to aid through put of patients, a new nuclear medicine department, an additional CT scanner suite and new waiting areas. The final phase of the scheme is to provide a covered walkway to the MRI suite.

The West Suffolk Hospital has around 480 beds open at any one time. Set in a 19-hectare parkland site on the edge of Bury St Edmunds, the hospital has scope for expansion to meet the developing health care needs of the people of west Suffolk.