Ipswich Hospital
Ipswich Hospital is a large district general hospital in Heath Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, England. It is now managed by East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust which was formed on 1 July 2018 by the merging of Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust with Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust.
For the hospital in Australia, see Ipswich Hospital, Queensland.Ipswich Hospital
History[edit]
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] After services transferred from the old Anglesea Road site in 1985, the hospital simply became known as Ipswich Hospital.[3]
The hospital started implementing the Lorenzo patient record systems in December 2013.[4] It became one of the partners in the Pathology Partnership established in March 2014 and started acting as one of two hubs for pathology in the region.[5]
The Garrett Anderson Centre, named after the UK's first female doctor, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, opened in June 2008. Located at the South-East corner of the hospital land, the building includes an Emergency Department.[6]
In 2022 the first part of its new children's department opened. The project should be completed by summer 2024.[7]
