Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Description

About Us
Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a medium size hospital serving the people living in Milton Keynes and the surrounding areas

The hospital has approximately 500 inpatient beds and provides a broad range of general medical and surgical services including AampE for over 300000 people every year We continue to develop our facilities to meet the needs of a growing population

The hospital provides services for all medical surgical and child health emergency admissions

In addition to providing general acute services Milton Keynes Hospital increasingly provides more specialist services including cancer cardiology and oral surgery and has the responsibility for treating premature babies born locally and in the surrounding areas Some of the babies we treat are born as early as 24 weeks old 16 weeks early and weighing as little as 500 grams

The Trust consistently performs to high standards Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust achieved ratings of good for quality of services and excellent for use of resources in the Healthcare Commissions 200708 national annual health check ranking the Trust as the best performing hospital in Bedfordshire Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire

In October 2007 we became a NHS Foundation Trust which means that patients the public and staff now have a greater say in the future of the hospital and in planning and developing services For more information about NHS Foundation Trusts visit Monitors website

The Trust employs around 3000 staff and has an annual spend in 200708 of pound115 million Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust is our main commissioner

In 200708 around 25300 patients were admitted as an emergency and we treated 18750 elective patients people having planned treatment 191000 outpatients and 67808 people attended the Accident and Emergency Department A record number of 3716 babies including 45 sets of twins were delivered in the hospital last year

Our vision is to be the healthcare provider of choice for the people of Milton Keynes We aim to deliver the right treatment in the right place at the right time

History

The History of Milton Keynes Hospital

Early days
Milton Keynes Hospital occupies a 60hectare site to the south of the centre of the city Prior to the building of a hospital in Milton Keynes and before the development of the city all hospital services were provided by Stoke Mandeville Hospital and Northampton General Hospital A satellite outpatients department at Bletchley supported the Stoke Mandeville service with Northampton and Stony Stratford providing some outpatient services

Development of the new city started at the end of the 1960s but by the middle of the 1970s there was still no local hospital A campaign under the banner quotMilton Keynes is Dying for a Hospitalquot was started which resulted in the commitment to build a hospital on the current Eaglestone site

Shortage of resources made it apparent that the main hospital with acute services would not be built until the early 1980s and so a quotstopgapquot community hospital was built which opened in 1979 This consisted of four wards including one for acute mental illness care a rehabilitation department a small xray department and a few other supporting services eg estates catering and portering The community hospital was built adjacent and linked to the Eaglestone Health Centre which was the first health care building on site in 197778

The start
Phase I of the hospital was the first major acute health care development in Milton Keynes and was built on the Eaglestone site to the eastern side of the already existing ommunity hospital which the new hospital effectively absorbed The acute services provision included four operating theatres an Accident amp Emergency Department Maternity Services general and speciality wards full diagnostic xray facilities a major Pathology Department an onsite Ambulance Station as well as the usual supporting departments found in an acute general hospital operating on a quotDistrictquot Health Authority basis It was officially opened in September 1984 by HRH the Duchess of Kent

Along with this major development other projects were completed or followed soon after a Postgraduate Education Centre and an extended Physiotherapy Department including a hydrotherapy pool

Growing
The continued rapid population growth of Milton Keynes Estimated increase from 1984 to 1994 40 soon made it clear that the hospital would have to be enlarged to meet the increasing demand Construction of Phase II started at the beginning of 1988 The development contained six additional 28bed wards a further separate suite of four operating theatres a considerable amount of extra accommodation for the Pathology Department and additional accommodation for stores staff offices and meeting rooms Phase II was opened in October 1992 again by HRH The Duchess of Kent

Milton Keynes General NHS Trust formally came into being on 1st April 1992 Since the advent of the Trust significant changes to the range of services offered at the hospital have included the addition of a Renal Unit the expansion of Postgraduate Education facilities a new MRI scanning unit and the expansion and relocation of the Cardiology Unit and Coronary Care Ward

Present day
The site has continued to grow In recent years there has been a comprehensive building programme to add much needed capacity to meet the demands of a growing population In 2002 a twostorey building housing a 26bed orthopaedic ward and Breast Screening Unit was completed and opened

In 2003 the Trust opened an extension to the Childrens Ward to house a GP referral unit and assessment centre ward and a Patient Transfer Lounge both of which opened in the summer of that year

In 2004 a new office block was constructed to relieve the pressure on clinical space in the main body of the hospital and a 12 bed Oncology and Cancer Unit funded by the Macmillan Cancer Charity was completed An enlarged clinic for the treatment of fractures was also opened in the summer

January 2005 saw the opening of the biggest building project on the hospital site for ten years a pound12m 60bed Treatment Centre This has been specifically designed and built for the treatment of patients needing minor surgery day and extended day case surgery This has enabled the hospital to speed up treatment for patients needing this type of elective surgery

A pound2m angiography unit to support the work of the cardiac team at the hospital opened in April 2006