Main Site (South Wing)
Bedford Hospital is mainly situated on Britannia Road/Ampthill Road in the Cauldwell area of Bedford. This site (which used to be known as South Wing) is home to the Accident and Emergency department, theatres, pathology, inpatient wards, x-ray department, oncology services and the outpatients services. The main site houses BEDOC, Bedfordshire Primary Care Trust's GP out-of-hours emergency service.
Recent developments on the main site include:
- Cygnet Wing (1996), a paediatric, maternity and gynaecology building
- A new critical care complex (2002)
- The Macmillian Primrose Centre (2003), an oncology centre funded entirely by charitable donations from local people
- Beeden House (2005), which hosts a cardiology suite
- A new £7m pathology building (2006)
Wards at the hospital include:
- Elizabeth - medical, 30 beds, gastroenterology and elderly patients
- Godber - medical, 18 beds, female endocrinology and cardiology patients
- Harpur - medical, 26 beds, acute medicine, elderly patients and palliative care
- Howard - surgical, 28 beds, orthopaedic patients
- Meadowbank - neonatal, 14 cots, special care baby unit (part of the Cygnet Wing)
- Pilgrim - medical, 30 beds, endocrine or diabetic patients
- Reginald Hart - rehabilitative, 30 beds, acute trauma patients
- Richard Wells - medical, 27 beds, respiratory and elderly patients
- Riverbank - paediatric, 16 beds/cots, patients aged 0–16
- Shand - surgical, 28 beds, vascular patients
- Shuttleworth - surgical, 32 beds, colorectal and gastrointestinal patients
- Tavistock - surgical, 25 beds, day surgery patients
- Victoria - rehabilitative, 16 beds, stroke patients
- Whitbread - clinical decisions unit, 28 beds, acute medical and surgical patients.
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