Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital

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Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital is a 450-bed National Health Service hospital in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England run by Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It employs around 2,800 staff. Each year it has around 47,000 admissions, sees 43,000 patients in the Emergency Department, sees around 175,000 outpatients and delivers over 2,800 babies.HistoryIn 1999 BNHH became the first hospital in Europe to perform surgery using equipment operated by voice commands.In 2002 a new education centre, The Ark Centre, was opened on the hospital campus, run by the North Hampshire Medical Education Trust, a registered charity. This works in partnership with the hospital to provide many postgraduate education functions as well as running as an independent conference centre. Other partners in The Ark are the Pelican Cancer Foundation, a charity dedicated to the cure of pelvic & liver cancer by the use of precision surgical techniques, and Southampton University's nurse training facility. The Ark specialises in high tech conferences, including medical & surgical meetings, providing IT and interactive live case presentation facilities. The charity also sponsors a large range of community activities, within the Ark itself, sponsoring a range of educational and self-help meetings.The hospital has been used as a set for both series of the Channel 4 comedy series Green Wing.An elephant-shaped fountain by sculptor Sioban Coppinger, made to form part of a children’s play area, stands in Hunters Courtyard in the grounds of the hospital.