King's Mill Hospital

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King's Mill Hospital provides inpatient, outpatient and day care, urgent care and children and maternity services for the population of north Nottinghamshire and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. It is run by Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust which has its headquarters on the hospital site. It is situated next to the main A38 road in a former large open space, part of the countryside on the boundary between the towns of Sutton-in-Ashfield and Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. Nearby developments include a large road junction with adjacent fast-food and pub, a hotel, a large DIY retail materials-warehouse and small shops together with some traditional, established housing on the very-edge development areas of the two district councils.The majority of the hospital buildings are inside Ashfield District Council (town planning) area with some peripheral buildings falling under Mansfield District Council planning controls.OverviewThe hospital serves the towns and many villages in the Mansfield Urban Area, parts of the adjacent Nottingham Urban Area, the Newark and Sherwood area and also parts of the neighbouring counties of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. The ambulance station, run by East Midlands Ambulance Service, opened in 1981, and is on the A38 road, nearby. separated from the hospital complex by Morrisons supermarket car park, which shares an approach-road with the hospital.