Milton Keynes University Hospital

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Milton Keynes is a hospital committed to learning, to honesty, and to the best possible care and experience for every patient, every time.

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Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides a broad range of general medical and surgical services for more than 300,000 people every year.

Our mission:
"Milton Keynes is a hospital committed to learning, to honesty, and to the best possible care and experience for every patient, every time."

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Milton Keynes Hospital occupies a 60-hectare site to the south of the city centre.

We are a medium sized district general hospital, serving Milton Keynes and surrounding areas.

The hospital has approximately 400 inpatient beds, and provides a broad range of general medical and surgical services.

We have a busy A&E Department that manages all medical, surgical and child health emergency admissions.

As our local population grows, we continue to develop our facilities.

In addition to providing general acute services, Milton Keynes Hospital increasingly provides more specialist services, including cancer care, cardiology and oral surgery.

We have responsibility for treating premature babies born locally. Some of the babies we treat are born as early as 24 weeks old (16 weeks early), and weigh as little as 500 grams.

Some quick facts:

the Trust employs 3,000 staff
we have beds for 400 patients
70,000 people come to Accident and Emergency every year
we treat 20,000 elective patients, 200,000 outpatients, and deliver over 4,000 babies every year.

"Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a medium sized district hospital that provides a full range of acute hospital services and an increasing number of specialist services to the growing population of Milton Keynes and the surrounding areas. With around 550 beds and employing more than 4,000 staff, the hospital sees and treats appropriately 400,000 patients each year comprising of both outpatient and emergency attendances."