West Suffolk Hospital

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West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust runs West Suffolk Hospital which is a large district general hospital in Bury St Edmunds, England. Founded in 1832, It provides a wide range of services to the population of west Suffolk and serves a catchment area of approximately 600 square miles with a population of around 275,000 people.HistoryWest Suffolk Hospital was founded in 1832, and moved to its current site in 1973. It became an NHS Trust in 1993. In 2002, the hospital was widely publicised as Myra Hindley had died there.Hospital servicesWest Suffolk includes Accident & Emergency, Maternity, Oncology and Palliative Care services.In June 2013, Frederick Hervey, 8th Marquess of Bristol, opened the new Friends of the Hospital shop.The trust is adopting the Cerner Millennium electronic patient record system, hoping to go live with the new system in October 2015.PerformanceIt was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 2604 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.86%. 78% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 76% recommended it as a place to work.In September 2016, the trust was selected by NHS England as one of twelve Global Digital Exemplars.