Bedford Hospital - Main Site (South Wing)

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.