Care system Public NHS Phone +44 1908 660033 | Lists Hospitals in England Number of beds 500 | |
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Location Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom Hospital type University Hospital and Foundation Trust Emergency department Yes Accident & Emergency Address Standing Way, Eaglestone, Milton Keynes MK6 5LD, UK Similar Northampton General Hospital, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, John Radcliffe Hospital, Wexham Park Hospital Profiles | ||
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Milton Keynes University Hospital is a district general hospital serving Milton Keynes, its borough and the surrounding area of north Buckinghamshire, south Northamptonshire and north-west Bedfordshire. It is located in the Eaglestone neighborhood, and opened in 1984. It is managed by Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. With the projected further growth of Milton Keynes and its population the hospital expects to be expanding its services over the next 20 years. The hospital falls within the area formerly administered by the South Central NHS Strategic Health Authority.
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History
Although Milton Keynes built up rapidly in the 1960s and 1970s, its growing population had to rely on Stoke Mandeville Hospital and Northampton General Hospital. A campaign "Milton Keynes is Dying for a Hospital" was mounted in the 1970s, leading to the construction of a four-ward community hospital that opened in 1979, followed by the construction of the main hospital. The new hospital opened in 1984, with a second phase being erected 1988-1992. Both phases of the hospital were opened by the Duchess of Kent. Further expansions, including a 60-bed treatment centre, followed in the early 21st century.
University teaching hospital
The Hospital Trust has agreed to provide clinical teaching facilities to the (private) University of Buckingham, and has renamed itself a 'University Hospital Trust' accordingly. The University's School of Medicine offers MBChB degrees and MD postgraduate degrees. In its first year of inviting applications, the University received 500 applications for its £35,000 a year undergraduate medicine course.
Services
The hospital provides all general services, with the exception of interventional cardiology, neurosurgery and cardiothoracic surgery. Dialysis services are provided by Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust in the form of a satellite unit.
Mental health services and community health services on the hospital site (at the Campbell Centre and Eaglestone Health Centre) are managed by Milton Keynes Community Health Services, which was acquired by Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust in April 2012.
"Milton Keynes Doctors on Call" (MKDOC) primary care services located on the hospital campus.
In 2007 the hospital announced it had been awarded NHS Foundation Trust status.
Performance
The Trust ended the 2012-13 financial year with a £8.8m deficit In December 2013 it was announced that Monitor was reviewing health services in Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes in an attempt to avert “significant problems ahead” in the local hospitals. A merger with Bedford Hospital has been mentioned as a possible way forward: in the meantime the Trust has not received the additional funding needed to cope with the rapid increase in population of Milton Keynes.
The Trust did poorly in the 2014 cancer patient experience survey and in February 2015 agreed to pair up with Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust, which did very well, in a scheme intended to “spread and accelerate innovative practice via peer to peer support and learning”. Following its inspection, the Care Quality Commission advised [March 2015] that the Trust 'requires improvement'.
It 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 2623 full time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.99%. 61% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 58% recommended it as a place to work.
In 2014/5 the trust was given a loan of £25.3 million by the Department of Health which is supposed to be paid back in five years. It spent £16.2 million, 9.7% of its total turnover, on agency staff in 2014/5.
Location
The Hospital is just south of central Milton Keynes, off Standing Way (A421, H8) near its junction with Marlborough Street (B4034, V8). It is well served by public transport.