Our Trust has two main sites:Colchester General Hospital and Essex County Hospital. The Trust provides healthcare services to around 370,000 people from Colchester and the surrounding area of north east Essex.
Colchester General opened in 1984. There are 562 inpatient beds (general and anaesthetic), 44 maternity beds (including at Clacton and Harwich hospitals) and 13 critical care beds. (This doesn't include cots or A&E.)
Essex County was opened in 1820. In 2014 the Board of Directors announced its intention to transfer all services and departments off site to other health care sites in Colchester, mainly Colchester General and Colchester Primary Care Centre. Chemotherapy had already moved to the General in 2013 and the Radiotherapy Department relocated in 2014 to a brand-new £25m Radiotherapy Centre. Rhys Lewis and Jefferson wards moved to the newly-refurbished and extended West Bergholt Ward at the General site in 2014.
Pathology services and staff transferred in May 2017 from the Pathology Partnership (tPP) to North East Essex and Suffolk Pathology Services (NEESPS). NEESPS is hosted by our Trust and is a partnership of Colchester, Ipswich and West Suffolk hospitals and the vision is to deliver innovative high-performing pathology services that are clinically-led and responsive to the needs of our patients.
Although it is our strategy to centralise acute services at Colchester General, we also provide some services - such as outpatient and maternity services - at the community hospitals in Clacton and Harwich (run by Anglian Community Enterprise, or ACE) and Halstead Hospital (run by Provide, formerly Central Essex Community Services).
Show you care about the hospital services we provide. Complete a form online and become a member. Visit
http://www.colchesterhospital.nhs.uk/register.shtml
Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter!
Your health, your choices
