Peterborough and Stamford NHS Trust
This includes management of Peterborough District hospital (PDH), Edith Cavell Hospital (ECH), and Stamford and Rutland hospital.
Radiographers rotate between the different sites, providing services in General imaging, interventional procedures, Ultrasound, MRI , CT scanning, Breast Imaging and Nuclear Medicine.
Currently PDH has 357 beds. Its facilities include five main operating theatres, a eight-bed intensive care unit, a hyperbaric oxygen unit, a day surgery unit, accident and emergency department, an endoscopy unit, and a dental and opthamology wing, incorporating its own operating theatres. There is a separate 62 bed maternity unit with two theatres and a Special Care Baby unit with intensive care facilities comprising a total of 16 cots.
ECH was opened in 1988 on a site approximately 2 miles from Peterborough District Hospital. Bed complement is 153, comprising isolation, medicine for the elderly, general surgical, urological, adult and paediatric ENT, orthopaedic, day surgery beds and a 29 bed nurse led rehabilitation unit. They also have a hyperbaric day surgery at ECH. Stamford and Rutland Hospital is much smaller with 24 beds and one operating theatre.
The Radiology Department
Peterborough Radiology department is very forward thinking with many opportunities in extended role for both assistants and radiographers.
Over the last few years, some major developments have occurred within our radiology department. One of the major transitions is the move away from printing films. Images are produced digitally or by computerised radiography and they are viewed via a Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS), enabling images to be stored electronically and viewed on computers in different areas of the hospital. Newer equipment installed includes a cardiac angiography suite, digital and computerised radiography units (inc dental). A 2nd CT scanner has been installed ‘Toshiba 64 Slice scanner’.
Students enjoy working at Peterborough and praise staff for teaching, support and the experience gained. Because there are less students, they are given excellent opportunities to gain hands on experience in all areas. Students often choose to work for the Trust upon gaining their qualification.
Hospital Accommodation
The accommodation is within walking distance of PDH. There is a large tower block of flats and other buildings surrounding the area. The rooms are clean and provided with sinks. There’s a kitchen and shower for use between four, but no shared living room.
New buiding developments
Peterborough City Hospital is being built on the Edith Cavell site and will include 612 inpatient beds, an emergency care centre, a high-tech diagnostics unit, women and children’s unit, cancer unit, specialist rehabilitation unit, renal dialysis and a multi-disciplinary training centre. It is due to open in 2010.
In addition to the major development work, the 102-bed Cavell Centre, run by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, on the Edith Cavell Hospital site includes adult acute, psychiatric intensive care and older people's units and services for people with learning disabilities unit, centralised dining, fitness, recreational and staff facilities and garden areas. The first phase opened in November 2008 and the second phase opened in April 2009.
The City Care Centre, run by Peterborough Primary Care Trust is on the site of the former Fenland Wing at Peterborough District Hospital. It includes 34 specialist rehabilitation beds, a pharmacy, outpatient diagnostic and treatment centre, general rehabilitation services and children’s care centre. It opened in May 2009.
Why choose Peterborough?
Peterborough is mid-way between the East Anglian coast and the Midlands and has excellent road and rail connections both north-south and east-west. By train the city is only 1 hour from London, 50 minutes from Cambridge and 1 hour from Nottingham and Leicester.
Peterborough has a magnificent Norman cathedral. This became the burial place in 1536 of Katharine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII.
An area of nearly 200 hectares which lies in a bend of the River Nene at Milton Ferry Bridge.
Peterborough centre has a busy nightlife, with numerous restaurants, late night bars and night clubs. The Key Theatre (riverside) and the Broadway Theatre are based in the city centre. There are cinemas, bowling alleys and an ice rink also located in the city centre.