One of Europe’s top hospitals has opened in Coventry

One of Europe’s top hospitals is now open signaling the beginning of a new era in healthcare for the people of Coventry and Warwickshire.

The new University ‘super’ hospital’ in Coventry is an NHS Hospital with clean modern facilities which rival the best private hospitals. The hospital boasts 250 top specialists in heart care, stroke, joint replacements, diabetes and cancer care to name a just a few and has low waiting times for operations and appointments. The 1250 bed hospital is also equipped with many pieces of equipment that are so advanced only a few exist within the NHS and has 27 operating theatres.

Caring staff, a warm welcome and ensuite rooms with bedside TV and phone await patients and their visitors

So what's different in the new University 'super' hospital'?

• Bright and airy wards with natural light flooding in and views of the Warwickshire countryside
• 50,000 pieces of new equipment including the first PET scanner outside of London. The machine is the latest in cutting edge technology and will be used in cancer diagnosis and treatment. Costing £1.6 million, the PET CT scanner will be amongst only a handful of its kind in the UK and will bring an end to cancer patients travelling to London for a specialist scan
• stringent infection control - with over 8,000 hand basins every ward area has a sink placed at the entrance to every bay for staff and visitors to wash their hands and help reduce risk of infection
• The largest centre for 'living donor kidney transplants' in the NHS
• A Emergency Department for children and overnight accommodation for parents
• A purpose built helicopter pad will mean that Coventry and Warwickshire air ambulance will be able to bring patients to the hospital for specialist treatment
• Patient entertainment systems at every bedside equipped with TV, radio and internet access
• X-rays results and scans at the touch of a button thanks to Picture archiving and Communications Systems (PACS)
• A new uniform exchange system nurses will be able to put on a clean, laundered uniform everyday and get changed in purpose built changing rooms.