THE TRUST

The East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust comprises of two acute teaching hospitals: Ipswich Hospital and Colchester Hospital. Previously two separate trusts, formed together on 1st July 2018. We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia and several of our clinical services are among the largest in England: acute children’s services, oncology, trauma and orthopaedics, general surgery, urology and ophthalmology.

Both hospitals provide many of the same acute services for their local communities, providing healthcare to almost 1 million people. Most specialities have their own separate teams at each hospital, with ENT and Vascular providing a shared service across both sites. In addition to our acute hospitals, we also provide care from Aldeburgh, Clacton, Halstead, Harwich and Felixstowe community hospitals and Bluebird Lodge.

Ipswich Hospital

Ipswich Hospital is a large district general hospital providing acute hospital services to nearly 400 000 people who live and work in Ipswich and East Suffolk. The hospital has just over 550 beds.

There is an excellent Post-Graduate medical centre, housed in a purposebuilt unit at the hospital, with a wellstocked medical library and simulation suite.

Ipswich Hospital is part of the Comprehensive Local Research Network for Norfolk and Suffolk with a particular strength in research on Cancer, Diabetes and Rheumatology.

Colchester Hospital

Colchester Hospital is a large district general hospital providing hospital services to a surrounding population of nearly 370 000 people. The hospital has just over 760 beds.

There is an onsite state of the art surgical simulation center (the ICENI center) which is widely recognized by healthcare professionals across the country and internationally.

Colchester Hospital has a number of large developments taking place, including the building of a dedicated orthopedic center.