| Hexham General Hospital | |
| Org/Group: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Location: | Hexham |
| Region: | Northumberland |
| State: | England |
| Country: | UK |
| Healthcare: | National Health Service |
| Type: | District General |
| Emergency: | No |
| Founded: | 1940 |
| Map Type: | Northumberland |
| Coordinates: | 54.9692°N -2.0945°W |
Hexham General Hospital is an acute general hospital in Hexham, Northumberland, England. It is managed by the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
The hospital has its origins in a facility built to treat wounded soldiers during the Second World War.[1] It opened in 1940 and joined the National Health Service in 1948.[2] At that time the hospital management took the opportunity to acquire the old workhouse buildings on an adjacent site to create administrative facilities for the hospital.[3]
A new hospital was procured under a Private Finance Initiative ('PFI') contract in 2001. It was designed by Jonathan Bailey Associates and built by Bovis Lend Lease[4] at a cost of £54 million.[5] It was officially opened by Tony Blair, Prime Minister, in January 2004.[6] In June 2014, the Trust announced that it had borrowed sufficient funds from Northumberland County Council at a low rate of interest to pay off the consortium who had developed the hospital and buy itself out of the PFI contract.[7] [8]