Hospital archive resources
Former Ipswich Hospital intensive care patients are taking steps on the road to recovery, at a group that also helps their families and loved ones. ICU Steps members meet every month at Bluebird Lodge, in Ipswich. They share stories of their illness, recovery, and experience of intensive care. ICU stands for intensive care unit. The… Read more »
Patients with heart failure can now have life-saving surgery at Ipswich Hospital, instead of having to travel to specialist centres in the region. ESNEFT’s cardiac team which works across Colchester and Ipswich can now fit biventricular pacemakers, something that previously could only be done at The Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge and Essex… Read more »
A 78-year-old daredevil is gearing up to abseil 135 feet down Ipswich Hospital’s towering Maternity Block to raise vital funds to thank staff for the care they provided to his wife. Rodney Bradbrook, who volunteers at Ipswich Hospital, will take part in the Colchester & Ipswich Hospitals Charity’s Extreme Abseil in July to raise… Read more »
The NHS celebrates its 75th anniversary on 5 July this year. It’s a time to celebrate our past, but more importantly, a time to think about the future. We want to take this opportunity to thank all NHS staff and volunteers, past and present, who have made the organisation what it is. We are celebrating… Read more »
A section of busy footpath near our Outpatients entrance at Ipswich Hospital will be closed for four days this week. The footpath which leads to one side of the entrance will be closed from today (Tuesday) until Friday (12 May). Pedestrians will be able to use a zebra-crossing and access the entrance via a footpath… Read more »
Patients and visitors are asked to bear with us as we temporarily close the loop road at the south end of our Ipswich Hospital site. The closure will allow for important road works ready for the opening of a new multi-million pound Accident and Emergency (A&E) department, Urgent Treatment Centre and an operating theatre hub…. Read more »
NHS Chief Executive Amanda Pritchard visited Ipswich Hospital on Friday to meet teams and officially open the new Breast Care Centre. The centre opened to patients earlier this year and the modern environment and equipment has transformed patient experience. Amanda met staff and fundraisers who helped the Colchester & Ipswich Hospitals Charity’s Blossom Appeal for… Read more »
Ipswich Hospital’s brand new state-of-the-art Breast Care Centre has today (Thursday 5 January) welcomed its first patients. The breast screening team was the first to begin using the multi-million pound facility, with the clinics and imaging department moving in over the next few weeks. The centre will transform the experience which patients have when… Read more »
Scrub nurse Rheza Rivas may have turned 70 but retiring is the last thing on her mind. A popular figure on the Ipswich Hospital Raedwald Day Surgery Unit and, before, in South Theatres, Rheza has no intention of leaving Suffolk and returning to her birthplace in the Philippines. She arrived at Ipswich Hospital in 2001… Read more »
You may have seen in the news that hospitals have been asked by NHS Blood & Transplant to protect blood stocks after supply levels dropped across the country. If you are coming to one of our hospitals, please make sure you attend your hospital appointment or operation date unless you hear from us to advise… Read more »
The new £5.3million Breast Care Centre at Ipswich Hospital is on track to be built this year. Colchester & Ipswich Hospitals Charity have confirmed they have just over £500,000 to raise for The Blossom Appeal and building work is due to commence on site in the spring. The new state-of-the-art centre is to be… Read more »
A footpath diversion will be in place in car park F at Ipswich Hospital for two weeks in December 2021 to help pedestrians while some building work takes place. This is the patient and visitor car park straight ahead as vehicles drive onto the hospital site from the main Heath Road entrance. From Wednesday… Read more »