Broomfield Hospital is an acute district general hospital in

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. It is managed by the

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History

The hospital, originally known as Essex County Hospital, was designed as a hospital for the treatment of

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patients and was built between June 1937 and 1940. It had "butterfly" wings that caught the sun for the benefit of the patients. During the 1960s the hospital diversified from tuberculosis treatment and dealt with more

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and general medicine. A large outpatients clinic was also built at this time. By the early 1980s facilities included an

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, rehabilitation department,

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s, intensive therapy unit and new specialised wards. A CT Scanner was unveiled by the

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in 1987 and she returned to open a new ward block in 1987. A new East Wing, a new Diabetic Centre and a new Medical Assessment Unit were all opened between 1998 and 1999. Further new facilities, including a new accident and emergency facility, new intensive care facilities, new theatres for day surgery, a new pathology department, a new maternity department, improved facilities for neo-natal intensive care, a new children's department and a rooftop helipad were procured under a

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contract in 2007. The works, which were designed by Llewelyn Davies and carried out by

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at a cost of £180 million, were completed in 2010. The new facilities also permitted the subsequent closure of St John's Hospital in Chelmsford and the William Julien Courtauld Hospital in Braintree. Sam Penry, a diagnostic radiographer at the hospital, was awarded the "UK Radiographer of the Year" title by the

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in 2017.

Teaching

The hospital serves as a teaching hospital for medical students from

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. More recently, Broomfield was affiliated with Anglia Ruskin School of Medicine.

References

External links

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Broomfield Hospital on the NHS website

Inspection reports
from the

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History

Teaching

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