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YOU can name city's £335m superhospital



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Published Date: 04 March 2008
Email Asha Mehta
HEALTH bosses are offering Evening Telegraph readers a unique chance to have a stake in the new super hospital and mental health unit by coining names for the two key buildings.
The steel scaffolding of the acute hospital is currently transforming the Bretton skyline and the completed building will open its doors in 2010 in the grounds of the Edith Cavell Hospital site.

The first phase of the mental health unit is set to be unveiled this November and, in a nod to the affection people feel for the old name, the whole site will eventually be called the Edith Cavell Healthcare Campus.

Therefore, the 612-bed hospital needs a different moniker – one that refers to its Peterborough home and succinctly captures its state-of-the-art facilities.

The 102-bed mental health unit needs a name for the building and for each of its four wards.

MAKE your suggestions by commenting below or email the editor at eteditor@peterboroughtoday.co.uk - all suggestions will be forward to the health trust.

Both projects are being built as part of the £335 million Greater Peterborough Health Investment Plan (GPHIP), together with Peterborough Primary Care Trust's Integrated Care Centre.

Now Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mental Health are asking readers to get involved.

Associate project director Angela Broekhuizen, said: "Patients and the provision of excellent patient care are at the heart of everything the hospitals trust and the mental health trust do so we are inviting Evening Telegraph readers to have a stake in the new hospital and new mental health unit by suggesting names for both of the new buildings.

"The project is progressing very swiftly and the buildings are really starting to take shape now."

A shortlist of the best suggestions for the new acute hospital will be considered by a panel made up of trust governors and members of the trust executive.

The winner will be featured in the members' newsletter and invited to the opening ceremony.

The name of the mental health unit and its wards will be chosen by a judging panel which includes service users, carers and voluntary organisations.

The author of the winning suggestion will be invited to the opening of both phase one and two and featured in the trust newsletter and on the website.

Both trusts would like people to become foundation trust members if they wish to suggest a name.

The full article contains 410 words and appears in Peterborough ET newspaper.
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  • Last Updated: 04 March 2008 12:27 PM
  • Source: Peterborough ET
  • Location: Peterborough
 
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woodcote,

Werrington 04/03/2008 13:06:21
The name 'The Memorial Hospital' has to retained in someway

The hospital was the original memorial to the dead of World WarI and fitting tribute to their sacrifice
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Joff,

Peterborough 04/03/2008 14:48:13
What about "The Hospital" or better still "Peterborough Hospital".
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anon1,

Crowland 04/03/2008 14:58:53
If it gets completed. I started work at Edith Cavell Hospital a couple of months before it opened, and stayed working there for over 10 years. At the time of it opening the plan was for casualty to move there within 2 years (that would have been 1990) and the site doubled in size and PDH closed within 10 years (1998). No doubt if and when this opens they will claim how fast it's been developed, hoping of course that everyone forgets they are already 10 years behind schedule. What will they do with it anyway, close half the wards like they did at ECH a few years after it opened.
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Lazy Daisy,

04/03/2008 15:51:32
Along the lines of the new Peterborough slogan, how about "Wait, swab, stitch"
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Old Peterborezzz,

04/03/2008 16:53:07
Something in Polish, surely?
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razor ,

04/03/2008 18:19:55
ha ha ha old peterborezz
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yasmobile,

saffron walden 04/03/2008 19:16:14
how about..................pitsbourgh hospital ..............as there are so many pits around peterbourgh...but it could be veiwed in another sense?
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yasmobile,

saffron walden 04/03/2008 19:21:39
http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/Three-wards-set-to-remain.3839786.jp

wont let you comment on above story...but this bug was going around addenbrookes in october, i no cus my wife daughter and i all got it..laid us up for 1 week.....sick as dogs.....someone must have given it a lift to peterbourgh..
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A eye,

Eye 04/03/2008 22:23:39
How about naming the super hospital 'The Super Bug Hospital' after all the hard work they are putting in to beat it
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Hissing Cyd,

05/03/2008 10:46:14
how about..................pitsbourgh hospital ..............as there are so many pits around peterbourgh...but it could be veiwed in another sense

You do not call those holes in the fens a pit do you.
Now coming from OOp t'North I can tell you about pits.
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