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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.
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.
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