Ipswich Hospital
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For the Ipswich Hospital in Australia see Ipswich Hospital, Queensland
Ipswich Hospital, Queensland
Ipswich Hospital, in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, is a medium outer metropolitan teaching hospital affiliated with University of Queensland...


The Ipswich Hospital is a large district general hospital in Suffolk
Suffolk
Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. It provides a wide range of services to the population of east Suffolk
Suffolk
Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...

 and serves a catchment area of approximately 360,000 people.

It is a busy district general hospital providing a wide range of emergency, medical, surgical and maternity services to its users. The hospital is currently working towards becoming a NHS Foundation Trust.

The future of the hospital has become issues in local politics, with campaigns to keep cancer and heart services in the hospital, with the Conservative candidate for the General election, Ben Gummer claiming that his "first priority is to save Ipswich Hospital".


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