Wycombe Hospital

The original hospital built on Marlow Hill was the "High Wycombe War Memorial Hospital" which opened in 1923 and was extended in 1932.{{cite web|url=http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/02/a-brief-history-wycombe-hospital/|title=A brief history of Wycombe Hospital|first=Steve|last=Baker|accessdate=2 April 2018}} The current hospital, Wycombe Hospital, was built in phases on a site adjacent to the old Memorial Hospital with Phase 1 being completed in 1966, Phase 2 being completed in 1969 and Phase 3 being completed in 1971. An extension to the hospital was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in the late 1990s.{{Cite web|url=http://www.medicalarchitecture.com/projects/wycombe-general-hospital/|title=Wycombe General Hospital|publisher=Medical Architecture|accessdate=2 April 2018}} The construction work was carried out by Taylor Woodrow and completed in 2000 as part of a scheme across the South Buckinghamshire hospitals at a cost of some £45 million.{{cite web|url=http://www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca/wp-content/uploads/PART-1-January-July-1999.pdf|title=NHS capital expenditure and the private finance initiative—expansion or contraction?|page=49|publisher=British Medical Journal|date=3 July 1999|accessdate=1 April 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/first-private-hospitals-for-nhs-1583845.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/first-private-hospitals-for-nhs-1583845.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=First private hospitals for NHS|date=27 November 1995|publisher=The Independent|accessdate=2 April 2018}}{{cbignore}}

The Accident and Emergency department was closed in 2005. A midwife-led birthing centre replaced the maternity unit and other services have been moved to the other hospitals run by the Trust. A campaign called Hand Back Our Hospital is attempting to restore services at the hospital.{{cite news|title=Britain's Got Talent star delivers Save Wycombe Hospital mosaic to Downing Street - minus his puppet|url=http://www.getbucks.co.uk/news/local-news/britains-talent-star-delivers-save-8085602|accessdate=25 December 2014|publisher=Get Bucks|date=10 November 2014}} More than 6000 people have signed a petition calling for the restoration of the casualty department.{{cite news|title=Thousands sign petition to resurrect High Wycombe A&E centre|url=http://www.getbucks.co.uk/news/local-news/thousands-sign-petition-resurrect-high-7831931|accessdate=25 December 2014|publisher=Get Bucks|date=25 September 2014}} Wycombe MP Steve Baker commissioned a report from the Durrow healthcare consultancy in 2014. This suggested that the hospital could be used for a "new generation" of casualty unit with an ambulance station integrated into the hospital and could offer GP appointments.{{cite news|title=Report calls for 'new kind of casualty' at Wycombe Hospital|url=http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/11513832.Report_calls_for__new_kind_of_casualty__at_Wycombe_Hospital/?ref=mr|accessdate=25 December 2014|publisher=Bucks Free Press|date=3 October 2014}}

On 25 September 2006, Wycombe Hospital was one of the first hospitals to change their patient administration system to the National Programme for IT's Care Records Service.{{cite web|url=https://www.nao.org.uk/report/department-of-health-the-national-programme-for-it-in-the-nhs/|title=Department of Health: The National Programme for IT in the NHS|publisher=National Audit Office|date=16 June 2006|accessdate=2 April 2018}}

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