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Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS
Trust
Queen Alexandra Hospital started life more than a century ago as a military hospital. Today
it is one of the largest, most modern hospitals on the south coast, with 1,200 beds housed in
light, bright, infection resistant, en-suite wards.
With a turnover of £600m, we provide comprehensive secondary care and a number of specialist
services to a local population of 675,000 people across South East Hampshire. We also offer some
tertiary services to a wider catchment in excess of two million people. The Trust employs over 7300
staff and is the largest employer in Portsmouth.
Most services are provided at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Cosham. Included within the modern
buildings are:
• 28 theatres - with four dedicated endoscopy theatres and committed funding for a further 2
theatres
• Four state of the art linear accelerators
• Two purpose built interventional radiology suites, two MRI scanners, four CT scanners and a
PET scanner
• State of the art pathology laboratory
• Neonatal Unit, Level 3
• Hyper Acute Stroke Unit supporting the third largest stroke service in the country.
• Superb critical care facilities
• Second generation surgical robots – we have one of the largest robotic surgical programmes in
the UK.
Our Emergency Department is one of the busiest in the country treating in excess of 125,000 patients
each year. We also see over 625,000 outpatients and carry out over 61,000 elective procedures.
Our maternity services deliver around 5,300 babies per year, making it one of the largest maternity
services on the South Coast.
We are also home to the Wessex Renal and Transplant Unit and hold prestigious Cancer Beacon Status
for Head and Neck Cancer Services.
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