Updated 18 December 2019
James Paget University Hospital provides care to a population of 230,000 residents across Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Waveney, as well as to the many visitors who come to this part of East Anglia. The trust’s main site in Gorleston is supported by the Newberry Clinic and other outreach clinics in the local area.
James Paget Hospital officially opened in July 1982. It was established as a third wave NHS trust in April 1993 and became a Foundation Trust in August 2006.
The trust provides a full range of general acute services plus a number of specialised services; including a hyperbaric chamber for ventilating and monitoring critically ill patients whilst they are receiving hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The trust works collaboratively with local primary care colleagues, community services and other acute trusts, to ensure that patients receive the best care in the right place.
The trust has around 500 inpatient beds located in James Paget University Hospital. These are a mix of critical, intensive and high dependency care, general surgery and medicine, maternity, paediatrics and neonatal, and escalation beds used when the trust is experiencing high demand and needs to deal with an increased number of patients needing care.
The trust employs over 3,000 staff, both part and full time, making them the largest local employer in the area. As a university hospital, the trust also trains over one third of the medical students from the University of East Anglia.