West Cornwall Hospital

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West Cornwall Hospital
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
Geography
Location Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Organisation
Care system NHS
Hospital type General Hospital
Affiliated university None
Services
Emergency department Yes, Emergency Nurse Practitioner service overnight.
Beds 80
Links
Website http://www.cornwall.nhs.uk/RCHT/Home.aspx
Lists Hospitals in the United Kingdom

West Cornwall Hospital is located in St. Clare street in Penzance.

Services/Wards

Urgent Care Centre

  • Triage
  • Four cubicles
  • Plaster room
  • Resuscitation Room

Medical Admissions Unit

  • 22 Beds
  • 4 bedded High Dependency Unit
  • Portable Cardiac monitoring
  • Exercise tolerance test services

Medical Ward Two

  • 28 Beds
  • Medical and Rehabilitation
  • Care of the Elderly services

Surgical Unit

  • 26 Beds
  • Catering for general surgery
  • Day cases

Theatres

  • Two Operating Theatres
  • Recovery Unit
  • CSSD

Day Case Unit

  • Caters for medical and surgical patients requiring day care, freeing up general beds for longer stays and more high dependent care

Renal Medicine Unit

  • Day Dialysis and renal care

X-Ray and Ultrasound

  • Twenty-four-hour cover for urgent and non urgent x-rays
  • CT Scanner
  • Ultrasounds by referral

Outpatients

  • Outpatient appointments area
  • Specialities include surgical, medical, children's medicine and chiropody

Therapy Department

  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physiotherapy
  • Dietetics
  • Speech and Language Therapy

See also

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