Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
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The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) is a National Health Service
academic teaching hospital
located on the Norwich Research Park off the A11 road and the Watton Road (B1108) on the southern outskirts of Norwich
, England
.
The university hospital replaced the former Norfolk and Norwich Hospital
, which was founded in 1771, and the West Norwich Hospital. The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital was built under the Private Finance Initiative
(PFI), and opened in late 2001: it has 987 acute beds and offers a wide range of NHS acute health services plus private patient facilities. It is one of the largest hospitals in the United Kingdom in terms of in-patient capacity. The hospital is part of the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The former West Norwich buildings continue in use as the Norwich Community hospital and some NNUH services are still operated from this site.
NNUH was the first new NHS
teaching hospital built in England for more than 30 years and the hospital trust is a joint venture partner in the University of East Anglia
School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice. The hospital is a teaching centre for nurses (adult and children's), midwives, doctors, therapists and operating department practitioners.
show. Site work started the following day (January 12, 1998). The project was the first large PFI hospital scheme in the NHS. In July 2000 approval was given to extend the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital with a second phase that included an additional 144 beds and took the project cost to £229 million. The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust pays the private PFI Octagon consortium in the region of £41 million a year . In 2004, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
assessed the actual costs at £1.16 billion, or around five times the initial cost of £229 million.
Project team:
The hospital was completed in August 2001, five months ahead of schedule, and on budget. The hospital won the Building Better Healthcare Award for Best Designed Hospital in September 2002. The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital was also highly commended in the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
Prime Minister's Better Public Building Award in 2002 .
was first introduced to the public sector under the Conservative government of John Major and the contract for NNUH, one of the first PFI hospitals, was signed in 1996. The level of subsequent potential risks and costs borne by the public sector was thought by some critics of the deal to be unacceptably high. In 2006 Edward Leigh
, Conservative Member of Parliament
(MP) and chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, appropriated a famous Edward Heath
quote (originally used with reference to Tiny Rowland
of Lonrho International) to describe the Department of Health's approach to a refinancing deal for the NNUH PFI:
The hospital neighbours the constituency of South Norfolk MP Richard Bacon
, also a member of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr. Bacon wrote about the financing of the hospital on his website; "The Department of Health would not allow the hospital to include a refinancing clause in the original contract. This meant the hospital had no right to receive any proceeds from the refinancing at all, let alone the 29% share it eventually secured. And that right was only obtained by taking on huge extra potential liabilities."
In 2006/07, the trust projected a savings target of £14.8 million but recorded a surplus of £867,000 by the end of the same financial year.. In 2007, the Audit Commission's "Review of the NHS financial year 2006/07" reported that the trust was delivering the best financial management of any NHS Trust in the country
In 2006, the Public Accounts Committee released report into the PFI refinancing conducted by the private Octagon Healthcare consortium involved in building the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital of "lining investors' pockets" and putting the trust at increased financial risk. The report noted that the consortium was receiving an over £80 million pound windfall from the deal, and the National Audit Office
said that the windfall was the third it had uncovered after complaints from MPs and the public.
in terms of deaths from the superbug. In 2006 an outbreak of a community-acquired infection Methicillin Sensitive Staphylococcus Aureus on the neonatal intensive care unit at the hospital, resulted in five babies carrying the organism and possibly contributing to the death of one baby.
The hospital was placed on black alert in November 2007 when it ran out of beds for a time. Ambulances were forced to queue outside the building while non-urgent patients were discharged to free up beds and a major incident emergency plan implemented.
In March 2011 several wards in the hospital were closed as a result of an outbreak of the community infection Norovirus.
In 2011, a Care Quality Commission
inspection found that the hospital was in the moderate concern category with regards to nutritional screening. The inspection report stated "People who use the service can be assured that they will be provided with respect, dignity and privacy by the staff during their stay in hospital. However, we observed that some improvements were needed".
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The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital has been visited by a number of notable people in public life;
- September 1998, Secretary of State for Health Frank Dobson
unveiled a plaque marking foundation work on the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
- September 2001, Health Minister Lord Hunt of Kings Heath attended the handover ceremony where the keys to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital were given to the trust by the builders
- May 2002, Prime Minister Tony Blair
visited the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and was shown a pioneering Radiology
digital imaging system and visited the Coronary Care Unit
- December 2002, food critic and TV presenter Loyd Grossman
visited the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital to raise awareness of the importance of good hospital food
- December 2002, Actor Chris Rankin
, who plays Percy Weasley in the Harry Potter
films, visited the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital’s children’s ward to help spread the hand hygiene message.
- January 2003, Norway
's ambassador to the UK, Tarald Brautaset, visited the medical school complex at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in a visit marking links with the county and the Trondheim area of Norway.
- September 2003 National cancer director Professor Mike Richards formally opened the £20 million Colney Centre for Oncology and Haematology patients at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.
- February 2004, The Queen formally opened the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, visiting Medicine for the Elderly patients and staff on Holt
ward and meeting staff in the Radiology department
- March 2004, President of the Royal College of Physicians
Professor Dame Carol Black visited the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital's pioneering Emergency Assessment Unit
- May 2004, Health Minister Rosie Winterton
visited patients and staff in the hospital's Critical Care Complex and Emergency Assessment Unit
- February 2006, President of the Royal College of Radiologists
Professor Janet Husband formally opened the Norwich Radiology Academy
in the Cotman Centre
- May 2006, the Department of Health's Chief Medical Officer
Sir Liam Donaldson visited the Norwich Radiology Academy
to meet the radiology academy team and trainees
- June 2006, Secretary of State for Health Patricia Hewitt
visited the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital to meet staff and union representatives
- June 2007, Journalist and TV presenter Esther Rantzen
visited the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital to promote the use of the Liverpool Care of the Dying Pathway
for terminal patients
- July 2007, Actors Stephen Fry
and Richard Briers
took part in location filming for the second series of Kingdom
(ITV
) at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
- November 2007, the Archbishop of Canterbury
, the Most Rev Dr Rowan Williams
, visited the hospital's Chaplaincy team and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- January 2009, Neighbours
actress Caitlin Stasey
, appearing at the Theatre Royal, Norwich
, in the pantomime Snow White, visited the children's ward at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
- March 2009, The Bishop of Thetford
, the Right Revd David John Atkinson
, visited the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital's renal unit. Rhonwen Washford, one of the staff nurses on Langley Ward at the NNUH, had recently been ordained and the Bishop had expressed an interest in her work at the hospital
National Health Service
The National Health Service is the shared name of three of the four publicly funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom. They provide a comprehensive range of health services, the vast majority of which are free at the point of use to residents of the United Kingdom...
academic teaching hospital
Teaching hospital
A teaching hospital is a hospital that provides clinical education and training to future and current doctors, nurses, and other health professionals, in addition to delivering medical care to patients...
located on the Norwich Research Park off the A11 road and the Watton Road (B1108) on the southern outskirts of Norwich
Norwich
Norwich is a city in England. It is the regional administrative centre and county town of Norfolk. During the 11th century, Norwich was the largest city in England after London, and one of the most important places in the kingdom...
, England
England
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.
The university hospital replaced the former Norfolk and Norwich Hospital
Norfolk and Norwich Hospital
The Norfolk and Norwich Hospital [7] was founded in 1771 as a charitable institution for the care of "the poor and the sick" and was established by William Fellowes and Benjamin Gooch...
, which was founded in 1771, and the West Norwich Hospital. The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital was built under the Private Finance Initiative
Private Finance Initiative
The private finance initiative is a way of creating "public–private partnerships" by funding public infrastructure projects with private capital...
(PFI), and opened in late 2001: it has 987 acute beds and offers a wide range of NHS acute health services plus private patient facilities. It is one of the largest hospitals in the United Kingdom in terms of in-patient capacity. The hospital is part of the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The former West Norwich buildings continue in use as the Norwich Community hospital and some NNUH services are still operated from this site.
NNUH was the first new NHS
National Health Service (England)
The National Health Service or NHS is the publicly funded healthcare system in England. It is both the largest and oldest single-payer healthcare system in the world. It is able to function in the way that it does because it is primarily funded through the general taxation system, similar to how...
teaching hospital built in England for more than 30 years and the hospital trust is a joint venture partner in the University of East Anglia
University of East Anglia
The University of East Anglia is a public research university based in Norwich, United Kingdom. It was established in 1963, and is a founder-member of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities.-History:...
School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice. The hospital is a teaching centre for nurses (adult and children's), midwives, doctors, therapists and operating department practitioners.
Construction
On January 11, 1998, Prime Minister Tony Blair announced the go-ahead for the construction of a £214 million, 809 bed, new hospital in a broadcast from Tokyo on the BBC's Breakfast with FrostBreakfast with Frost
Breakfast with Frost was a talk show hosted by Sir David Frost on the BBC on Sunday mornings. The news presenter was Moira Stuart. The show ran for more than 12 years and exactly 500 editions between 3 January 1993 and 29 May 2005...
show. Site work started the following day (January 12, 1998). The project was the first large PFI hospital scheme in the NHS. In July 2000 approval was given to extend the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital with a second phase that included an additional 144 beds and took the project cost to £229 million. The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust pays the private PFI Octagon consortium in the region of £41 million a year . In 2004, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
Founded in 1904, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants is the global body for professional accountants offering the Chartered Certified Accountant qualification . it is one of the largest and fastest-growing global accountancy bodies with 147,000 members and 424,000 students in 170...
assessed the actual costs at £1.16 billion, or around five times the initial cost of £229 million.
Project team:
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(Architect) - John Laing plc (Main contractor)
- WSP GroupWSP GroupWSP Group plc is a British-based business providing management and consultancy services to the built and natural environment. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a former constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.-History:...
(Structural Engineer) - Hoare LeaHoare LeaHoare Lea is a firm of consulting engineers specialising in mechanical, electrical and environmental engineering...
(Services Engineer) - Serco (Maintenance/support services)
The hospital was completed in August 2001, five months ahead of schedule, and on budget. The hospital won the Building Better Healthcare Award for Best Designed Hospital in September 2002. The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital was also highly commended in the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment was an executive non-departmental public body of the UK government, established in 1999. It was funded by both the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Communities and Local Government.-Function:CABE was the...
Prime Minister's Better Public Building Award in 2002 .
Controversy
The controversial Private Finance InitiativePrivate Finance Initiative
The private finance initiative is a way of creating "public–private partnerships" by funding public infrastructure projects with private capital...
was first introduced to the public sector under the Conservative government of John Major and the contract for NNUH, one of the first PFI hospitals, was signed in 1996. The level of subsequent potential risks and costs borne by the public sector was thought by some critics of the deal to be unacceptably high. In 2006 Edward Leigh
Edward Leigh
Edward Julian Egerton Leigh is a British Conservative politician. He has sat in the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Gainsborough in Lincolnshire since 1997, and for its predecessor constituency of Gainsborough and Horncastle between 1983 and 1997...
, Conservative Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
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(MP) and chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, appropriated a famous Edward Heath
Edward Heath
Sir Edward Richard George "Ted" Heath, KG, MBE, PC was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and as Leader of the Conservative Party ....
quote (originally used with reference to Tiny Rowland
Tiny Rowland
Roland "Tiny" Rowland was a British businessman and chairman of the Lonrho conglomerate from 1962 to 1994...
of Lonrho International) to describe the Department of Health's approach to a refinancing deal for the NNUH PFI:
"It is hard to escape the conclusion that the public sector staff managing the project were not up to the rough and tumble of negotiating refinancing proposals with the private sector ... The unacceptable face of capitalism."
The hospital neighbours the constituency of South Norfolk MP Richard Bacon
Richard Bacon (politician)
Richard Michael Bacon is a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament for the South Norfolk constituency.-Early life:...
, also a member of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr. Bacon wrote about the financing of the hospital on his website; "The Department of Health would not allow the hospital to include a refinancing clause in the original contract. This meant the hospital had no right to receive any proceeds from the refinancing at all, let alone the 29% share it eventually secured. And that right was only obtained by taking on huge extra potential liabilities."
In 2006/07, the trust projected a savings target of £14.8 million but recorded a surplus of £867,000 by the end of the same financial year.. In 2007, the Audit Commission's "Review of the NHS financial year 2006/07" reported that the trust was delivering the best financial management of any NHS Trust in the country
In 2006, the Public Accounts Committee released report into the PFI refinancing conducted by the private Octagon Healthcare consortium involved in building the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital of "lining investors' pockets" and putting the trust at increased financial risk. The report noted that the consortium was receiving an over £80 million pound windfall from the deal, and the National Audit Office
National Audit Office (United Kingdom)
The National Audit Office is an independent Parliamentary body in the United Kingdom which is responsible for auditing central government departments, government agencies and non-departmental public bodies...
said that the windfall was the third it had uncovered after complaints from MPs and the public.
Healthcare associated infections and black alerts
Between 2002 and 2006 the hospital saw 65 patients die from MRSA, making it one of the ten worst hospitals in the United KingdomUnited Kingdom
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in terms of deaths from the superbug. In 2006 an outbreak of a community-acquired infection Methicillin Sensitive Staphylococcus Aureus on the neonatal intensive care unit at the hospital, resulted in five babies carrying the organism and possibly contributing to the death of one baby.
The hospital was placed on black alert in November 2007 when it ran out of beds for a time. Ambulances were forced to queue outside the building while non-urgent patients were discharged to free up beds and a major incident emergency plan implemented.
In March 2011 several wards in the hospital were closed as a result of an outbreak of the community infection Norovirus.
In 2011, a Care Quality Commission
Care Quality Commission
The Care Quality Commission is a non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom government established in 2009 to regulate and inspect health and social care services in England. This includes services provided by the NHS, local authorities, private companies and voluntary organisations -...
inspection found that the hospital was in the moderate concern category with regards to nutritional screening. The inspection report stated "People who use the service can be assured that they will be provided with respect, dignity and privacy by the staff during their stay in hospital. However, we observed that some improvements were needed".
People and NNUH
- September 1998, Secretary of State for Health Frank Dobson
Frank Dobson
Frank Gordon Dobson, is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Holborn and St. Pancras since 1979...
unveiled a plaque marking foundation work on the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
- September 2001, Health Minister Lord Hunt of Kings Heath attended the handover ceremony where the keys to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital were given to the trust by the builders
- May 2002, Prime Minister Tony Blair
Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...
visited the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and was shown a pioneering Radiology
Radiology
Radiology is a medical specialty that employs the use of imaging to both diagnose and treat disease visualized within the human body. Radiologists use an array of imaging technologies to diagnose or treat diseases...
digital imaging system and visited the Coronary Care Unit
Coronary care unit
A coronary care unit is a hospital ward specialized in the care of patients with heart attacks, unstable angina, Cardiac dysrhythmia and various other cardiac conditions that require continuous monitoring and treatment.-Characteristics:...
- December 2002, food critic and TV presenter Loyd Grossman
Loyd Grossman
Loyd Daniel Gilman Grossman, OBE, FSA is an American-British television presenter, chef and musician who has mainly worked in the UK.- Early life, education and honours :...
visited the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital to raise awareness of the importance of good hospital food
- December 2002, Actor Chris Rankin
Chris Rankin
Christopher William "Chris" Rankin is an actor who is best known for playing Percy Weasley in the Harry Potter films.-Early life:...
, who plays Percy Weasley in the Harry Potter
Harry Potter
Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry...
films, visited the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital’s children’s ward to help spread the hand hygiene message.
- January 2003, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
's ambassador to the UK, Tarald Brautaset, visited the medical school complex at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in a visit marking links with the county and the Trondheim area of Norway.
- September 2003 National cancer director Professor Mike Richards formally opened the £20 million Colney Centre for Oncology and Haematology patients at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.
- February 2004, The Queen formally opened the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, visiting Medicine for the Elderly patients and staff on Holt
Holt
- Natural world :* Holt, an otter den* Holt, an occasional name for a fox den* Holt, an area of woodland, e.g. a grove or copse, especially as a place-name in Great Britain, Scandinavia, Iceland, and Germany...
ward and meeting staff in the Radiology department
- March 2004, President of the Royal College of Physicians
Royal College of Physicians
The Royal College of Physicians of London was founded in 1518 as the College of Physicians by royal charter of King Henry VIII in 1518 - the first medical institution in England to receive a royal charter...
Professor Dame Carol Black visited the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital's pioneering Emergency Assessment Unit
- May 2004, Health Minister Rosie Winterton
Rosie Winterton
Rosalie "Rosie" Winterton is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Doncaster Central since 1997. Formerly a minister within both the Blair and Brown Governments, she first entered the Shadow Cabinet in May 2010 as the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons...
visited patients and staff in the hospital's Critical Care Complex and Emergency Assessment Unit
- February 2006, President of the Royal College of Radiologists
Royal College of Radiologists
The Royal College of Radiologists is the professional body responsible for the specialty of clinical oncology and clinical radiology throughout the United Kingdom. Its role is to advance the science and practice of radiology and oncology, further public education and set appropriate professional...
Professor Janet Husband formally opened the Norwich Radiology Academy
Norwich Radiology Academy
The Norwich Radiology Academy, which opened in November 2005 and is part of the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust, is one of only three training centres in England specially created for training consultant radiologists....
in the Cotman Centre
- May 2006, the Department of Health's Chief Medical Officer
Chief Medical Officer
There are four Chief Medical Officers in the United Kingdom who are appointed to advise their respective governments on health related matters: Her Majesty's Government, the Northern Ireland Executive, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Assembly Government...
Sir Liam Donaldson visited the Norwich Radiology Academy
Norwich Radiology Academy
The Norwich Radiology Academy, which opened in November 2005 and is part of the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust, is one of only three training centres in England specially created for training consultant radiologists....
to meet the radiology academy team and trainees
- June 2006, Secretary of State for Health Patricia Hewitt
Patricia Hewitt
Patricia Hope Hewitt is an Australian-born British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Leicester West from 1997 until 2010. She served in the Cabinet until 2007, most recently as Health Secretary....
visited the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital to meet staff and union representatives
- June 2007, Journalist and TV presenter Esther Rantzen
Esther Rantzen
Esther Louise Rantzen CBE is an English journalist and television presenter who is best known for presenting the BBC television series That's Life!, and for her work in various charitable causes. She is founder of the child protection charity ChildLine, and also advocates the work of the Burma...
visited the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital to promote the use of the Liverpool Care of the Dying Pathway
Liverpool Care of the Dying Pathway
The Liverpool Care Pathway for the dying patient is an outline of care which a patient can expect in the final days and hours of life, which also becomes a structured record of the actions and outcomes that develop...
for terminal patients
- July 2007, Actors Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He first came to attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also...
and Richard Briers
Richard Briers
Richard David Briers, CBE is an English actor whose career has encompassed theatre, television, film and radio.He first came to prominence as George Starling in Marriage Lines in the 1960s, but it was in the following decade when he played Tom Good in the BBC sitcom The Good Life that he became a...
took part in location filming for the second series of Kingdom
Kingdom (TV series)
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(ITV
ITV
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) at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
- November 2007, the Archbishop of Canterbury
Archbishop of Canterbury
The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group...
, the Most Rev Dr Rowan Williams
Rowan Williams
Rowan Douglas Williams FRSL, FBA, FLSW is an Anglican bishop, poet and theologian. He is the 104th and current Archbishop of Canterbury, Metropolitan of the Province of Canterbury and Primate of All England, offices he has held since early 2003.Williams was previously Bishop of Monmouth and...
, visited the hospital's Chaplaincy team and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Neonatal intensive care unit
A Neonatal Intensive Care Unit —also called a Special Care Nursery, newborn intensive care unit, intensive care nursery , and special care baby unit —is an intensive care unit specializing in the care of ill or premature newborn infants.The problem of premature and congenitally ill infants is not a...
- January 2009, Neighbours
Neighbours
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actress Caitlin Stasey
Caitlin Stasey
Caitlin Jean Stasey is an Australian actress from Melbourne, who is best known for her previous role as Rachel Kinski in Neighbours. Previously she played Francesca Thomas in The Sleepover Club...
, appearing at the Theatre Royal, Norwich
Theatre Royal, Norwich
The Theatre Royal is the largest theatre in Norwich, Norfolk, England. It presents a large range of drama, dance, comedy, music and other entertainment...
, in the pantomime Snow White, visited the children's ward at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
- March 2009, The Bishop of Thetford
Bishop of Thetford
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, the Right Revd David John Atkinson
David John Atkinson
The Rt Rev. David John Atkinson is the former Bishop of Thetford. He was born on 5 September 1943 and educated at Maidstone Grammar School and King's College London. After a short career as a chemistry teacher he was ordained in 1973...
, visited the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital's renal unit. Rhonwen Washford, one of the staff nurses on Langley Ward at the NNUH, had recently been ordained and the Bishop had expressed an interest in her work at the hospital