The Great Western Hospital
Marlborough Road
Swindon
SN3 6BB
Tel: +44(0)1793 604020
www.gwhswindon.org.uk
The Great Western Hospital is a modern district general hospital providing emergency care, surgery, diagnostics, paediatrics, maternity, out patient and day case services. ALL Accident & Emergencies will be dealt by the Great Western Hospital. The new buildings are superbly designed and equipped and offer a first class environment for patients, visitors and staff, with over 30% of our beds provided in single rooms with en-suite facilities. With more than 600 beds the Great Western offers a range of services and facilities from a busy Emergency Department boasting one of the best helipads in the country, a dynamic radiology department, a birthing pool, ample car parking.

GETTING THERE: From the M4: Exit at Junction 15 and follow signs to Swindon. At the Commonhead Roundabout take the first exit left into Marlborough Road A4259. The entrance to the Hospital is 300 metres on the left.

PARKING: Pay-and-Display parking spaces are available on site in visitor parking areas and parking is allowed in marked bays only.

BUS SERVICES: Bus services across Swindon have changed to take in new routes that will ferry people to the new GWH. The GWH is served by a non stop express route from the town centre. The hospital is helping to pay for the new buses as part of a policy to encourage visitors to leave their cars at home.

The Brunel NHS Treatment Centre
Marlborough Road
Swindon
SN3 6BB
Tel: +44(0)1793 646464
The Brunel NHS Treatment Centre opened in April 2005 with 128 beds, five operating theatres and a wealth of the latest technology. The fact that the new centre deals only with elective (planned) surgery means that cancelled operations due to high numbers of emergency admissions should virtually become a thing of the past.

Marlborough House
Okus Road
Swindon
Tel: +44(0)1793 428800
Marlborough House has just completed an expansion which has led to the doubling in size (from six to 12 beds) of its in patient unit for young people between 13 and 18.
Marlborough House provides child and adolescent mental health services for young people with a wide range of mental health problems from eating disorders and behavioural problems to anxiety and depression. The facility cares for young people from a wide catchment area and the expansion has been necessary to cope with demand.

BMI Ridgeway
Moormead Road
Wroughton
Swindon
SN4 9DD
Tel: +44(0)1793 814848
www.bmihealthcare.co.uk
The Ridgeway Hospital is part of BMI Healthcare, has 50 beds with all rooms offering the privacy and comfort of en-suite facilities, satellite TV and telephone. The hospital has two theatres, a twelve bed day care unit and a post-operative bay.

These facilities combined with the latest in technology and on-site support services, enable our consultants to undertake a wide range of procedures from routine investigations to complex surgery. This specialist expertise is supported by caring and professional medical staff, with dedicated nursing teams and a Resident Medical Officer on duty 24 hours a day, providing care within a friendly and comfortable environment. An open MRI scanning unit was opened in August 1999 and the Physiotherapy Department was expanded to include a state-of-the-art gymnasium and hydrotherapy pool.

Choose and Book
www.chooseandbook.nhs.uk
Choose and Book is a national electronic booking service which gives patients a choice of place, date and time for their first outpatient appointment in a hospital or clinic. Patients can choose their hospital or clinic, and then book their appointment to see a specialist with a member of the practice team at the GP surgery, or at home by telephone or over the internet at a time more convenient to them.