Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust provides health care for the people of Huntingdonshire and surrounding areas. More than 161,000 people rely on the hospital for a range of services. We are renowned locally for our warm and friendly approach to health care. In the Healthcare Commission's Annual Health Check the Trust was assessed as fair for clinical services and weak for financial management. Our annual income is around £63 million.

The hospital is a modern purpose-built building opened in 1983, although some departments had moved here from the Huntingdon County Hospital several years before. We provide a wide range of specialties, many in conjunction with Addenbrooke's and Peterborough hospitals.

The hospital has 266 beds, including 24 specifically for day cases, alongside 23 cabins located in the Treatment Centre, the £22million unit which opened in November 2005. The hospital also has a £1.2million Medical Assessment Unit. There are also facilities for private patients, which contributes to the hospital's income.

A growing number of joint appointments are being made with Addenbrooke's Hospital and an increasing number of referrals are now coming from family doctors in areas which traditionally have referred to Addenbrooke's. The main purchaser of the Trust's services is Cambridgeshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) (96%), with the remaining 4% coming from a range of PCTs across Peterborough, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and Suffolk.