Lincoln County Hospital

Lincoln County Hospital is a large district general hospital on the eastern edge of north-east Lincoln, England. It is not in the most accessible part of the city, via road. It is the largest hospital, and offers the most comprehensive services, in Lincolnshire.HistoryThe first buildings were built in 1776, being designed by John Carr. The current site was first built in 1878, being designed by Alexander Graham.The Viking Way passes east-west along the south edge of the hospital. The hospital is now the headquarters of the United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust.FacilitiesIt has 24 wards and 588 car spaces.On top of the building is a radio transmitter, sometime soon planned to be the area's DAB mast for MuxCo Lincolnshire.The Lincoln Hospitals' Radio Service first broadcast in December 1979 from St George's Hospital, moving to Lincoln County Hospital in 1988. One of its members Ray Drury went on to champion (a not connected radio station) Lindum RadioTrainingThe hospital trains a small number of medical students from The University of Nottingham and The University of Leicester.The University of Nottingham Medical School have approximately 330 nursing students and 30 midwifery students at its Lincoln Education Centre. The hospital has a less established contact with the University of Lincoln (which offers a nursing course), and no in-house facilities.A & ENewark Hospital closed its A&E facilities in April 2011, and just over half of patients that would have been sent to Newark by ambulance, will now go to Lincoln, via the dual-carriageway A46. Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire already share the Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance.