About Team North West Anglia

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust is a statutory, not-for-profit, public benefit corporation. We run three acute hospital sites – Peterborough City, Hinchingbrooke and Stamford and Rutland Hospitals. 

In addition, we deliver outpatient and radiology services at Doddington Hospital, the Princess of Wales Hospital in Ely and radiology services at North Cambridgeshire Hospital in Wisbech and Peterborough City Care Centre. We provide and develop healthcare according to the core NHS principles: free care, based on need and not the ability to pay.

The Trust serves a growing catchment of approximately 850,000 residents living in Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire and the neighbouring counties of Leicestershire, Norfolk, and Bedfordshire .

The main purchasers of the Trust’s services are Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care Board and Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board. The Trust also is contracted to provide services by Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB, Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB and Norfolk and Waveney ICB. Across all these areas, NHS England purchases healthcare for specialised and nationally commissioned activity such as Cancer Services, Dental and Screening Programmes, as well as healthcare for locally based Armed Forces and patients currently resident locally in His Majesty’s Prison Services.


Our hospitals

Peterborough City Hospital at Bretton Gate, Peterborough is a modern, purpose-built facility which opened in November 2010. The hospital has 633 inpatient beds and patients are cared for on modern wards with either single en-suite rooms or three to five-bedded ward areas, each with its own bathroom. 

The hospital provides a wide variety of outpatient and inpatient services and has separate, dedicated units for patients with specific conditions. This includes, a Haematology/Oncology Unit, plus a recently expanded Radiotherapy Suite, a Renal Unit, a dedicated Women’s and Children’s Unit, a Cardiac Unit, a Respiratory Investigations facility, full Diagnostic Imaging facilities and an Emergency Centre that incorporates the Emergency Department, Urgent Treatment Centre, Surgical and Medical Assessment Units and the Jungle Paediatric Unit. 

Hinchingbrooke Hospital is a 273-bed district general hospital located at Hinchingbrooke Park in Huntingdon. The hospital opened in 1983 and provides a wide range of specialties including General Surgery, Ear, Nose and Throat, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Paediatrics, Urology, Breast Surgery, Gynaecology and Vascular services. 

The hospital has an emergency department, a maternity unit, a children’s unit and the Macmillan Woodlands Centre – a £2.4m state-of-the-art centre for patients with cancer. Also on site is a modern Treatment Centre which opened in 2005 and facilitates a wide range of outpatient appointments. It has a 23-bed day treatment unit. 

Stamford and Rutland Hospital has 22 inpatient beds on the John Van Geest ward for patients with complex care needs awaiting a place in a community care facility. The hospital provides a wide range of outpatient clinic services, a Minor Injuries Unit, and a day case surgery facility. 

The hospital also has a permanent MRI scanning suite on site, expanded facilities for blood taking and outpatient clinics, a new chemotherapy and lymphedema suite, an improved physiotherapy gym, new administration facilities and a refurbished health clinic facility.

Our staff

We employ 8,151 staff, some of whom work across more than one of our sites. 132 staff are based permanently at Stamford Hospital, 2,151 work at Hinchingbrooke Hospital and a further 72 members of staff are based at the Trust’s community hospital sites in Doddington, Ely and Wisbech. We have 40 staff members who work permanently from home along with 5 staff based at the Healthy Living Centre in Peterborough. The remaining 5,751 employees work at Peterborough City Hospital.

At Peterborough City Hospital, staff work alongside service provider partners Multiplex, Medirest and Ergea. They provide facilities management services, cleaning, catering, portering and medical equipment management.

At Hinchingbrooke, our teams are supported by colleagues from Mitie, who provide security, cleaning, grounds and garden services along with waste collection services. 

Catering services at Stamford and Rutland Hospital are provided by Mitie.

We are fortunate to benefit from a 556-strong group of active and dedicated volunteers who offer practical and emotional support to our patients, provide a helping hand to our staff and a friendly face for our visitors. With ages ranging from 16 to 91, they support the running of all three of our main hospitals and in 2024-25 provided just 82,497 hours of service for which we are truly grateful.