North Hampshire Hospital

The North Hampshire Hospital, formerly Basingstoke District Hospital, is a 400 bed National Health Service (NHS) Hospital in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. It is part of the Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust, employing 3,000 staff and treating 180,000 patients a year in 2006.

In 1999 it became the first hospital in Europe to perform surgery using equipment operated by voice commands and in 2002 opened a new Postgraduate Medical Centre. This is The Ark Centre, an independent charity, on the hospital campus, run by the North Hampshire Medical Education Trust, a registered charity. this works in partnership with the hospital to provide many postgraduate education functions as well as running as an independent conference centre. Other partners in The Ark are the Pelican Cancer Foundation, a charity dedicated to the cure of pelvic & liver cancer by the use of precision surgical techniques, and Southampton University's nurse training facility. The Ark specialises in high tech conferences, including medical & surgical meetings, providing first rate IT and interactive live case presentation facilities. The Charity also sponsors a large range of community activities, within the Ark itself, sponsoring a range of educational and selfhelp meetings.

The hospital has been used as a set for both series of the Channel 4 comedy series Green Wing.

An elephant-shaped fountain by sculptress Sioban Coppinger, made to form part of a children’s play area, stands in Hunters Courtyard in the grounds of the hospital.

The hospital has its own hospital radio station called Hospital Radio Basingstoke on 945 kHz AM and on channel 6 on the bedside PatientLine units.