Walsgrave Hospital

University Hospital Coventry is a large National Health Service (NHS) hospital situated in the Walsgrave on Sowe area of Coventry, West Midlands, England, 4mi from the city centre. It is part of the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. It has a large, progressive accident & emergency department providing a trauma service to Coventry and Warwickshire, and is one of the largest of its kind outside London.DevelopmentThe hospital was built under a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) to replace the Walsgrave Hospital and the Coventry & Warwickshire Hospital. Construction started in July 2002 and the hospital opened on 10 July 2006. The partners in the scheme, known as Projectco, were Innisfree Ltd, Skanska, Vinci SA, GE and ISS Mediclean. Skanska subsequently sold its stake to Innisfree for £66 million. The hospital cost £440 million to build, but Projectco is guaranteed an income of £3.3 billion over 30 years, including facilities contracts.The hospital is equipped with 1,250 beds and 27 operating theatres. On 26 March 2012, the hospital was designated as one of four trauma centres in the West Midlands Region. In 2012, the planning committee approved an application to build a new car park at the hospital, to help improve ongoing congestion and traffic issues.