Hospital on Site

A hospital on site is a hospital on a health site, which may be an NHS site or owned by other health care providers.

Each hospital on site should contain at least one bed routinely used by patients overnight (or in the case of a dental hospital, at least one bed routinely used by patients by day).

A hospital is run by a general manager and contracted staff within an organisational hierarchy of service points. Each service point serves a specific function and uses accommodation, equipment and money to provide residential care or allied and supporting services for patients.

There may be more than one hospital on a health site, provided that the separately identified hospitals are separately managed. Each of these hospitals is a hospital on site.

A hospital may itself consist of more than one hospital on site if parts of the hospital are geographically separated, situated on separate health sites, and are jointly managed.