Wrexham Maelor Hospital 5.26

The Ysbyty Wrexham Maelor Hospital is an NHS hospital for the North East Wales region, with 581.3 beds. It housed the North East Wales NHS trust before the merger of all the trusts in North Wales in 2010.As of September 2012 Wrexham Maelor Hospital had a catchment area of over half a million residents.TodayThe hospital is a district general hospital serving Wrexham and the surrounding area and only 10 miles from the Countess of Chester Hospital. Other general hospitals are located in Bangor, Rhyl and in cities such as Liverpool, Stoke-on-Trent and Birmingham. The Accident and Emergency department is the busiest in the north of Wales; it regularly deals with over 30,000 emergency cases a year.Over the last three years the A&E department has been expanded to allow for the increasing demand for care. New developments include a new specialist paediatric emergency department and a new self-contained isolation area for the care of patients with extreme contagious disease. The hospital forms part of the North Wales trauma network, working in conjunction with the major trauma centres at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in Stoke-on-Trent for adult patients and Alder Hey in Liverpool for paediatric patients.North Wales Police maintain a presence 24 hours a day in a specially built police station located within the A&E department.