About the Norfolk and Waveney University Hospitals Group
Every day, more than 18,000 colleagues across our hospitals and services provide care for over 1.2 million people across Norfolk and Waveney, North Cambridgeshire, South Lincolnshire and parts of Suffolk.
From life-saving interventions and specialist cancer treatment to welcoming new babies into the world and supporting patients through recovery after surgery, our teams are there at some of life's most important moments.
The Norfolk and Waveney University Hospitals Group brings together The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Working as one Group enables us to improve care more quickly, share expertise, strengthen services and plan for the future health needs of the people and communities we serve.
We are united by a shared purpose: improving care, enhancing safety and delivering the best possible outcomes for the people and communities we serve, now and for future generations.
Why we work together
Each of our hospitals has its own history, identity and deep connection to the communities it serves.
At the same time, many of the challenges and opportunities facing healthcare are shared. People are living longer, more people are living with multiple long-term health conditions, and demand for services continues to grow. Advances in medicine, technology and digital healthcare are also transforming how care can be delivered.
By working together as one Group, we can respond more effectively to these challenges and opportunities. We can learn from one another, share expertise, strengthen services, support our workforce and improve outcomes more quickly than we could by working alone.
What working as a Group enables us to do
- Improve outcomes and experiences for patients
- Share specialist expertise and clinical best practice
- Strengthen and develop services across our hospitals
- Support, develop and retain a skilled workforce
- Accelerate innovation, research and digital transformation
- Make the best use of public resources
- Deliver sustainable services for future generations
Most importantly, it enables us to improve care today while planning for the future needs of the people and communities we serve.
Our hospitals and services
Our Group brings together acute, specialist and children’s hospital services serving communities across Norfolk and Waveney, North Cambridgeshire, South Lincolnshire and parts of Suffolk.
At the heart of the Group are The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals and James Paget University Hospital. Together, they provide a broad range of services, from routine and planned care to life-saving interventions, specialist services, teaching, research and innovation.
Our hospitals are also supported by a wider network of services and facilities, including Cromer Hospital, North Cambridgeshire Hospital in Wisbech and the Jenny Lind Children's Hospital in Norwich, helping ensure patients can access care in the right place and at the right time.
Find out more about our hospitals and services on the NNUH, QEH and JPUH websites.
Investing in the future
Over the coming years, more than £3 billion will be invested in health and care infrastructure of Norfolk and Waveney. This includes £1.4 billion for a new hospital at The QEH, £1.4 billion for a new James Paget University Hospital, and significant investment in digital transformation through a shared electronic patient record programme.
Together, these investments represent one of the largest programmes of healthcare transformation our region has ever seen.
They provide a once-in-a-generation opportunity to modernise facilities, harness new technology, improve care for patients and reshape how health and care services work together across Norfolk and Waveney.
By working together as a Group, and alongside our health and care partners, we can make the most of this opportunity. We can align investment, share expertise, strengthen services and create a more sustainable and connected health and care system for future generations.
Looking to the future
Alongside our work to improve care today, we are developing a shared clinical strategy to help ensure services remain safe, sustainable and fit for the future.
Working with patients, staff, partners and local communities, we are considering how healthcare needs are changing, how services can work more effectively together, and how we can make the best use of investment in hospitals, technology and infrastructure.
This work is not about organisations working in isolation. It is about working together across health and care to improve outcomes, strengthen services and meet the future needs of the people and communities we serve.
Find out more about our clinical strategy.
How the Group is governed
The Group is governed by a single Board, which provides strategic leadership across all three Trusts and helps ensure patients receive safe, effective and compassionate care.
Meet our Board members. While strategic decisions are taken collectively, each Trust remains a separate legal organisation and continues to operate under its own name.
Local leadership teams remain responsible for the day-to-day running of services and for ensuring care remains responsive to the needs of the communities they serve.
See our forthcoming Board meetings in public.
Working with partners
Improving health and care requires collaboration beyond hospitals.
We work closely with Integrated Care Boards, local authorities, primary care providers, community services, mental health organisations, universities and voluntary sector partners to improve health outcomes, reduce inequalities and provide more joined-up care for local people.
Our key partners include:
Together, we are building a stronger, more connected and more sustainable health and care system for the future.