Royal Surrey County Hospital ( Guildford) Hospital: (01483) 555800 Unit 01483 406783 (nurses station) Egerton Road, Guildford, GU2 7XX
Day Surgery Unit, Nuffield Hospital.
Procedure Room.
Directions to hospital. M25 - A3 to Guildford, from A3 signs to hospital. Turn right at roundabout before hospital (signs to Park Barn) then left, follow road through hospital car park to DSU, just past St Luke’s Cancer Centre.
Directions to treatment area. Unit open officially till 8.oopm , sometimes they work later, if arriving late call unit first and give them time, They will inform Night Porter, If unloading near front ent, call porter via hospital number, if installing around the back call porter via intercom. (To call porter in hospital ext 704) 2 ways in. (marked on map) 1. Turn left just before the DSU, drive down to glass doors. CODE 2403. Through doors, follow corridor around to right till you get to rear doors of DSU. ( If locked Night porter can be called to open them, intercom on this corridor), Through doors along corridor turn Lt, Then Rt. Procedure Room on Lt before waiting area. 2. Up slope, through Front Ent, past waiting area, Procedure room 1st on Rt. (Slope similar to Northampton and has Knobbly bits could affect equipment especially wheels). All equipment can just fit through doors of room without any tricky manoeuvres.
Treating Patients. Patients are admitted in small office opposite Procedure Room, and when ready placed in waiting area outside room, no more endless miles of pushing! PACS access in office next door to this, nurses have access codes. 10/12 patients mixture stones/peyronies. Start time 8.15am, (1st patient in 7.30am) 100mg diclofenac given, pethidine on request. SHO consents patients etc can be delays because of this.
Consultants: Mr Nigam, Davies. Small Kitchen 1st on left when you enter ward, Staff room on ward, enter ward turn left and it’s on the right. Bit of a walk to restaurant best to get bag of food from Tesco’s beforehand Car Parking. £10 for a full day! No reductions, unless you purchase parking scratch card from main ent and keep it for future visits. Some staff park on main road, just after the turn left into the hospital grounds, but bit of a walk to unit.
Directions to Hotel. Premier Travel Inn (North). Back on A3 towards London. Come off at signs for ‘Leisure Centre’ Travel Inn two miles down A road on left before Leisure Centre. Post Code: GU1 1UP Tel:
03330031689
Installing after hours, sometimes the unit can be open until 8.30-9.00pm and cleaners can let you in, however this depends on how busy the theatre lists are etc. If arriving in the evening its best to ring the Guildford Nuffield Porters 01483 555800, and ask them if they have the DSU keys, if they have then you can tell them what time you will be arriving and they will open the unit, if they haven’t then the unit is still open and you should be able to get in.
Royal Surrey County Hospital Site Map
Key 01 STAFF CAR PARK 02 VISITORS CAR PARK
TESCO SUPERSTORE
03 SSSU 04 WORKS DEPARTMENT
07. ST LUKES CAR PARK
from Guildford & A3
04
05 PATHOLOGY 06 MRI 07 ST. LUKES CANCER CENTRE 08 NUFFIELD HOSPITAL
05
(DAY SURGERY)
03
06
09 EDUCATION CENTRE
07
10 THE BEACON
MAIN ENTRANCE
13
DISABLED PARKING A&E, DROF OFF & BUS STOP
12 02
09
10
11 CEDAR
UNIVERSITY SPORTS FACILITY
08
12 HASTE 13 A+E
VISITORS CAR PARK
from London A3 (M25 )
EXIT
11 01
Tesco Supertore
02 Royal Surrey County Hospital
01. STAFF CAR PARK
THE SURREY RESEARCH PARK
from Portsmouth A3 (A31)