About Us

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust is a small district general hospital based in Nuneaton, serving over 300,000 people in North Warwickshire, South West Leicestershire and North Coventry.

The Trust’s main hub is the George Eliot Hospital, a 32-acre site on the outskirts of Nuneaton. The hospital provides a range of acute surgical, medical, women’s and children’s services, including orthopaedics, accident and emergency and maternity care.

Named after the Nuneaton born author whose works include The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch, the hospital opened in 1948, although a hospital has existed on the site since 1893.

In addition to providing many traditional acute health services, the George Eliot became one of the first acute trusts in the country to have a primary care division. Initially this division was responsible for running the GP-led health centre in Camp Hill, Nuneaton. However, with the Department of Health led transfer of community services from primary care trusts to other providers, from 1 April 2011 the primary care division will have responsibility for a further three GP surgeries in North Warwickshire as well as specialised community dentistry, TB control, smoking cessation services across Warwickshire and Leicester out of hours service based at Leicester Royal Infirmary.

The Trust is part of several ‘clinical networks’ including cancer, pathology, coronary heart disease and women’s and children’s services. These partnerships enable Trusts to share resources and expertise, strengthening services for local people.

One of the Trust’s key goals is to provide care closer to home. Over recent years the Trust has developed ways of working to provide more services in community settings such as GP practices and people’s homes. These include physiotherapy, occupational therapy, respiratory care and stroke care.