West Suffolk Hospital

West Suffolk Hospital is a small district general hospital in Bury St Edmunds, England. It is managed by the West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. History The hospital was built in a former Ordnance Depot in Hospital Road in Bury St Edmunds. It was opened as the Bury and Suffolk General Hospital on 4 January 1825. It was extended in 1861 and balconies were added in 1908. It became the Suffolk General Hospital in 1902 and the West Suffolk General Hospital in 1929. After joining the National Health Service in 1948, it moved to Hardwick Lane in Bury St Edmunds in 1973. The hospital received extensive publicity when Myra Hindley, the Moors murderer, died there in November 2002. The Marquess of Bristol, whose former home was Ickworth House near Bury St Edmunds, opened a new Friends of the Hospital shop in June 2013. Services The hospital provides accident & emergency, maternity, oncology and palliative care services.