Scarborough Hospital
Scarborough Hospital is the Trust’s second largest hospital. It has an emergency department (A&E) and provides acute medical and surgical services, including trauma and intensive care services to the population and visitors to the East Coast.
Scarborough Hospital Main Services:
- Anaesthetics
- Bereavement Services (Chapel)
- Blood Taking Service
- Cancer Services
- Cardiology
- Child Health (Special Care Baby Unit)
- Clinical Haematology
- Community Services
- Diabetes
- Dermatology
- Emergency Medicine (A&E)
- Gastroenterology
- General Surgery and Urology
- Gynaecology
- Head and Neck Specialties
- Intensive Care
- Laboratory Medicine
- Learning Disability Services
- Library
- Maternity Services
- Medicine for the Elderly
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- Occupational Therapy
- Oncology
- Ophthalmology (Eye Department)
- Orthopaedics
- Outpatients
- Pain Management
- Pharmacy
- Physiotherapy
- Radiology
- Renal Medicine
- Respiratory Medicine
- Rheumatology
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Stroke Department
The History of Scarborough Hospital
In 1936 Scarborough Hospital was built at a cost of £135,000. It officially opened its doors on Sunday 23 October by H.R.H the Duke of Kent.
In 1948 the NHS was formed. The Leeds Regional Hospital Board, was also established which together with the Scarborough, Bridlington, Malton and Whitby Group managed Scarborough Hospital alongside 13 other local hospitals.
Long term development of local healthcare services were made at national level and in 1986 this came to fruition as a new extension to Scarborough Hospital was approved, opening in 1988.
Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust was established in April 1992.
Recent developments include a new Women’s Unit and Midwifery-Led Unit, new Radiology Department, Gastroenterology Department, refurbishment of A&E and Maple Ward a new surgical ward.
In July 2012, Scarborough Hospital and Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust became part of York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Urgent and Emergency Care Centre
Along with our partners, we are committed to sustaining urgent and emergency care services in Scarborough, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. A review of our acute East Coast services told us that our existing model of service needed to change and develop, together with our healthcare partners, in order to meet the current challenges we face – recruitment, geography, demand and demography of the East Coast.
In May 2025 a brand-new £47 million Urgent and Emergency Care Centre (UECC) officially opened its doors at Scarborough Hospital, marking the largest capital investment in the history of York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This state-of-the-art facility represents a major step forward in the way emergency care is delivered, bringing together emergency, same-day emergency, and acute medical services under one roof – along with vital diagnostics such as CT scanning. Designed to provide faster, more coordinated care for some of the hospital’s most critically ill patients, the UECC offers a modern, patient-centred environment that will benefit both patients and staff alike.