The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust is a National Health Service Trust providing hospital-based health care to more than 356,000 people who live in and around Ipswich and east Suffolk. It is a single-site medium size acute hospital, renowned for providing a high standard of specialist healthcare services to the residents of Ipswich and East Suffolk, and some specialties such as spinal surgery and cancer surgery to a wider population, as well as outreach services in a number of clinical specialties