Details, mere details. And oh I forgot the same hospital traust runs the Friarage Hospital at Northalerton and that's the garrison hospital for Catterick army 'camp'.
If you've seen tham helipads on the roof of London hospitals... welll.. the helipad at James Cook is on top of a heap of clay about the size of a football pitch and four metres high and slap bang outside the doors of A & E and it can probably accomodate three or four seakings at once 'cos it designed to to the evavucation of a North Sea Oil rig.
The trust is a district general hospital for:
around 270,000 people living in Middlesbrough and the local authority area of Redcar and Cleveland;
122,000 people in an area stretching from the North Yorkshire Moors to the central Pennines, the borders of York District in the south and the borders of Darlington in the north.
Our 6,800 workforce also cover a range of highly specialist services extending to 1.5 million people in Teesside and parts of Cumbria, Durham and North Yorkshire - with leading expertise in heart disease, cancer, trauma, neurosciences, renal services, and spinal injuries.
A multi-million pound redevelopment on The James Cook University Hospital site is one of the Government's Private Finance Initiative hospitals and is the largest hospital - with a wide range of specialties on one site - of its type in Europe.
We are also nearing completion of a £21 million redevelopment at the Friarage Hospital, which hosts the Ministry of Defence Hospital Unit (MDHU).
We are building on our links with the universities of Teesside, Durham, and Newcastle, and have a purpose-built academic centre with medical students doing their clinical placements on site. The trust is committed to training, life-long learning, and research, and the academic centre will help us attract and retain the right calibre of medical staff to the area.