title: Heartbeat of England.
abstract: Britain's newest teaching hospital, Glenfield General Hospital in Leicester offers wide-ranging experience for nurses. Phase one of the hospital will have been operational for three years in October with 200 acute medical, surgical and orthopaedic beds. It is part of the Glenfield Unit which also includes Groby Road Hospital and Glenfield Community Hospital, the latter a purpose built 168 bedded unit for elderly care which opened only 12 years ago. Groby Road houses a subregional cardiothoracic unit dealing with approximately 800 coronary artery bypass operations annually, a paediatric cardiothoracic unit, acute and continuing care beds for the elderly and an infectious diseases unit.