Accommodation for NHS staff near Bedworth

Clinicians based around Bedworth tend to work north or south of it. George Eliot Hospital, on the edge of Nuneaton about 3 miles up the road, is run by its own NHS trust and serves north Warwickshire, south-west Leicestershire and north Coventry. University Hospital Coventry lies south-east of the town at Walsgrave.

Public transport links both ways. Arriva Midlands runs a direct bus from Bedworth to the University Hospital at Walsgrave, while Stagecoach and National Express Coventry run into the city centre. Bedworth station, reopened in 1988, has an hourly train each way on the line between Leamington Spa and Nuneaton.

Sullivan Heights is about 2 miles by road from University Hospital Coventry, Stoke Lodge and Stoke House about 3 miles and Humber Hub about 4 miles. For George Eliot, Sullivan Heights is about 8 miles by road from the hospital, Stoke Lodge and Stoke House about 9 miles and Humber Hub about 9 miles.

Sullivan Heights has three bedrooms, so colleagues on one rota can share it, plus a washing machine and a tumble dryer for scrubs after night shifts. Self check-in means arriving at any hour after four without meeting anyone. The agency or the trust can be invoiced directly.

Anker Radio, the hospital radio station serving George Eliot, broadcasts on 1386 AM. Its emergency department dates from 1993, when the Manor Hospital in Nuneaton closed. Many of its wards are named after characters from the novels of the Nuneaton-born writer.