The Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital (BNHH) opened as a maternity unit in 1969. The hospital established its own hospital radio station known as Hospital Radio Basingstoke and broadcasting on 945 kHz AM in 1972. The main hospital building was opened in 1974. In 1999 BNHH became the first hospital in Europe to perform surgery using equipment operated by voice commands. In 2002 a new education centre, The Ark Centre, was opened on the hospital campus, run by the North Hampshire Medical Education Trust, a registered charity. The hospital was used as a set for both series of the
Channel 4 comedy series
Green Wing which broadcast between September 2004 and May 2006. Early in 2012 the hospital, together with the
Andover War Memorial Hospital and the
Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester, came under the management of The Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. In 2013, the Candover Clinic was established. January 2013, April 2016, although these have mostly been small-scale and well-isolated by
infection control procedures, reduced visiting hours and advice that vulnerable patients shouldn't attend the hospital during outbreaks. == Candover Clinic ==