The County Hospital runs a 24-hour accident and emergency department, open to all ages, on Stonebow Road in Hereford, Herefordshire, part of Wye Valley NHS Trust. It is a designated Trauma Unit, equipped to treat significant injuries and to stabilise the most serious cases before transfer to a regional Major Trauma Centre. The wider site runs 47 listed departments and services, from Breast cancer services to Vascular surgery.
The Care Quality Commission rates it Requires Improvement. It rated the hospital's urgent and emergency services Requires Improvement when they were last inspected in February 2024. Over the past 28 days, waits here have typically been shortest around noon and longest around 6am, a gap of about 6 hours 20 minutes. The site lists 493 parking spaces, 26 of them designated disabled bays, with patient parking averaging £2.00 an hour.