West Cumberland Hospital runs a 24-hour accident and emergency department, open to all ages, on Homewood, Hensingham in Whitehaven, Cumbria, part of North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust. The wider site runs 20 listed departments and services, from Children's & Adolescent Services to Vascular surgery.
The Care Quality Commission rates it Requires Improvement, last inspected in July 2018. It rated the hospital's urgent and emergency services Requires Improvement when they were last inspected in November 2018. Over the past 28 days, waits here have typically been shortest around noon and longest around 4am, a gap of about an hour and 20 minutes. The site lists 999 parking spaces, 55 of them designated disabled bays, with patient parking averaging £0.67 an hour.