34 Field Hospital is a Regular Army medical unit based at Queen Elizabeth Barracks in Strensall, near York. Operating under 2 Medical Group, it is one of the Army's high-readiness hospital units, tasked with deploying a Role 3 Field Hospital—a fully functional, tented surgical facility—anywhere in the world. The unit provides critical "hospital-level" care in the field, including emergency department (A&E), radiology, surgery, intensive care, and laboratory services. It has a distinguished operational history, having deployed extensively to Iraq and Afghanistan (running the famous hospital at Camp Bastion), as well as supporting humanitarian missions like the response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The hospital is staffed by a core cadre of military personnel who maintain the complex infrastructure, augmented on deployment by clinical specialists from the NHS and Defence Medical Services.
