Nottingham City Hospital
Nottingham City Hospital | |
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Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust | |
Geography | |
Location | Nottingham, England |
Coordinates | 52°59′27″N 1°09′28″W / 52.99083°N 1.15778°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | NHS |
Type | Teaching |
Affiliated university | University of Nottingham |
Services | |
Emergency department | No |
Beds | 1100 |
History | |
Opened | 1903 |
Links | |
Website | www |
Lists | Hospitals in England |
Nottingham City Hospital is a large hospital located in Nottingham, England. It occupies a large 90-acre (360,000 m2) site on the ring road to the North of the city centre. It is composed of many buildings, most of which are joined by long corridors. Buildings include a leisure club, a Maggies Centre for people with cancer, and a patient hotel. It is managed by the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
History
The hospital has its origins in a workhouse built in York Street in 1729 which was demolished to make way for an extension to the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1895.[1] It re-opened as the Bagthorpe Workhouse and Infirmary on 18 March 1903.[1] It served as a military hospital during the First World War and the Second World War.[2]
The Bagthorpe Infirmary became the City Infirmary in 1930 and the City Hospital in 1937 before joining the National Health Service in 1948.[3] The Nottingham School of Physiotherapy was opened by Group Captain Douglas Bader in 1965.[2] The Bagthorpe Workhouse, which had developed into a facility for the elderly known as Sherwood Hospital, closed as a separate entity in 1983.[4]
The Medical Research Centre was opened by the
In 2021 the trust secured funding from the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme to build a new energy centre which will be equipped with combined heat and power units. This is intended to reduce its carbon footprint by 14,000 tonnes and guarantee energy savings of approximately £1.8 million annually. The contract with Vital Energi includes installation of LED lighting, 300 kWe solar PV panels, and 342 kW air source heat pumps around the hospital.[5]
Services
The hospital serves as the regional centre for cancer care,
In October 2022, the maternity unit was listed as one of nine such units which were rated inadequate in a review of maternity care by Dr Bill Kirkup.[7]
The hospital has significant roles in teaching and research, in association with the University of Nottingham. Research interests include rheumatology, stroke, respiratory medicine and oncology. Medical students from the University of Nottingham Medical School are attached to most of the departments as part of their clinical training.[8]
See also
References
- ^ a b Swift, Paul. "The History of the City Hospital Nottingham: A Talk On Its Origins". Visit Nottinghamshire. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
- ^ a b c d e "Nottingham Hospitals History". Retrieved 4 September 2018.
- ^ "Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham". National Archives. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
- ^ "Nottingham". Workhouses. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
- ^ "Nottingham City Hospital to cut energy costs by £1.8m a year". Building Better Healthcare. 14 May 2021. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
- ^ "The Labour Suite". Which?. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
- ^ "Care substandard at 39% of maternity units in England, NHS watchdog finds". The Guardian. 21 October 2022. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
- ^ "Routes into Medicine - The University of Nottingham". www.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2017.