| Royal Manchester Children's Hospital | |
| New hospital site in central Manchester | |
| Geography | |
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| Location | Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Funding | NHS Foundation trust |
| Hospital type | Teaching, Specialist (Paediatric) |
| Affiliated university | School of Medicine, University of Manchester |
| Services | |
| Beds | 371 |
| History | |
| Founded | Originally 1829, at Pendlebury in 1973, new hospital on 11 June 2009 |
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| Website | |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
The Royal Manchester Children's Hospital is a children's hospital in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, England. It was opened on 11 June 2009, after the closure of the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital (founded 1829) in Pendlebury, near Manchester, and Booth Hall Children's Hospital in Blackley, North Manchester, as well as the existing St Mary's Hospital for neonatal services previously based nearby.
The Royal is part of the Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is based adjacent to the Manchester Royal Infirmary. It offers a range of specialities including oncology, haematology, bone marrow transplant, burns, genetics, and orthopaedics. The hospital has 371 beds and with 185,000 annual patient visits.[1]
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The Royal Manchester Children's Hospital was the first hospital in the United Kingdom to treat only children when it was initially founded in 1829. It started as a small dispensary at 25 Back King Street in Manchester city centre for the treatment of sick children. By 1855, it had developed to a six-bed hospital. In 1873, the hospital moved to Pendlebury, just off Manchester Road (the A6). In 1923, it was granted Royal Patronage. The hospital in Pendlebury cared for at least 7,000 patients a year. With the birth of the NHS, the hospital continued to expand and eventually hosted 250 beds.
The hospital has since closed, and services moved to the new children's hospital next to Manchester Royal Infirmary in central Manchester. The move started on 11 June 2009, and was completed by the end of the month. The new hospital is the largest, single site, children's hospital in the country.
Much of the remaining buildings were based around buildings dating from the Victorian era. The hospital canteen used to contain a framed letter from Florence Nightingale praising the structure of the hospital and asking for contact details of its architect.
The hospital provided regional services in paediatric oncology, surgery, otolaryngology, orthopaedics, respiratory medicine, endocrinology, neurology, neurosurgery, nephrology and urology. The hospital also provided regional intensive care and was internationally recognised for its work with metabolic and endocrine diseases. It had a high dependency and the regional intensive care unit.
The Booth Hall Children's Hospital, based on Charlestown Road, Blackley in North Manchester, was opened in 1908, by Humphrey Booth, who had bought the land and commissioned its building. It initially cared for the poor, and then for wounded soldiers from World War I from 1914. It was emptied at the start of World War II and made ready for expected casualties of air raids. It was however converted back to a children's hospital in 1926. It was incorporated into the NHS in 1948.
Since then it has provided paediatric specialist services in general paediatric services with a paediatric accident and emergency department, paediatric surgery, orthopaedic surgery, plastic surgery with a paediatric burns unit, gastroenterology, respiratory medicine and diabetology. It also had a high dependency unit and a transitional care unit for long term, usually ventilated, patients.
Planning for the new hospital began in 2004 and construction reached half way in 2008.[2] The £500m was completed in April 2009[3] and opened on 11 June 2009.
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