King's Mill Hospital

King's Mill Hospital
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust

King's Mill Hospital in 2010 during rebuilding
Geography
Location Mansfield Road
Sutton-in-Ashfield, NG17 4JL, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Organisation
Care system Public NHS
Affiliated university University of Nottingham
Services
Emergency department Yes Accident & Emergency
Beds 600
History
Founded 1942
Links
Website King's Mill at Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust
Lists Hospitals in England

King's Mill Hospital (or King's Mill Centre) is a hospital situated adjacent to the main A38 road in a former large open space, part of the countryside on the boundary between the towns of Sutton-in-Ashfield and Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, UK. Nearby developments include a large road junction with adjacent fast-food and pub, a hotel, a large DIY retail materials-warehouse and small shops together with some traditional, established housing on the very-edge development areas of the two district councils.

The majority of the hospital buildings are inside Ashfield District Council (town planning) area with some peripheral buildings falling under Mansfield District Council planning controls.[1][2]

Overview

King's Mill Hospital from the A38/A617/MARR road junction

The hospital serves the towns and many villages in the Mansfield Urban Area, parts of the adjacent Nottingham Urban Area, and also parts of the neighbouring county of Derbyshire. The ambulance station, opened in 1981, is close-by on the A38 road,[3] separated from the hospital complex by Morrisons supermarket car park, which shares an approach-road with the hospital.

The hospital contains a full Accident & Emergency Department, with a helipad situated in the nature reserve to the rear of the hospital, where the air ambulance regularly lands.

The next-nearest hospital is Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, where patients may be sent in the event that King's Mill cannot provide sufficient facilities.

King's Mill Hospital is the primary site of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Providing healthcare services to around 300,000 people, it serves Mansfield, Ashfield and the surrounding areas.

King's Mill Centre joined with Newark General Hospital and Ashfield and Mansfield District Community Hospitals in 2001 to form Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, which in February 2007 became Sherwood Forest NHS Foundation Trust following its successful application to Monitor, the governing body.

King's MIll Hospital in 2013 showing Main Entrance beyond the paving, Outpatient Clinics to the left, Women and Children's Centre to the right and Wards in the Towers behind

Rebuild

Sherwood Forest Hospitals has undertaken a £320 million modernisation which has seen a large reconstruction of the existing site.[4]

The design incorporated surface-solar energy (SSE) heat recovery from an adjacent reservoir, which provides one-third of the heating and all of the cooling requirements for the complex. This involved submerging a grid of 140 stainless steel plates into the water at the deepest point, connected to the hospital via twin 350-millimetre (14 in) pipes laid under the A38 dual carriageway road.[5]

The first major new building, the Diagnostic Treatment Centre, opened in April 2008, with a planned, phased relocation of wards into two of the towers starting in early 2009.[6]

Maternity Services, including Neonatal and the Sherwood Birthing Unit, relocated from their previous accommodation in the Dukeries Centre to the new Women's & Children's Services building in 2013.[7]

History

King's Mill was opened as a military hospital in 1942, as the 30th General Hospital of California - the first American wartime hospital in Britain. The hospital housed 400 injured American personnel as well as German prisoners of war.

The Mansfield Secondary Technical School opened in 1945 housed in Nissen huts left by the U.S. Army Hospital. It was later officially opened (22 June 1948) by Sir Hubert Stanley Houldsworth, Chairman of the East Midlands Division of the National Coal Board.[8] It later moved to new premises, becoming known as Sherwood Hall Secondary School.[9]

Other areas of the site were used to create King's Mill Hospital. It was officially opened 17 September 1951 by Mr. Hilary Adair Marquand, the Minister of Health.[10]

On 14 January 1975, the Dukeries Maternity Centre was opened by the Duchess of Devonshire, separate from the rest of the hospital and close to the main road. Maternity Services moved to the Women and Children's Centre adjacent to the new main hospital entrance, and the original building was demolished and recycled for hardcore by May 2013.[7]

Radio station

King's Mill Hospital also hosts its own radio station, Millside Radio, which broadcasts around the hospital 24 hours a day, 7 days a week using the Hospedia wired distribution system. This is free to patients for radio, but charges for other communications, such as individual bedside wired telephone and television. Millside Radio has been established for over 20 years.

References

  1. ↑ Mansfield District Council planning application archive, Byron House, Miller's Way. Retrieved 2013-07-16
  2. ↑ Mansfield District Council planning application archive, Alder Court. Retrieved 2013-07-16
  3. ↑ 'Our Mansfield and Area' website administered by Mansfield District Council Museum ANNALS OF MANSFIELD - 'Timeline' "1981 - King`s Mill Ambulance Station, Sutton Road, was officially opened by Mr. E. Paper." Retrieved 2013-12-31
  4. ↑ NHS UK King's Mill overview Retrieved 2014-06-17
  5. ↑ GI Energy Retrieved 2014-06-17
  6. ↑ Towers almost complete at King's Mill, March 2009 Retrieved 2014-06-17
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Dukeries Centre demolition, April 2013 Retrieved 2014-06-17
  8. ↑ 'Our Mansfield and Area' website administered by Mansfield District Council Museum ANNALS OF MANSFIELD - 'Timeline' "1945 - A Secondary Technical School opened in the Nissen huts" and "1948 - The Mansfield Secondary Technical School, Sutton Road, was officially opened" Retrieved 2013-12-31
  9. ↑ 'Our Mansfield and Area' website administered by Mansfield District Council Museum ANNALS OF MANSFIELD - 'Timeline' "1957 The Secondary Technical School moved...to Sherwood Hall." Retrieved 2013-12-31
  10. ↑ 'Our Mansfield and Area' website administered by Mansfield District Council Museum ANNALS OF MANSFIELD - 'Timeline' "1951 - The King`s Mill Hospital was officially opened" Retrieved 2013-12-31

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Coordinates: 53°08′07″N 1°14′03″W / 53.13528°N 1.23417°W