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Number of beds
  
371

Phone
  
+44 161 276 1234

Care system
  
National Health Service

Royal Manchester Children's Hospital

Location
  
Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England

Hospital type
  
Teaching, Specialist (Paediatric)

Emergency department
  
Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center

Founded
  
1829, at Pendlebury in 1873, new hospital on 11 June 2009

Website
  
cmft.nhs.uk/childrens-hospitals.aspx

Address
  
Upper Brook St, Manchester M13 9WL, UK

Hours
  
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Affiliated university
  
School of Medicine, University of Manchester

Similar
  
St Mary's Hospital - Manchester, University Dental Hospital, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool Women's NHS Fou

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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, Booth Hall Children's Hospital in Blackley, North Manchester, and the St Mary's Hospital for neonatal services previously based nearby.

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The Royal Manchester Children's Hospital is now part of the Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. 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.

Pendlebury Children's Hospital

Manchester Children's Hospital was the first hospital in the United Kingdom to treat only children when it was founded in 1829. It started as a small dispensary treating sick children at 25 Back King Street in Manchester city centre. By 1855, it had developed to a six-bed hospital. In 1873, the hospital moved to Hospital Road, Pendlebury. In 1923, Pendlebury Children's Hospital was granted royal patronage. It cared for at least 7,000 patients a year. Under the NHS, the hospital expanded to 250 beds.

Pendlebury Children's Hospital was based in buildings dating from the Victorian era. The hospital canteen contained a framed letter from Florence Nightingale praising the structure of the hospital and asking for contact details of its architect. It provided regional services in paediatric oncology, surgery, otolaryngology, orthopaedics, respiratory medicine, endocrinology, neurology, neurosurgery, nephrology and urology. The hospital a high dependency and the regional intensive care unit and was internationally recognised for its work with metabolic and endocrine diseases.

Booth Hall Children's Hospital

Booth Hall Children's Hospital, in Charlestown Road, Blackley, in North Manchester, was opened in 1908, by Humphrey Booth, who had bought the land and commissioned its building. It cared for the poor, and from 1914 for wounded soldiers from World War I. It reverted to a children's hospital in 1926. The Booth Hall Infirmary for Children had 750 beds in 1929 and was the third largest children's hospital in the UK. It incorporated a 102-bed convalescent home. It had 160 tuberculosis beds at a home in North Wales. The infirmary was equipped to give sunlight treatment to orthopaedic cases. The hospital was emptied at the start of World War II and made ready for expected air-raid casualties. It was incorporated into the NHS in 1948.

It provided paediatric specialist services, general paediatric services and had a paediatric accident and emergency department, providing paediatric surgery, orthopaedic surgery, plastic surgery and a paediatric burns unit, gastroenterology, respiratory medicine and diabetology. It had a high dependency unit and a transitional care unit for long term, usually ventilated, patients.

Royal Manchester

Planning for a new hospital began in 2004 and construction reached halfway in 2008. The £500m hospital was completed in April 2009 and opened on 11 June 2009. Services moved to the new children's hospital in June 2009. The new hospital is the largest, single-site, children's hospital in the country. The facility, designed by Anshen & Allen cost approximately £500 million.

References

Royal Manchester Children's Hospital Wikipedia


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