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Sheffield Children's Hospital

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Care system
  
NHS

Opened
  
15 November 1876

Founded
  
1876

Hospital type
  
Children's hospital

Phone
  
+44 114 271 7000

Sheffield Children's Hospital

Location
  
Broomhill, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Affiliated university
  
Sheffield Medical School (University of Sheffield) & Faculty of Health and Wellbeing at Sheffield Hallam University

Emergency department
  
Yes Accident & Emergency

Website
  
www.sheffieldchildrens.nhs.uk

Address
  
Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TH, UK

Hours
  
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Similar
  
Weston Park Hospital, Royal Manchester Children, Leeds General Infirmary, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Weston Park - Sheffield

Profiles

Having an operation at sheffield children s hospital with makaton narration


The Sheffield Children's Hospital is part of and the headquarters of the Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust in Broomhill, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It is a purpose-built children's hospital and provides the A&E and trauma service for all minors in Sheffield and others further afield. The hospital began a major new-build in 2013.

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History

The hospital first opened on 15 November 1876 as a children's infirmary in Brightmore House, on Brook Hill in Sheffield.

The building itself was built in many stages, with four different blocks and types of architecture visible from Western Bank.

During the 1990s it was featured in the BBC television series Children's Hospital.

Local football club Sheffield Wednesday donated their shirt sponsorship to Sheffield Children's Hospital and the associated Children's Hospital Charity for the 2009–10 and 2010–11 seasons.

Wards departments and specialities

The hospital consists of three general surgery wards each with their own speciality:

  • S1 general surgery, ENT, dental surgery and urology
  • S2 neurosurgery and neuromedicine
  • S3 orthopaedics and plastic surgery
  • The patients are allocated to the three medical wards by age and/or disease process:

  • M1 (0–4 years old)
  • M2 (5–16 years old)
  • M3 (oncology, haematology)
  • other wards and areas include

  • a burns unit
  • a trauma centre
  • a 10 bedded intensive care unit
  • a 9 bedded high dependency unit
  • a day surgery ward
  • a dental unit
  • a haematology unit
  • an ophthalmology unit
  • a cystic fibrosis unit
  • a sleep study unit
  • an emergency department and minor injuries unit
  • MRI and CT facilities
  • Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust also runs local community paediatric services and CAMHS (Mental Health services) for Sheffield. Some of these services are based at the hospital.

    In addition to the medical and surgical wards, the hospital also provides regional (tertiary) and supra-regional (quaternary) services for trauma, burns and intensive care.

    SC(NHS)FT also runs Embrace, a regional combined children's and neonatal critical care transport service.

    There are three outpatient department areas which perform different functions:

  • Red area (orthotics and ENT)
  • Green area (gastroenterology, urology, neurology)
  • Blue area (orthopaedics and fracture clinic)
  • Sheffield Children's Hospital has introduced Patient Paging Systems

    Research

    The Sheffield Children's Clinical Research Facility (CCRF) opened in 2008 as the first dedicated CCRF in the UK. Research at Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust spans a range of specialities including bone disease, genetics, respiratory disease, neurology, radiology, cancer and blood diseases, endocrinology and mental health.

    In 2012 the hospital received over £1 million in grants for research into the treatment of bronchiolitis, the use of vibration plate therapy to prevent fractures in children, and the development of bone scanning to replace X-rays in the study of bones in children.

    References

    Sheffield Children's Hospital Wikipedia