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Care system
  
Public NHS

Lists
  
Hospitals in England

Phone
  
+44 161 483 1010

Founded
  
1905

Emergency department
  
Level 1 Trauma Center

Opened
  
1905

Number of beds
  
778

Function
  
Hospital

Stepping Hill Hospital

Location
  
Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Hospital type
  
District General Hospital

Website
  
http://www.stockport.nhs.uk

Address
  
Poplar Grove, Hazel Grove, Stockport SK2 7JE, UK

Similar
  
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Stepping Hill Hospital in a hospital in Stockport, Greater Manchester.

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Stepping Hill Hospital is Stockport NHS Foundation Trust's main hospital, which looks after a population of approximately 350,000 people.

Stepping Hill Hospital is located south of Stockport town centre. The Trust also provides services from the Meadows (continuity/complex health care needs and palliative care), the Devonshire Centre for Neuro-rehabilitation and Swanbourne Gardens specialist unit for children with learning disability (all located in Stockport) and the Corbar Maternity Unit based 18 miles away in Buxton.

Urology, maternity, orthopaedic and stroke services at Stepping Hill Hospital are highly rated nationally. The Trust runs one of the largest orthopaedic services in the country and a specialist stroke centre serving the south of Greater Manchester. Overall responsibility for delivering services rests with the Board of Directors who are accountable for operational performance as well as the definition and implementation of strategy and policy. As a Foundation Trust there is also a Board of Governors who are the voice of the local community, the majority of whom are elected from public membership.

Stepping hill hospital medical and surgical centre


Milestones

  • Stepping Hill Hospital first opened in 1905.
  • Stockport NHS Trust formed in April 2000, following the merger of Stockport Acute Services and Stockport Healthcare NHS Trust.
  • The Trust was the first in the country to achieve Clinical Pathology Accreditation for their point of care testing in December 2011.
  • The UK’s first prostate cancer operation using a hand-held robot was undertaken at Stepping Hill Hospital in March 2012.

    • Notable births

    England under-21 footballer Tom Ince was born at Stepping Hill.

    Claire Foy, Golden Globe Award winning actress and star of Netflix series The Crown and BBC series Wolf Hall was born at Stepping Hill.

    References

    Stepping Hill Hospital Wikipedia
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