Royal Oldham Hospital
Royal Oldham Hospital | |
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Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | |
Geography | |
Location | Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 53°33′10″N 2°07′22″W / 53.5528°N 2.1227°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | Public NHS |
Services | |
Emergency department | Yes Accident & Emergency |
History | |
Opened | c.1870 (as a workhouse infirmary) |
Links | |
Website | http://www.pat.nhs.uk |
Lists | Hospitals in England |
The Royal Oldham Hospital is a NHS hospital in the Coldhurst area of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. It is managed by Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
History
The hospital has its origins in the workhouse infirmary established to support the Oldham Union Workhouse on the Rochdale Road in around 1870.[1] It became the Boundary Park Hospital in the late 1920s and, after joining the National Health Service in 1948, it became Oldham and District General Hospital in 1955.[2]
The hospital was the birthplace of Louise Brown, the world's first successful in vitro fertilised "test tube baby", on 25 July 1978.[3] It joined the National Bereavement Care Pathway, which intends to ensure a common standard in bereavement care for parents, in April 2018.[4]
See also
References
- ^ "Oldham". Workhouses. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
- ^ "Royal Oldham Hospital, Oldham". National Archives. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
- ^ "First test-tube baby hails birth pioneers". Oldham Evening Chronicle. 17 March 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
- ^ "Royal Oldham hospital joins the National Bereavement Care Pathway". Rochdale News. 18 April 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2018.