| Nottingham General Hospital | |
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 Nottingham General Hospital with the main hospital block (facing) and the Jubilee Wing (on the right) | |
  Location within Nottinghamshire | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Nottingham,Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 52°57′06″N1°09′22″W / 52.95167°N 1.15611°W /52.95167; -1.15611 |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS England |
| Type | General Hospital |
| History | |
| Opened | 1781 |
| Closed | 1992 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
Nottingham General Hospital was a major hospital inNottingham, England. It was founded in 1781 and closed in 1992.
The hospital was the result of a legacy from John Key, a wealthy banker, who had left money in his will for hospitals to be built in Nottingham andYork.[1] The site selected for the hospital in Nottingham was part of the area known as Nottingham Park, immediately to the north ofNottingham Castle and near the wharves: one half of the land was given byThomas Pelham-Clinton, 3rd Duke of Newcastle for the purpose and the other half by the town corporation.[2]
The foundation stone for the first building, which had been designed by John Simpson, was laid on 12 February 1781 and the hospital opened with 44 beds in September 1782.[2][3]John Wesley, thetheologian, was an early visitor to the hospital.[4]
The hospital was extended with the Derbyshire wing, financed by a large donation fromHenry Cavendish,[5][6] which opened in 1787.[3]
In 1844 the hospital had to respond to a major disaster when 12 people were killed and over a hundred injured when a stand collapsed at a public hanging on Garner's Hill.[7]
A design for a third storey for the original building was developed byThomas Chambers Hine and the works completed in 1855.[3][7] Another new wing on the Park Row frontage opened in 1879, and the Jubilee Wing, designed byAlfred Waterhouse in a circular shape to celebrateQueen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, opened in 1900.[3][8]
During theFirst World War 102 beds were made available to the Government for wounded soldiers.[9]
The Nurses Memorial Home was opened by thePrince of Wales in 1923 as a monument to the soldiers ofNottinghamshire who had died in theFirst World War.[3] Extensions financed by donations fromWilliam Goodacre Player included the Ropewalk Wing opened byPrincess Mary in 1929,[10] the Player Wing opened in 1932[11] and the Castle Ward, designed byEvans, Clark and Woollatt,[12] which opened in 1943.[3][13]
In 1948, at the formation of theNational Health Service, the hospital came under the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board.[3] The hospital comprised 423 beds at that time.[3] The Intensive Care Unit was completed in 1963 and the Trent Wing was opened bySir Keith Joseph in 1972.[3][14] After services had transferred to theQueen's Medical Centre, the hospital closed in 1992.[3] The main hospital block is now home to the offices of Nottingham City Clinical Commissioning Group and Nottingham CityCare Partnership.[15]
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