New Cross Hospital
| New Cross Hospital | |
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| Sponsorship | Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust |
| place | Wolverhampton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 35 '56 " N , 2 ° 5' 42" W |
| beds | about 700 |
| Employee | about 5,000 |
| Affiliation | University of Birmingham |
| founding | 1994 |
| Website | Official website |
The New Cross Hospital is a maximalversorgendes Hospital in Wolverhampton , which the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is supported and the University of Birmingham as a teaching hospital serves.
history
The New Cross Hospital was originally built as a poor house. Since the previously existing premises in Wolverhampton for this purpose were overcrowded at the end of the 19th century , a total of 50.5 acres of land in the "New Cross" district in the eastern part of Wednesfield was purchased on behalf of the city authorities for 11,218 pounds sterling . The foundation stone for the new building was laid in September 1900 and the building, which covered an area of six acres, was officially opened three years later on September 24, 1903. The total cost of construction was 156,879 pounds sterling.
The New Cross Hospital hit the national headlines with a murder on February 12, 1959: the nurse Martha Giles was found killed and stabbed to death on a lawn in the hospital. An Indian doctor from New Cross Hospital was arrested as a suspect a little later, but after a short time there were considerable doubts about his possible perpetrator. Nevertheless, the doctor - driven by the police investigation and the resulting family problems - committed suicide . The crime has not yet been solved.
The construction of the first hospital building in today's sense was carried out by the construction company Alfred McAlpine and completed in 1970. In 1994, the previously independent hospital was taken over by the newly founded Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.
In 2004, the £ 57 million Heart and Lung Center , the UK's first specialist heart center, opened. The New Cross Hospital Heart and Lung Center also performed the UK's first open heart surgery using robotic surgery in October 2012 .
Key figures
The New Cross Hospital has around 700 beds, including 27 intensive care and 14 neonatal intensive care beds . As the largest hospital in the region with around 5,000 employees, it serves as a teaching hospital for the University of Birmingham, so that there are around 130 medical students at the Wolverhampton Medical Institute and the clinic on the premises at the same time .
In addition, the New Cross Hospital, together with the University of Wolverhampton , provides training in the areas of health and nursing , obstetrics and other health care professions . In the 2007/2008 period, around 180,000 patients were treated at the New Cross Hospital.
Sponsorship
The hospital is operated by the local National Health Service Trust , which covers the Black Country , Shropshire , southern Staffordshire and northern Worcestershire and was established in that form in 1994. The Trust had a budget of £ 255 million in 2008/2009 and treated a total of 670,000 patients in the region it covers during that period.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Workhouse: Wolverhampton, Staffordshire - Retrieved December 19, 2012.
- ^ Geograph: New Cross Hospital - Workhouse Board Offices - Retrieved December 19, 2012.
- ↑ Express & Star: Murder mystery's new twist - 50 years on, February 20, 2009. Retrieved September 6, 2013.
- ↑ True Crime Library: February 12th 1959 Martha Giles - Wolverhampton ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved September 6, 2013.
- ^ Tony Gray: The Road to Success: Alfred McAlpine 1935-1985 , Rainbird Publishing, 1987.
- ↑ a b c The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust: About us ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Retrieved December 19, 2012.
- ↑ BBC News: £ 57m heart and lung center opens - Retrieved December 19, 2012.
- ↑ BBC News: Da Vinci robot heart surgery at New Cross Hospital - Retrieved January 2, 2013.
- ^ Health Service Journal: Robot used in heart surgery first at Wolverhampton - Retrieved January 2, 2013.
