Bassetlaw Hospital

Bassetlaw Hospital, Worksop, is one of the hospitals in the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital has 305 beds (19% single rooms). Each year, the hospital treats around 33,000 patients along with 38,000 emergencies in the A&E Department.

The hospital is situated in the residential area of Kilton, Nottinghamshire, about half a mile from Worksop town centre. The A1, M1 and M18 are all within 20 minutes drive; Doncaster (20 minutes), Sheffield (30 minutes) and Nottingham (50 minutes) are within an easy drive.

It is named after the District which it serves, Bassetlaw District of North Nottinghamshire, as opposed to the town Worksop.

Hospital services in Bassetlaw began with the opening of the 5-bed Victoria Hospital, Worksop, in 1900, staffed by a house surgeon, two honorary surgeons, a matron and three probationer nurses. There were 59 patients and during the first year, the income was £487 12s 6d, and the expenditure £505 4s 3d. Thirty years later, 812 patients were treated, the income was £7326 and expenditure £6751. A (penny in the pound) worker's contributory scheme raised £4300 while the 'Gloops Club' donated a cot to the Children's wing. It became part of the NHS in 1948 and apart from a new orthopaedic ward in the 1970s it was virtually unchanged until it was demolished in 1996.

The foundation stone for Kilton Hospital was laid in 1902; it was known as Worksop's Poor Law Infirmary and cost £18,300 to build. Major parts of this building still exists and is now used as an administration block and the Postgraduate Centre and Library. During the first World War a group of temporary buildings were built further up the hill to accommodate war wounded, they were still in use in the 1980s. Some of the windows in the old part of Kilton Hospital (which became the paediatric ward in the late 1970s) had graffiti scratched on the glass with initials and dates from injured soldiers. They may be still there in what is now the postgraduate centre (confirmation needed)

The first phase of the new Bassetlaw Hospital was begun on the same site in 1982. Work was completed in 1987 and Casualty and inpatient facilities at Retford Hospital were transferred to the new site in 1988. Not long after the services from the Victoria Hospital in the centre of Worksop were transferred to Bassetlaw Hospital. During the transition in the early 1980s A&E was at the Victoria with Surgery and Orthopaedics and the pathology laboratories, all other services were at Kilton.

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