Manchester Hospital for Diseases of Children
| Royal Manchester Children's Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Funding | NHS foundation trust |
| Hospital type | Teaching, Specialist (Paediatric) |
| Affiliated university | School of Medicine, University of Manchester |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center |
| Beds | 371 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1829, at Pendlebury in 1873, new hospital on 11 June 2009 |
| Links | |
| Website | cmft |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
The Royal Manchester Children's Hospital is a children's hospital in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, England. It was opened on 11 June 2009, after the closure of the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital (founded 1829) in Pendlebury, near Manchester, Booth Hall Children's Hospital in Blackley, North Manchester, and the St Mary's Hospital for neonatal services previously based nearby.
The Royal Manchester Children's Hospital is now part of the Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It offers a range of specialities including oncology, haematology, bone marrow transplant, burns, genetics and orthopaedics. The hospital has 371 beds and with 185,000 annual patient visits.
Manchester Children's Hospital was the first hospital in the United Kingdom to treat only children when it was founded in 1829. It started as a small dispensary treating sick children at 25 Back King Street in Manchester city centre. By 1855, it had developed to a six-bed hospital. In 1873, the hospital moved to Hospital Road, Pendlebury. In 1923, Pendlebury Children's Hospital was granted royal patronage. It cared for at least 7,000 patients a year. Under the NHS, the hospital expanded to 250 beds.
Pendlebury Children's Hospital was based in buildings dating from the Victorian era. The hospital canteen contained a framed letter from Florence Nightingale praising the structure of the hospital and asking for contact details of its architect. It provided regional services in paediatric oncology, surgery, otolaryngology, orthopaedics, respiratory medicine, endocrinology, neurology, neurosurgery, nephrology and urology. The hospital a high dependency and the regional intensive care unit and was internationally recognised for its work with metabolic and endocrine diseases.
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