Sheffield Children's Hospital
| Sheffield Children's Hospital | |
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| Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust | |
Sheffield Children's Hospital from the east.
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| Geography | |
| Location | Broomhill, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Hospital type | Children's hospital |
| Affiliated university | Sheffield Medical School (University of Sheffield) & Faculty of Health and Wellbeing at Sheffield Hallam University |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes Accident & Emergency |
| History | |
| Founded | 1876 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in the United Kingdom |
The Sheffield Children's Hospital is part of and the headquarters of the Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust in Broomhill, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It is a purpose-built children's hospital and provides the A&E and trauma service for all minors in Sheffield and others further afield. The hospital began a major new-build in 2013.
The hospital first opened on 15 November 1876 as a children's infirmary in Brightmore House, on Brook Hill in Sheffield.
The building itself was built in many stages, with four different blocks and types of architecture visible from Western Bank.
During the 1990s it was featured in the BBC television series Children's Hospital.
Local football club Sheffield Wednesday donated their shirt sponsorship to Sheffield Children's Hospital and the associated Children's Hospital Charity for the 2009–10 and 2010–11 seasons.
The hospital consists of three general surgery wards each with their own speciality:
The patients are allocated to the three medical wards by age and/or disease process:
other wards and areas include
Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust also runs local community paediatric services and CAMHS (Mental Health services) for Sheffield. Some of these services are based at the hospital.
In addition to the medical and surgical wards, the hospital also provides regional (tertiary) and supra-regional (quaternary) services for trauma, burns and intensive care.
SC(NHS)FT also runs Embrace, a regional combined children's and neonatal critical care transport service.
There are three outpatient department areas which perform different functions:
Sheffield Children's Hospital has introduced Patient Paging Systems
The Sheffield Children's Clinical Research Facility (CCRF) opened in 2008 as the first dedicated CCRF in the UK. Research at Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust spans a range of specialities including bone disease, genetics, respiratory disease, neurology, radiology, cancer and blood diseases, endocrinology and mental health.
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