Stepping Hill Hospital
| Stepping Hill Hospital | |
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| Stockport NHS Foundation Trust | |
Hospital viewed from the railway bridge on Bramhall Moor Road
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| Geography | |
| Location | , Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public NHS |
| Hospital type | District General Hospital |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Level 1 Trauma Center |
| Beds | 778 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1905 – opens with 340 patient beds |
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| Website | |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
Stepping Hill Hospital in a hospital in , Greater Manchester.
Stepping Hill Hospital is main hospital, which looks after a population of approximately 350,000 people.
Stepping Hill Hospital is located on the A6, south of town centre. The Trust also provides services from the Meadows (continuity/complex health care needs and palliative care), the Devonshire Centre for Neuro-rehabilitation and Swanbourne Gardens specialist unit for children with learning disability (all located in Stockport) and the Corbar Maternity Unit based 18 miles away in Buxton.
Urology, maternity, orthopaedic and stroke services at Stepping Hill Hospital are highly rated nationally. The Trust runs one of the largest orthopaedic services in the country and a specialist stroke centre serving the south of Greater Manchester. Overall responsibility for delivering services rests with the Board of Directors who are accountable for operational performance as well as the definition and implementation of strategy and policy. As a Foundation Trust there is also a Board of Governors who are the voice of the local community, the majority of whom are elected from public membership.
England under-21 footballer Tom Ince was born at Stepping Hill.
Claire Foy, Golden Globe Award winning actress and star of Netflix series The Crown and BBC series Wolf Hall was born at Stepping Hill.
Coordinates: 53°23′02″N 2°07′55″W / 53.383901°N 2.131836°W
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