Wythenshawe Hospital
| University Hospital of South Manchester | |
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| University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Wythenshawe Hospital, Baguley, Wythenshawe, M23 9LT, Manchester, England |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS & South Manchester Healthcare Limited |
| Hospital type | General |
| Affiliated university | University of Manchester |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Level 1 Trauma Centre |
| Beds | 950 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.uhsm.nhs.uk/ |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
The University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust runs Wythenshawe Hospital, a major acute teaching hospital in Wythenshawe. Many of the services and facilities previously at Withington Hospital were transferred to Wythenshawe in 2004. It provides services for adults and children at Wythenshawe Hospital and Withington Community Hospital (the latter formerly owned by Manchester PCT). It runs Buccleuch Lodge Intermediate Care Unit and the Dermot Murphy Centre in Withington, and the Specialised Ability Centre in Sharston.
Withington Urban District Council built a hospital with 100 beds, known as Baguley Sanatorium, for infectious disease on the site now occupied by Wythenshawe Hospital in 1902. It could no longer use Monsall Hospital as Manchester City Council required use of the whole hospital for their own fever patients. Withington had a policy of moving patients with infectious diseases to hospital and paying for their maintenance. The District Council was incorporated into Manchester in 1904 and the sanatorium became one of the city hospitals. There were two 2 storey buildings each with 12 beds, and two single storey buildings each with a 10 bedded ward. In 1911 630 patients were admitted. In 1912 it was converted into a sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis with 150 beds. in 1916 two more blocks were built, increasing the capacity to 316 beds. Recreation rooms and a dining hall were built. The Hardman Street clinic became the corporation's tuberculosis dispensary. Another sanatorium, established by Chorlton-cum-Hardy Board of Guardians in Abergele with 50 beds was also taken over by the corporation.
In 1922 817 patients were admitted and the daily average was 313. 66 patients had been there for more than a year. There were 193 deaths.
In 1935 84 more beds were established and a home for 91 nurses was built. San Toy, the Baguley Sanatorium Magazine, was first published. It continued monthly until 1954 apart from the war years.
In 1939 an Emergency Hospital Service hospital was built on the Baguley site by Manchester Corporation. 17 pavillions were built, some of wood and some of brick, with a total capacity of 680 beds, reduced to 350 because of the specialist nature of some of the units. A plastic surgery and maxillo-facial surgery centre, with three thirty bedded wards, one for women, one for officers and one for other ranks, was established under the leadership of Professor F C Wilkinson. A dental laboratory was set up on a ward veranda. All the civilian TB patients were moved out. The first party of 10 patients came from Dunkirk on 3rd June 1940 for maxillo-facial surgery. Patients included German prisoners of war. In 1943 a separate Dental unit and laboratory, a photography unit and two operating theatres were added. In early 1945 the hospital reverted to civilian use but with a military wing of 128 beds for servicemen with pulmonary TB. After the war it became difficult to find sufficient nurses and 120 beds were closed. The plastic surgery and maxillo-facial surgery centre continued and did some work at the Christie Hospital and at the Duchess of York Hospital. Randell Champion was appointed the first plastic surgery consultant in Manchester when the NHS started in 1948.
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