Northern General Hospital

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The Northern General Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Sheffield, England. It hosts most major departments, including a busy Accident and Emergency for adults (children being catered for at the Sheffield Children's Hospital on Western Bank). The hospital is run by the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which also runs the Royal Hallamshire Hospital.

[edit] History

The Hospital started out in 1878 as Fir Vale Workhouse, which also contained the Smilter Lane/Herries Road Children's Homes.

By 1967, the site contained two Hospitals which had developed from the Workhouse; Fir Vale Infirmary and the City General Hospital. This overall entity was then renamed as the Northern General Hospital^[2]

[edit] The hospital today

Currently, the hospital consists of six wings^[3]. Many of the older wings are named after famous families and individuals from Sheffield, particularly in the steel industry These are:

• Huntsman Building - named for Benjamin Huntsman, mostly orthopaedics, but also contains the A&E, HDU, ITU and X-Ray departments, the theatres, one of four Outpatients' departments, a large dining room and the site's main Medical Records department.
• Firth Wing - named for Mark Firth and containing CCU, Vascular surgery and other surgical wards.
• Chesterman Wing, the regional cardiology centre
• Vickers Corridor - named for Edward Vickers, primarily used for Geriatrics, Renal and endocrine disease, as well as containing departments of Sheffield Medical School and the Sheffield Kidney Institute
• Sorby Wing - named for Henry Clifton Sorby, and containing the renal unit.
• Osborn Building - named for John Osborn, the spinal unit
• Brearley Wing - named for Harry Brearley, and containing the respiratory and rehabilitation wards and a dining area
• Bev Stokes Day-surgery unit
• Hadfield Wing - named for Sir Robert Hadfield, this is the latest addition and houses many departments moving from soon-to-be emptied wings of the hospital, as well as a new neck of femur ward. This structure is 6-storeys tall and contains a full-height atrium, allowing natural light to enter the wards. As part of the redevelopment, the area around was landscaped.
• A myriad of other buildings, including the Longley Centre for psychiatry, the Oakwood Young Peoples Centre, Rivermead Unit, Sam Fox House and the Medical Education Centre (for undergraduate and postgraduate medical training), the Clock Tower, containing dining facilities, a gym, MacMillan Cancer Unit and five other outpatients' departments.

[edit] Future

The hospital is currently being expanded, and as part of this proposal, the Therapy Services OPD for Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy have already opened, along with the Hadfield Wing. A multi-storey car park is also proposed, to alleviate congestion on the site.

The hospital has close links with the University of Sheffield, where doctors are trained, and Sheffield Hallam University, where nurses, midwives and professions allied to medicine are trained.

[edit] See also

Sheffield Hallam University - local provider of courses and training for allied health professionals such as nurses, physiotherapists and paramedics. Also provides postgraduate study in professions allied to medicine.

University of Sheffield - local provider of medical training and postgraduate study.

[edit] References

1. ^ "Sheffield's Fir Vale Workhouse & old Hospital". http://www.judandk.force9.co.uk/workhouse.html#FIR. Retrieved on 2006-12-06. 
2. ^ Pilkington, Scott. "Northern General Hospital History Project". http://www.shef.ac.uk/~nmhuk/placestovisit/NGHposter.pdf. Retrieved on 2006-12-06. 
3. ^ "Northern General Hospital site map". http://www.sth.nhs.uk/patients/resources/nghsitemap.pdf. 

[edit] External links

• Sheffield's Fir Vale Workhouse & old Hospital
• Sheffield Hospitals Charitable Trust