Blaina & District Hospital

Blaina and District Hospital
Blaina and District Hospital
	Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
	Nantyglo Hospital
	Shown in Blaenau Gwent
Geography
Location	Nantyglo, Wales, United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°46′53″N3°09′55″W / 51.781373°N 3.165224°W Coordinates: 51°46′53″N3°09′55″W / 51.781373°N 3.165224°W
Organisation
Care system	Public NHS
Hospital type	Community Hospital
Services
Emergency department	No Accident & Emergency
History
Founded	1910
Closed	October 2010
Links
Lists	Hospitals in Wales

Last updated September 09, 2019

Blaina and District Hospital (Welsh : Ysbyty Blaina a'r Cylch) was a community hospital in Blaina, Blaenau Gwent, Wales. It was managed by the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.

Welsh ; [kəmˈrɑːɨɡ](listen)) or y Gymraeg is a Brittonic language of the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is spoken natively in Wales, by some in England, and in Y Wladfa. Historically, it has also been known in English as 'British', 'Cambrian', 'Cambric' and 'Cymric'.

A community hospital can be purely a nominal designation or have a more specific meaning. When specific, it refers to a hospital that is accessible to the general public, and provides a general or specific medical care which is usually short-term, in a cost-effective setting, and also focuses on preventing illnesses and not only treating them. The following countries have specified definitions for a community hospital:

Blaina is a small town, situated deep within the South Wales Valleys between Brynmawr and Abertillery in the unitary authority of Blaenau Gwent, ancient parish of Aberystruth, preserved county of Gwent and historic county of Monmouthshire. As of 2011, the town has a population of 4,808.

History

The site for the hospital was acquired from Octavius Price.^[1] The hospital was designed by Gasenius Lewis and built by W A Linton.^[1] The hospital, which was paid for from subscriptions by local mining communities, opened as the Nantyglo Hospital on 2 January 1911.^[1] The maternity ward was officially opened by the Duke and Duchess of York on 17 March 1932.^[1] The hospital joined the National Health Service as the Blaina and District Hospital in 1948.^[2]

George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death on 6 February 1952. He became known as a symbol of British determination to win the Second World War against Germany.

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the wife of King George VI and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. She was Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the Dominions from her husband's accession in 1936 until his death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter. She was the last Empress consort of India.

The National Health Service in the United Kingdom includes NHS England, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and the affiliated Health and Social Care (HSC) in Northern Ireland. They were established together in 1948 as one of the major social reforms following the Second World War. The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, apart from dental treatment and optical care. The English NHS also requires patients to pay prescription charges with a range of exemptions from these charges.

After services transferred to the Ysbyty Aneurin Bevan in Ebbw Vale it closed in 2010.^[3] The building was subsequently demolished and the site cleared.^[1]

Ysbyty Aneurin Bevan is a community hospital in Ebbw Vale, Wales. It is managed by the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.

Ebbw Vale is a town at the head of the valley formed by the Ebbw Fawr tributary of the Ebbw River in Wales. It is the largest town and the administrative centre of Blaenau Gwent county borough. The Ebbw Vale and Brynmawr conurbation has a population of roughly 33,000. It has direct access to the dualled A465 Heads of the Valleys trunk road and borders the Brecon Beacons National Park.

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References

1 2 3 4 5 "Blaina & District Hospital". Out of the Blue Artifacts. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
↑ "Blaina & District Hospital". National Archives. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
↑ "Save our hospital from the bulldozers". Wales Online. 26 April 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2019.

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[out-1] 1 2 3 4 5 "Blaina & District Hospital". Out of the Blue Artifacts. Retrieved 21 February 2019.

[2] "Blaina & District Hospital". National Archives. Retrieved 21 February 2019.

[3] "Save our hospital from the bulldozers". Wales Online. 26 April 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2019.