Booth Hall Children's Hospital

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Booth Hall Children's Hospital
Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Booth Hall Children's Hospital
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Shown in Greater Manchester
Geography
Location Blackley, Greater Manchester, England
Coordinates 53°31′25″N2°12′23″W / 53.5236°N 2.2064°W / 53.5236; -2.2064
Organisation
Care system NHS
Type Teaching, Specialist (Paediatric)
Affiliated university School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester
History
Opened1908
Links
Lists Hospitals in England

Booth Hall Children's Hospital was a children's hospital at Blackley in Manchester. It was managed by Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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History

Booth Hall was built during the early 17th century by Humphrey Booth, a Salford man noted for his philanthropy. The original hall building was demolished in 1907 and the site was acquired by Prestwich Poor Law Union for the construction of a new general-purpose infirmary in 1908. [1] It cared for the poor, and from 1914 for wounded soldiers from the First World War. It reverted to being a children's hospital in 1926. It had 750 beds in 1929 and was the third largest children's hospital in the UK. It incorporated a 102-bed convalescent home. It had 160 tuberculosis beds at a home in North Wales. The infirmary was equipped to give sunlight treatment to orthopaedic cases. [2] The hospital was emptied at the start of the Second World War and made ready for expected air-raid casualties. It joined the National Health Service in 1948. [3] [4]

A renal dialysis unit was opened by Princess Michael of Kent in 1980. [3] After services transferred to the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Booth Hall Children's Hospital closed on 12 June 2009. [5]

Services

It provided paediatric specialist services, general paediatric services and had a paediatric accident and emergency department, providing paediatric surgery, orthopaedic surgery, plastic surgery and a paediatric burns unit, gastroenterology, respiratory medicine and diabetology. It had a high dependency unit and a transitional care unit for long term, usually ventilated, patients. [6]

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References

  1. "Booth Hall Infirmary". Manchester City Council. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  2. Brockbank, E. M., ed. (1929). The Book of Manchester and Salford Written for the 97th Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association. Manchester: George Falkner. pp. 139–40.
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