Lister Hospital, Stevenage

For the private hospital in London, see Lister Hospital, Chelsea.

Lister Hospital
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Lister Hospital in 2011
Shown in Hertfordshire
Geography
Location	Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England
Coordinates	51°55′27″N0°12′46″W / 51.92417°N 0.21278°W / 51.92417; -0.21278
Organisation
Care system	NHS England
Type	District General
Affiliated university	University of Hertfordshire
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	720
Links
Website	www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/our-hospitals/lister
Lists	Hospitals in England

The Lister Hospital is an NHS hospital based on the outskirts of Stevenage in Hertfordshire. It is operated by the East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust along with the New QEII Hospital in Welwyn Garden City.

History

The Lister Hospital evolved from the workhouse in Hitchin. The Hitchin Union Workhouse had been built in 1836 on Oughtonhead Way in Hitchin. The workhouse system was brought to an end in 1930. Workhouses had provided a degree of healthcare for the poor alongside their other functions, and healthcare uses often became the main function of the former workhouse premises after 1930, including at Hitchin. The old Hitchin workhouse became the Hitchin Public Assistance Institution, run by Hertfordshire County Council. It was renamed the Lister Hospital in 1943, after Joseph Lister (1827—1912), a pioneer of aseptic surgery, who had been to school in Hitchin. ^{[1] [2]} The hospital was taken over by the NHS on its creation in 1948. ^[3]

The hospital relocated from Hitchin to its current site on the northern edge of Stevenage in 1972. The new premises were opened by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. ^[4]

With an investment of around £150 million, the Lister hospital was transformed in October 2014. ^[5]

Operations

The Lister Hospital currently has 730 beds and is a general hospital, which includes accident and emergency, urology and renal dialysis units. ^[5]

See also

• List of hospitals in England

References

1. Higginbotham, Peter. "Hitchin". The Workhouse. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
2. Pitt, Dennis; Aubin, Jean-Michel (1 October 2012). "Joseph Lister: father of modern surgery". Canadian Journal of Surgery. 55 (5): E8 –E9. doi:10.1503/cjs.007112. ISSN   0008-428X. PMC   3468637 . PMID   22992425.
3. "Records relating to Hertfordshire Workhouse Hospitals". National Archives. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
4. "Lister's 40th anniversary – call for memorabilia" (PDF). East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
5. "Lister Hospital". East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. Retrieved 21 January 2018.

External links

• NHS Choices - Lister hospital page
• East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust