Liverpool Women's Hospital

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Liverpool Women's Hospital
Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust
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Location in Liverpool
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Location in Merseyside
Geography
LocationCrown Street, Liverpool, L8 7SS
Coordinates 53°23′54″N2°57′40″W / 53.39845°N 2.96098°W / 53.39845; -2.96098
Organisation
Care system Public NHS
Type Specialist
Affiliated university University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University
Services
Emergency department No
SpecialityObstetrics and gynaecology, Neonatology
History
Opened1994
Links
Website www.liverpoolwomens.nhs.uk

Liverpool Women's Hospital is a major obstetrics, gynaecology and neonatology research hospital in Liverpool, England. It is one of several specialist hospitals located within the Liverpool City Region, alongside Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, the Walton Centre, Mersey Regional Burns and Plastic Surgery Unit and Clatterbridge Cancer Centre. It is managed by the Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital receives approximately 50,000 patients annually and is the largest hospital for its specialism in Europe. [1]

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History

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Liverpool Women's Hospital from the roof of Liverpool Cathedral

The hospital, which replaced the Women's Hospital in Catharine Street, the Liverpool Maternity Hospital, and Mill Road Maternity Hospital in a single new building in Crown Street, [2] was designed by the Percy Thomas Partnership and was constructed in red brick with white cladding and light blue metal roofs. It was officially opened by Diana, Princess of Wales in November 1995. [3]

A sculpture entitled Mother and Child was erected outside the main entrance to the hospital in 1999 by Terry McDonald. [4]

The hospital was investigated in 2018 as part of the investigation into the Countess of Chester Hospital baby murders, as perpetrator Lucy Letby had previously worked there. Following Letby's conviction in 2023, the police announced they would be investigating her activity at Liverpool Women's hospital as part of an overall investigation into Letby's entire career. [5] [6]

2021 attack

On 14 November 2021, police were called at approximately 11:00 a.m. UTC following reports of a car explosion. The building went into lockdown and was cordoned off by the police; a man died and another was injured. [7] [8] Counter-terrorism police lead the investigation. [9] The dead man was the passenger in the taxi and that the injured man was the driver. [10]

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References

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  2. Pye, Ken (2011). Discover Liverpool. Liverpool: Trinity Mirror Media. p. 10. ISBN   978-1-906802-90-5.
  3. "Diana, Princess of Wales opens Liverpool Women's Hospital". Liverpool Echo. 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  4. Pollard, Richard; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2006). Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. p. 373. ISBN   0-300-10910-5.
  5. Parveen, Nazia; Halliday, Josh (4 July 2018). "Cheshire baby deaths: police widen inquiry to second hospital". The Guardian . Retrieved 5 July 2018.
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  8. "Counter-terror police arrest three men over deadly car blast - live". The Independent. 14 November 2021. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
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