Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton

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Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton
Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
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The Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton
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Location in West Midlands
Geography
Location Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates 52°34′53″N2°07′14″W / 52.58128°N 2.12053°W / 52.58128; -2.12053
Organisation
Care system Public NHS
Type Acute general hospital
History
Opened1846
Closed1997
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Lists Hospitals in England

The Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton was an acute general hospital in the All Saints inner city area of Wolverhampton.

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History

The hospital was designed by Edward Banks in the classical style and built between 1846 and 1849 on land acquired from the Henry Vane, 2nd Duke of Cleveland. [1] It was opened as the South Staffordshire Hospital but became the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire General Hospital in the second half of the 19th century. [1] The internal layout rapidly became outdated when the pavilion system, where patients were separated by type of illness, was introduced at new hospitals in 1852. [2] Additions included a new wing for in-patients as well as a new block for out-patients in 1872, a fever ward in 1873, a medical library in 1877, an additional two-storey in-patient wing in 1912 and the vast King Edward VII Memorial Wing in 1923. [1] It was renamed the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton in December 1928. [1] A further block of in-patient wards was completed in the late 1930s. [1]

The hospital closed in June 1997 with services being transferred to New Cross Hospital; the site was acquired for retail development by Tesco in 2001, but the development stalled in January 2015 [3] and the site was later sold on to the Homes and Communities Agency for residential development in March 2016. [4]

Notable staff

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References

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  4. "Wolverhampton Royal Hospital site development: Major step forward as plan for 150 homes goes in". Express and Star. 16 September 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
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