Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital

Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital (the middle red brick building on the left)
Location in Northern Ireland
Geography
Location	Grosvenor Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Coordinates	54°35′37″N5°57′17″W / 54.5936°N 5.9547°W / 54.5936; -5.9547
Organisation
Care system	Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland
Type	Specialist
Services
Speciality	Maternity
History
Opened	1794
Links
Website	www.belfasttrust.hscni.net/hospitals/RoyalMaternity.htm

The Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital is a maternity hospital in Grosvenor Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is managed by the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.

History

The facility has its origins in a private house in Donegall Street where a lying-in hospital was established in 1794. ^[1] It moved to larger premises in Townsend Street in November 1904. ^[1] The current facility was built on a site previously occupied by the Belfast Asylum, to the immediate south of the Royal Victoria Hospital. ^[2] It was officially opened by Lucy Baldwin in October 1933. ^[3] It joined the National Health Service in 1948. ^[1] After services were transferred from the Jubilee Maternity Hospital, which had been the maternity unit at the Belfast City Hospital, in May 2000, the facility at Grosvenor Road was renamed the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital. ^[4]

References

1. O'Sullivan, J. F. (2006). "Two Hundred Years of Midwifery 1806 – 2006". The Ulster Medical Journal. 75 (3). Journal of the Ulster Medical Society: 213–222. PMC   1891762 . PMID   16964815.
2. Houston, J K; O'sullivan, J F (1986). Midwifery in the Belfast City Hospital, Northern Ireland, 1842–1985. Belfast.
3. Harley, J. McD. G. (20 October 1983). "The Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast Fifty Glorious Years 1933-1983". The Ulster Medical Journal. 53 (1). Journal of the Ulster Medical Society: 1–17. PMC   2448055 . PMID   6380072.
4. "Court overturns maternity decision". BBC. 29 November 2000. Retrieved 27 March 2020.