Royal Manchester Children's Hospital

Royal Manchester Children's Hospital
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Manchester Children's Hospital
Shown in Greater Manchester
Geography
Location	Oxford Road, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England
Coordinates	53°27′36″N2°13′38″W / 53.4599645°N 2.2271186°W / 53.4599645; -2.2271186
Organisation
Care system	NHS
Funding	NHS foundation trust
Type	Teaching, Specialist (Paediatric)
Affiliated university	School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester
Services
Emergency department	Yes, Paediatric Major Trauma Centre
Beds	371
History
Opened	2009
Links
Website	mft.nhs.uk/rmch/
Lists	Hospitals in England

The Royal Manchester Children's Hospital is a children's hospital in Oxford Road, Manchester, England. The Royal Manchester Children's Hospital is managed by the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.

History

A new hospital was required to replace services previously provided by the Pendlebury Children's Hospital at Pendlebury in the City of Salford, Booth Hall Children's Hospital at Blackley in north-Manchester, and neonatal care from Saint Mary's Hospital, Manchester. It was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in 2004. ^[1] The new hospital, which was designed by Anshen & Allen and built by Bovis Lend Lease ^[2] at a cost of approximately £500 million, ^[3] was completed in April 2009 ^[4] and opened in June 2009. ^[5] In 2013 the hospital carried out scans on Ta-Kr-Hb a mummified Egyptian woman dating from 7th or 8th century BC. ^[6]

Services

The hospital has 371 beds and with 185,000 annual patient visits making it the largest and busiest children's hospital in the United Kingdom. ^{[7] [8]}

See also

• List of hospitals in England

References

1. "City's £500m hospital 'halfway'". BBC News. 30 April 2008. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
2. "Building Management". Central Manchester NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
3. "Central Manchester Hospitals". Anshen & Allen . Archived from the original on 15 February 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
4. "New children's hospital completed". BBC News. 30 April 2009. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
5. "New children's hospital: a guide". BBC. 11 June 2009. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
6. McKnight, Lidija M; Loynes, Robert D (1 July 2014). "From Egyptian Desert to Scottish Highlands – the radiographic study of a Twenty-Fifth Dynasty coffin and mummy bundle from the Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland". Papers on Anthropology. 23 (1): 108. doi: 10.12697/poa.2014.23.1.09 . ISSN   1736-7646.
7. "Manchester City can prove they are the 'new Arsenal' when they meet at the Etihad Stadium". The Telegraph. 17 December 2011. Retrieved 18 December 2011. RMCH is the largest children's hospital in the UK and treats 185,000 children each year.
8. "New Manchester children's hospital is largest in UK". Nursing Times. 16 June 2009. Retrieved 6 November 2018.

External links

• Pendlebury Children's Hospital drawing
• Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital Charity