Royal Oldham Hospital | |
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Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust | |
Geography | |
Location | Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 53°33′10″N2°07′22″W / 53.5528°N 2.1227°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | Public NHS |
Services | |
Emergency department | Yes Accident & Emergency |
Beds | 191 [1] |
History | |
Opened | c.1870 (as a workhouse infirmary) |
Links | |
Website | http://www.pat.nhs.uk |
Lists | Hospitals in England |
The Royal Oldham Hospital is a NHS hospital in the Coldhurst area of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. It is managed by the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital has its own volunteer-run radio station, Radio Cavell, which broadcasts at 1350 AM. [2]
The hospital has its origins in the workhouse infirmary established to support the Oldham Union Workhouse on the Rochdale Road in around 1870. [3] It became the Boundary Park Hospital in the late 1920s and, after joining the National Health Service in 1948, it became Oldham and District General Hospital in 1955. [4]
The hospital was the birthplace of English physicist Brian Cox, who is a professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester; he was born in 1968. [5] The hospital was also the birthplace of Louise Brown, the world's first successful in vitro fertilised "test tube baby", on 25 July 1978. [6]
In April 2018 the hospital joined the National Bereavement Care Pathway, which intends to ensure a common standard in bereavement care for parents. [7]
Radio Cavell, founded in 1952, provides a hospital radio service in the hospital. [8]
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