Scunthorpe General Hospital

Scunthorpe General Hospital
Scunthorpe General Hospital
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
	Shown in Lincolnshire
Geography
Location	Cliff Gardens, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, DN15 7BH, United Kingdom
Coordinates	53°35′13″N0°40′01″W / 53.587°N 0.667°W
Organisation
Care system	Public NHS
Funding	Government hospital
Type	District General
Affiliated university	NHS North Lincolnshire
Services
Emergency department	Yes Accident & Emergency
Beds	408
History
Opened	1929
Links
Website	NHS Directory
Lists	Hospitals in the United Kingdom

Last updated October 18, 2024

Scunthorpe General Hospital is the main hospital for North Lincolnshire. It is situated on Church Lane in the west of Scunthorpe, off Kingsway (the A18), and north of the railway.

History

Background

In the 1850s when the steel industry was forming, if there were serious accidents at work, men were taken by horse and cart to the ferry at New Holland and then on to Hull.^[1] In the late 1800s makeshift facilities were set up in Frodingham Town Hall.^[1]

After the First World War, the need for a hospital became increasingly urgent when the town increased in size after the Appleby-Frodingham Steel Company was formed.^[1] Lord St Oswald, who had owned land on which the steelworks were built, donated land off Doncaster Road for a hospital to be built.^[1]

Formation

In the late 1920s, at long last, work gathered pace to build a hospital. Subscriptions from local workmen were collected and local fundraising took place. Each year there was the Annual Hospital Carnival. The Scunthorpe and District War Memorial Hospital opened on 5 December 1929.^[1] It cost £65,000 and had 72 beds. For the first year, the running of the hospital cost around £13,000. By 1931 the beds increased to 86 and X-ray equipment was installed. On 26 October 1933 the nurses home was opened by Prince George, Duke of Kent, costing £15,000, with training facilities recognised by the General Nursing Council for England and Wales.^[1]

Expansion

In 1935 it increased to 130 beds, with wards named after Appleby Frodingham, Lysaght's, Redbourn, Firth Brown and Winn – the local steel companies, who were funding half the hospital's costs. In-patients cost 7s 5d per day. Further expansion, including the outpatients, was planned in mid-1939, and completed in 1942, being opened on 15 July 1942 by Ernest Brown, the Minister of Health, and cost £110,000.^[1]

Post-war

On 5 July 1948 Scunthorpe War Memorial Hospital became part of the NHS, administered by Scunthorpe Hospital Management Committee (SHMC), which also controlled Scunthorpe Maternity Home, Brumby Hospital and Glanford Hospital Brigg.^[1] Prior to the NHS, most of the funding came from the Appleby-Frodingham Steel Company.^[1]

The Coronation Wing Block, with 165 beds, was opened on 15 July 1966. The name was changed to Scunthorpe General Hospital in 1971.^[2] In June 1974 the hospital had its worst incident (Britain's biggest peacetime explosion) to deal with when the Nypro caprolactam plant at Flixborough exploded. A year later there was a serious accident at the steelworks in November 1975, killing several people.^[3] Then, in May 1982, a stand holding 800 people at Normanby Hall, for It's a Knockout , collapsed seriously injuring 60 people.^[4]

A new £2.5 million three-storey A & E unit was built in the late 1980s. On 19 May 1993 a new wing was opened by Queen Elizabeth II, in a tour of south Humberside, known as the Queen's Building.^[5]

Hospital radio

The origin of the current Hospital Radio service was in 1951 when John Tock recorded a commentary on a tape recorder of a football match at the Old Showground between Scunthorpe United and Accrington Stanley. Once the final whistle had sounded, he cycled up to the then War Memorial Hospital and played the tape back on the wards. It was such a success that he continued to do it until eventually live broadcasts began from a dedicated commentary box – direct to the hospital. A music request show followed, initially from a studio at the top of a lift shaft. In 1979 the existing studio building was opened, with an extension including a new studio being added in 2000. This was officially opened by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh on 31 July 2002 during a visit to Scunthorpe for the Golden Jubilee Celebrations.^[6]

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References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Gowers, F (1 March 1974). "A History of Scunthorpe General Hospital and how the Iron And Steel Works and Workers and Trade Unions helped". Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
↑ "Scunthorpe General Hospital, Scunthorpe". National Archives. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
↑ Richardson, J. W. (1974). Disaster Planning: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar. Bristol: John Wright & Sons. ISBN 9781483183435.
↑ "A wood-and-steel grandstand collapsed Monday, injuring 36 of 500". UPI. 3 May 1982. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
↑ "Court Circular". The Independent. 20 May 1993. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
↑ "Flashback to when the Duke of Edinburgh visited Scunthorpe and North Lincolnshire". Scunthorpe Telegraph. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2018.

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[gowers-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Gowers, F (1 March 1974). "A History of Scunthorpe General Hospital and how the Iron And Steel Works and Workers and Trade Unions helped". Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 31 October 2018.

[2] "Scunthorpe General Hospital, Scunthorpe". National Archives. Retrieved 31 October 2018.

[3] Richardson, J. W. (1974). Disaster Planning: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar. Bristol: John Wright & Sons. ISBN 9781483183435.

[4] "A wood-and-steel grandstand collapsed Monday, injuring 36 of 500". UPI. 3 May 1982. Retrieved 31 October 2018.

[5] "Court Circular". The Independent. 20 May 1993. Retrieved 31 October 2018.

[6] "Flashback to when the Duke of Edinburgh visited Scunthorpe and North Lincolnshire". Scunthorpe Telegraph. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2018.

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