Sheffield Children's Hospital | |
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Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust | |
Geography | |
Location | Western Bank, Broomhill, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England |
Coordinates | 53°22′51″N1°29′24″W / 53.3807°N 1.49°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | NHS |
Type | Specialist, Children's hospital |
Affiliated university | Sheffield Medical School (University of Sheffield) & Faculty of Health and Wellbeing at Sheffield Hallam University |
Services | |
Emergency department | Yes |
History | |
Opened | 1876 |
Links | |
Website | www |
Lists | Hospitals in England |
The Sheffield Children's Hospital is a healthcare facility for children in Broomhill, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It is managed by the Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust.
The hospital first opened on 15 November 1876 as a children's infirmary in Brightmore House, on Brook Hill in Sheffield. [1] Two years later it moved to its current site on Western Bank where it was accommodated in a pair of semi-detached houses. [1] By the mid 1890s it was decided that the two old house were inadequate and should be pulled down and replaced. A new building on Brook Hill was opened in 1903, designed by the architect John Dodsley Webster. [2] The first X-ray machine and electric lights arrived in 1907 and a new operating theatre and electric radiators were installed in the 1920s. [1] Two new wards were completed in 1927, a baby ward was opened in the 1930s and a second operating theatre was built in the 1950s. [1] The accident and emergency department was extended in the 1970s and services were transferred from the Northern General Hospital in the 1990s. [1]
During the 1990s it was featured in the BBC Television series Children's Hospital . [3]
Local football club Sheffield Wednesday donated their shirt sponsorship to Sheffield Children's Hospital and the associated Children's Hospital Charity for the 2009–10 and 2010–11 seasons. [4]
A new wing, built at a cost of £40 million, was completed in 2018. [5] The new wing provides a new hospital main entrance, outpatients consulting suites, specialist diagnostic and treatment areas, and three new wards. [6] The new wing was officially opened by Prince Harry in July 2019. [7]
The Sheffield Children's Clinical Research Facility (CCRF) opened in 2008 as the first dedicated CCRF in the UK. Research at Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust spans a range of specialities including bone disease, genetics, respiratory disease, neurology, radiology, cancer and blood diseases, endocrinology and mental health. [8] In 2012 the hospital received over £1 million in grants for research into the treatment of bronchiolitis, the use of vibration plate therapy to prevent fractures in children, and the development of bone scanning to replace X-rays in the study of bones in children. [8]
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