North Cambridgeshire Hospital
North Cambridgeshire Hospital | |
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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust | |
Location in Cambridgeshire | |
Geography | |
Location | The Park, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England |
Coordinates | 52°39′56″N 0°09′51″E / 52.6655°N 0.1643°ECoordinates: 52°39′56″N 0°09′51″E / 52.6655°N 0.1643°E |
Organisation | |
Care system | NHS |
Type | Community |
History | |
Opened | 1873 |
Links | |
Website | www |
North Cambridgeshire Hospital is a healthcare facility in The Park, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England. It is managed by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.
History[]
The facility, which was established by Margaret Trafford Southwell, a descendant of the Southwell family who had been tenants at Wisbech Castle, in 1873.[1] It had accommodation for 24 patients, taken from a radius of about ten miles.[2] In 1924 a film recorded a day at the hospital for the East Anglian Film Archive.[3] An outpatients department was completed in 1904 and a children's wing was added in 1936.[4] It joined the National Health Service in 1948.[5] In April 2018 it was announced that £8 million would be invested in redeveloping the hospital.[6]
References[]
- ^ Atkinson, T D; Hampson, Ethel M; Long, E T; Meekings, C A F; Miller, Edward; Wells, H B; Woodgate, G M G (2002). "'Wisbech: Miscellaneous institutions', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4, City of Ely; Ely, N. and S. Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds, ed. R B Pugh". London: British History Online. pp. 268–269. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
- ^ anonymous. Twenty-one photographic views of Wisbech and neighbouthood. Gardiner & Co.
- ^ "East Anglian Film Archive: Peeps Into A Day's Work At The North Cambridgeshire Hospital, Wisbech, 1924". Eafa.org.uk. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
- ^ "Wisbech". Local Histories. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
- ^ "North Cambridgeshire Hospital, Wisbech". National Archives. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
- ^ "£8 million Wisbech hospital redevelopment plan announced". Fenland Citizen. 19 April 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
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Categories:
- Hospital buildings completed in 1873
- Hospitals in Cambridgeshire
- Hospitals established in 1873
- 1873 establishments in England
- Wisbech
- NHS hospitals in England