Royal Oldham Hospital

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]

Royal Oldham Hospital
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Oldham Hospital
Royal Oldham Hospital is located in Greater Manchester
Royal Oldham Hospital
Shown in Greater Manchester
Geography
LocationOldham, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates53.5528°N 2.1227°W / 53.5528; -2.1227
Organisation
Care systemPublic NHS
Services
Emergency departmentYes Accident & Emergency
Beds191[1]
History
Openedc.1870 (as a workhouse infirmary)
Links
Websitehttp://www.pat.nhs.uk
ListsHospitals in England

History

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

Radio Cavell, founded in 1952, provides a hospital radio service in the hospital.[8]

See also

References
  1. "The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust". Care Quality Commission. p. 45. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  2. "Official website". Radio Cavell.
  3. "Oldham". Workhouses. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  4. "Royal Oldham Hospital, Oldham". National Archives. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  5. "TV star Professor Cox goes back to school for a day!". Oldham Evening Chronicle. 22 November 2018. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  6. "First test-tube baby hails birth pioneers". Oldham Evening Chronicle. 17 March 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  7. "Royal Oldham hospital joins the National Bereavement Care Pathway". Rochdale News. 18 April 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  8. "Radio Cavell". Hospital Broadcasting Association. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
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