Derbyshire Children's Hospital

Derbyshire Children's Hospital is a children's hospital in Derby, Derbyshire in the United Kingdom. It is managed by Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.[1]

History

The hospital was established as the Derbyshire Hospital for Sick Children in a Victorian building on North Street in 1877.[2] It joining the National Health Service in 1948 and moved to a modern building on the Derby City General Hospital site in 1996. It was the only entirely new children's hospital built in the UK in the twentieth century.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Children's Hospital". Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Derbyshire Hospital for Sick Children, Derby". National Archives. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "Sweetening the pill". Architects' Journal. 1996. Retrieved 2 August 2018.

Coordinates: 52°54′35″N 1°30′46″W / 52.9098°N 1.5127°W / 52.9098; -1.5127

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