Horton General Hospital

Horton General Hospital
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
Horton General Hospital in 2010
Geography
Location Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates 52°03′14″N 1°20′06″W / 52.054°N 1.335°W / 52.054; -1.335Coordinates: 52°03′14″N 1°20′06″W / 52.054°N 1.335°W / 52.054; -1.335
Organisation
Hospital type General
Services
Emergency department Yes Accident & Emergency
Beds 236
History
Founded 1872
Links
Website www.ouh.nhs.uk/hospitals/horton/
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The Horton General Hospital is a National Health Service hospital, part of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust located on the Oxford Road, in the Calthorpe ward of Banbury. The hospital has 236 beds and was founded in 1872 by Mary-Ann Horton. It was designed by the architect Charles Henry Driver. There is a 1980s mobile phone mast on the north part of the hospital.

The Italianate Elms House on Oxford Road, is a substantial villa built in 1863 for Jonathan Gillet, one of the senior partners of Gillet’s Bank, is now the offices of the Primary Care Trust, which lies within the grounds of the Horton Hospital site.[1]

In 2005, there were rumours that the hospital might have to close. This led Banbury's MP, Tony Baldry, plus a large proportion of the town's population, to start a campaign to keep the hospital open.[2] The rumours proved to be unfounded, since the plans had already been abandoned by both the NHS Trust and the Health Minister.[3]

In 2006, the Horton came into the limelight because Benjamin Geen, a nurse employed there, was convicted of two murders and fifteen counts of grievous bodily harm in April of that year. During December 2003 and January 2004 he had allegedly poisoned patients because he got a thrill out of trying to resuscitate them.[4][5]

Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group approved controversial plans to permanently downgrade the hospital’s maternity service to a midwife-led only unit in August 2017, but the Independent Reconfiguration panel recommended in March 2018 that “further action was required locally before a final decision is made about the future of maternity services in Oxfordshire”.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.cherwell.gov.uk/media/pdf/7/c/Banbury_Conservation_Area_Appraisal_(2004)_Part_2.pdf
  2. ↑ "Hospital protest hailed a success". BBC News Online. 2006-09-30. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
  3. ↑ "Struggling hospital's future safe". BBC News Online. 2008-03-20. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
  4. ↑ "Killer nurse given 17 life terms". BBC News Online. 2006-05-10. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
  5. ↑ "Independent review (2006) into Horton General A&E following the conviction of Ben Geen" (PDF).
  6. ↑ "Official review tells Hunt to knock back hospital downgrade". Health Service Journal. 8 March 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
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