Nottingham City Hospital is a large hospital located in Nottingham, England. It occupies a large 90-acre (360,000 m2) site on the ring road to the North of the city centre. It is composed of many buildings, most of which are joined by long corridors. Buildings include a leisure club, a Maggies Centre for people with cancer, and a patient hotel. It is managed by the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
History
North Corridor
The hospital has its origins in a workhouse built in York Street in 1729 which was demolished to make way for an extension to the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1895.[1] It re-opened as the Bagthorpe Workhouse and Infirmary on 18 March 1903.[1] It served as a military hospital during the First World War and the Second World War.[2]
The Bagthorpe Infirmary became the City Infirmary in 1930 and the City Hospital in 1937 before joining the National Health Service in 1948.[3] The Nottingham School of Physiotherapy was opened by Group Captain Douglas Bader in 1965.[2] The Bagthorpe Workhouse, which had developed into a facility for the elderly known as Sherwood Hospital, closed as a separate entity in 1983.[4]
In 2021 the trust secured funding from the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme to build a new energy centre which will be equipped with combined heat and power units. This is intended to reduce its carbon footprint by 14,000 tonnes and guarantee energy savings of approximately £1.8 million annually. The contract with Vital Energi includes installation of LED lighting, 300 kWe solar PV panels, and 342 kW air source heat pumps around the hospital.[5]
Services
The hospital serves as the regional centre for cancer care, nephrology, infectious diseases, cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery and burns; and is a national centre for shoulder surgery. It also serves as the respiratory medicine unit, and elective urology centre for Nottingham. Despite its size, the hospital has never had an Accident and Emergency (A&E) department. It also provides maternity and neonatal facilities.[6]
In October 2022, the maternity unit was listed as one of nine such units which were rated inadequate in a review of maternity care by Dr Bill Kirkup.[7]
The hospital has significant roles in teaching and research, in association with the University of Nottingham. Research interests include rheumatology, stroke, respiratory medicine and oncology. Medical students from the University of Nottingham Medical School are attached to most of the departments as part of their clinical training.[8]
