Royal Oldham Hospital
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Oldham Hospital
Shown in Greater Manchester
Geography
Location	Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates	53°33′10″N 2°07′22″W / 53.5528°N 2.1227°W / 53.5528; -2.1227
Organisation
Care system	Public NHS
Services
Emergency department	Yes Accident & Emergency
Beds	191[1]
History
Opened	c.1870 (as a workhouse infirmary)
Links
Website	http://www.pat.nhs.uk
Lists	Hospitals in England

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]

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]