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Whipton Hospital
Whipton Hospital is a small community hospital, also known as the Exeter Community Hospital (Whipton). It was founded as the Whipton Isolation Hospital in 1913 as a pulmonary tuberculosis sanatorium as part of a network of such facilities, instigated by the Public Health (Tuberculosis Regulations) 1912. The hospital now offers satellite services for a number of local healthcare organisations including the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and the Devon Partnership NHS Trust. History The foundation stone of the hospital was laid on 3 July 1913 by the Senior Medical Officer of Exeter, Mr EA Brash. It was located only a few hundred metres West of the Heavitree isolation hospital (now the Ellen Tinkham School), and approximately the same distance East of the Honeylands Children's Sanatorium. The hospital joined the NHS in 1948, and along with the larger Hawkmoor Hospital near Bovey Tracey Bovey Tracey () is a small town and civil parish in Devon, Englan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exeter
Exeter () is a city in Devon, South West England. It is situated on the River Exe, approximately northeast of Plymouth and southwest of Bristol. In Roman Britain, Exeter was established as the base of Legio II Augusta under the personal command of Vespasian. Exeter became a religious centre in the Middle Ages. Exeter Cathedral, founded in the mid 11th century, became Anglican in the 16th-century English Reformation. Exeter became an affluent centre for the wool trade, although by the First World War the city was in decline. After the Second World War, much of the city centre was rebuilt and is now a centre for education, business and tourism in Devon and Cornwall. It is home to two of the constituent campuses of the University of Exeter: Streatham and St Luke's. The administrative area of Exeter has the status of a non-metropolitan district under the administration of the County Council. It is the county town of Devon and home to the headquarters of Devon County Council. A p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, in which case it is known as latent tuberculosis. Around 10% of latent infections progress to active disease which, if left untreated, kill about half of those affected. Typical symptoms of active TB are chronic cough with blood-containing mucus, fever, night sweats, and weight loss. It was historically referred to as consumption due to the weight loss associated with the disease. Infection of other organs can cause a wide range of symptoms. Tuberculosis is spread from one person to the next through the air when people who have active TB in their lungs cough, spit, speak, or sneeze. People with Latent TB do not spread the disease. Active infection occurs more often in people with HIV/AIDS and in those who smoke. Diagnosis of active TB is ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanatorium
A sanatorium (from Latin '' sānāre'' 'to heal, make healthy'), also sanitarium or sanitorium, are antiquated names for specialised hospitals, for the treatment of specific diseases, related ailments and convalescence. Sanatoriums are often located in a healthy climate, usually in the countryside. The idea of healing was an important reason for the historical wave of establishments of sanatoriums, especially at the end of the 19th- and early 20th centuries. One sought for instance the healing of consumptives, especially tuberculosis (before the discovery of antibiotics) or alcoholism, but also of more obscure addictions and longings, of hysteria, masturbation, fatigue and emotional exhaustion. Facility operators were often charitable associations such as the Order of St. John and the newly founded social welfare insurance companies. Sanatoriums should not be confused with the Russian sanatoriums from the time of the Soviet Union, which were a type of sanatorium resort r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
The Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust ran Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Honeylands Children's Centre (for specialist assessment and support for children with special needs and their families), the Exeter Mobility Centre (providing orthotics, prosthetics, wheelchairs and special seating), and the Mardon Neuro-Rehabilitation Centre. The trust's application for NHS Foundation Trust status was approved in December 2003, which became effective on 1 April 2004. The trust took over the management of Castle Place Practice with 15,000 patients in Tiverton in 2018. It also now runs a number of community services including inpatient beds in Tiverton, Sidmouth and Exmouth. It merged with the Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust in April 2022 to form the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, chaired by Dame Shan Morgan. Performance In October 2014, it was reported that the Trust was not meeting the government target for 85% of cancer patients to be treated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devon Partnership NHS Trust
Devon Partnership NHS Trust is a mental health trust established in 2001. It provides mental health and learning disability services in Devon (excluding Plymouth), England. Services In December 2016, the trust announced that it had applied for planning permission to build a brand new, £5.5million psychiatric intensive-care unit (PICU) in Exeter: work on site stated in November 2017. Performance The trust was last inspected by the Care Quality Commission The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom. It was established in 2009 to regulate and inspect health and social care services in England. I ... (CQC) in June-July 2019: the report was published in October 2019 and its overall rating was 'Good'. References External links * CQC inspection reports {{Authority control NHS mental health trusts Health in Devon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heavitree Isolation Hospital
The Heavitree isolation hospital, also for a time known as the Exeter Corporation Tuberculosis Sanatorium, was a small pulmonary tuberculosis sanatorium located on Hollow Lane, Exeter, United Kingdom. The site is a few hundred metres to the west of the Whipton Hospital Whipton Hospital is a small community hospital, also known as the Exeter Community Hospital (Whipton). It was founded as the Whipton Isolation Hospital in 1913 as a pulmonary tuberculosis sanatorium as part of a network of such facilities, instigat ... (formerly the Whipton Isolation Hospital). History Foundation as an isolation hospital Despite its name, the sanatorium is in the Pinhoe/Monkerton area of Exeter, and is not to be confused with the Heavitree Hospital, also known as the Royal Devon and Exeter (Heavitree). This is because the building was erected by the Heavitree parish, but in the neighbouring parish of Pinhoe, against strenuous objection by the locals and council of that area. The Heavitree coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Tinkham School
Ellen is a female given name, a diminutive of Elizabeth, Eleanor, Elena and Helen. Ellen was the 609th most popular name in the U.S. and the 17th in Sweden in 2004. People named Ellen include: *Ellen Adarna (born 1988), Filipino actress *Ellen Alaküla (1927–2011), Estonian actress * Ellen Palmer Allerton (1835–1893), American poet * Ellen Allien (born 1969), German electronic musician and music producer * Ellen Anckarsvärd (1833-1898), Swedish feminist * Ellen Andersen (1898–1989), Danish museum curator * Ellen Anderson (born 1959), American politician * Ellen Auerbach (1906–2004), German-born American photographer *Ellen Baake (born 1961), German mathematical biologist *Ellen S. Baker (born 1953), American physician and astronaut *Ellen Barkin (born 1954), American actress * Ellen Bass (born 1947), American poet and author *Ellen A. Dayton Blair (1837–1926), social reformer and art teacher * Ellen Bontje (born 1958), Dutch equestrian * Ellen Burka (1921–2016), D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honeylands Children's Sanatorium
The Honeylands, originally the Honeylands Children's Sanatorium and later the Honeylands Children's Centre was a hospital in Exeter, Devon used as a children's pulmonary tuberculosis sanatorium, later used for treatment of children with learning difficulties. Adults were treated at the nearby Whipton Hospital. History As a house The site had a house before 1711, when it was sold by act of parliament upon the death of the owner of Polsloe Barton (which owned the land, despite its proximity to Whipton Barton), Samuel Isaac. The house passed through various owners, including a doctor, hide broker, and the owner of the Devon and Somerset Store in Exeter High Street. Tuberculosis sanatorium In January 1923, the house was purchased by Miss Violet Wills of Torquay, and donated to Exeter City Council for the sole purpose of being used as a sanatorium for children suffering from tuberculosis. Miss Wills offered both the house and the cost of the repairs and adaptations (estimated at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawkmoor Hospital
Hawkmoor Hospital, originally known as Hawkmoor County Sanatorium, was a specialist hospital near Bovey Tracey in Devon, founded in 1913 as a pulmonary tuberculosis sanatorium as part of a network of such facilities, instigated by the Public Health (Tuberculosis Regulations) 1912. From 1948, the hospital catered for patients with a range of chest ailments (including tuberculosis), as well as chest surgery, and mental disability patients. From 1973, the facility dealt solely with mental health problems until its closure in 1987. History The hospital, which formed part of a nationwide network of sanatoria designed for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis and made possible by central government grants worth £1.5 million awarded under the Finance Act 1912, opened in 1913. The sanatorium initially opened in temporary accommodation with 40 beds available. The main building not completed until over a year later. Training of nurses was shared by arrangement with the Royal Cornwall Inf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bovey Tracey
Bovey Tracey () is a small town and civil parish in Devon, England, on the edge of Dartmoor, its proximity to which gives rise to the "slogan" used on the town's boundary signs, "The Gateway to the Moor". It is often known locally as "Bovey". It is about 10 miles south-west of Exeter and lies on the A382 road, about halfway between Newton Abbot and Moretonhampstead. The village is at the centre of the electoral ward of Bovey. At the 2011 census the population of this ward was 7,721. History Bovey Tracey was an established Saxon community and takes its name from the River Bovey. The name first appears in Domesday Book as ''Bovi'' and possibly earlier as ''Buui''. The town gained its second name from the de Tracey family who were lords of the manor after the Norman Conquest, and was first documented as ''Bovitracy'' in 1309. One member of the family, William de Tracy, was implicated in the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170. It is thought that he re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honeylands
The Honeylands, originally the Honeylands Children's Sanatorium and later the Honeylands Children's Centre was a hospital in Exeter, Devon used as a children's pulmonary tuberculosis sanatorium, later used for treatment of children with learning difficulties. Adults were treated at the nearby Whipton Hospital. History As a house The site had a house before 1711, when it was sold by act of parliament upon the death of the owner of Polsloe Barton (which owned the land, despite its proximity to Whipton Barton), Samuel Isaac. The house passed through various owners, including a doctor, hide broker, and the owner of the Devon and Somerset Store in Exeter High Street. Tuberculosis sanatorium In January 1923, the house was purchased by Miss Violet Wills of Torquay, and donated to Exeter City Council for the sole purpose of being used as a sanatorium for children suffering from tuberculosis. Miss Wills offered both the house and the cost of the repairs and adaptations (estimated at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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