Altrincham General Hospital was a health facility in Market Street in

Altrincham Altrincham ( , locally ) is a market town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, south of the River Mersey. It is southwest of Manchester city centre, southwest of Sale and east of Warrington. At the 2011 Census, it had a population ...

Greater Manchester Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county and combined authority area in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million; comprising ten metropolitan boroughs: Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tam ...

, England. It was managed by the Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

History

The facility has its origins in the Lloyds Fever Hospital established in Market Street in 1853. It was completely rebuilt and reopened as the Altrincham Provident Dispensary and Hospital in 1870 before joining the

National Health Service The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). Since 1948, they have been funded out of general taxation. There are three systems which are referred to using the " ...

in 1948. After services transferred to a modern community hospital on Railway Street, Altrincham General Hospital closed in April 2015. The site in Market Street was subsequently redeveloped to create a health and wellbeing centre as well as a new home for Altrincham Library.

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