Arrowe Park Hospital is a large, acute hospital, located on a 15-acre (6.1 ha) section of

Arrowe Park Arrowe Park is an area to the west of Birkenhead, within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is situated on the Wirral Peninsula, adjacent to the Woodchurch housing estate and to the south of the large village of Upto ...

, close to the village of Upton, Wirral,

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. It is one of three hospitals managed by

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (WUTH) is an NHS Foundation Trust. It provides healthcare for people of the Wirral Peninsula and the surrounding areas of North West England and North Wales. The trust is responsible for ...

, the others being

Clatterbridge Hospital Clatterbridge Hospital is a general hospital located on Clatterbridge Health Park in Bebington, Wirral, England. It is managed by Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. History The hospital has its origins in the accommod ...

and

Wirral Women and Children's Hospital Wirral Women and Children's Hospital is located on the Arrowe Park Hospital campus, in Upton, Wirral, Merseyside and was founded following a redevelopment of the maternity and gynaecology wing of Arrowe Park Hospital. Although now considered a ...

, the latter of which is also based on the Arrowe Park site. Preliminary inspection by the

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rated the hospital as requiring improvement.

History

Planning for Arrowe Park Hospital began in the 1960s, although building did not start until the late 1970s. The facility was built to replace

Birkenhead General Hospital Birkenhead General Hospital (known as Birkenhead Borough Hospital until 1926) was a hospital situated on Park Road North, between Prince Edward Street and Livingstone Street, in Birkenhead, England. History The hospital was built in 1862 and op ...

in Birkenhead, Highfield Maternity Hospital in

Wallasey Wallasey () is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside, England; until 1974, it was part of the historic county of Cheshire. It is situated at the mouth of the River Mersey, at the north-eastern corner of the Wirral Pe ...

, Leasowe Hospital in

Leasowe Leasowe () is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England. Historically within Cheshire (ceased to be in 1974), Leasowe was part of the old County Borough of Wallasey. It is now within the Leasowe and Moreton East War ...

, St Catherine's Hospital in Birkenhead and Victoria Central Hospital in

. The hospital was officially opened by

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on 4 May 1982. In March 2011, following remodelling work at a cost of £11.5 million, the maternity and gynaecology unit was renamed

Coronavirus quarantine centre

In January 2020, the hospital was designated the quarantine site for British nationals evacuated from China during the

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. The British nationals from Wuhan were all released from quarantine after 14 days and none became ill. British citizens who had been quarantined on the ''Diamond Princess'' cruise liner were also scheduled to be quarantined at Arrowe Park Hospital.

References

External links

Official site
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