Barnsley Hospital is an acute general hospital in

Barnsley Barnsley () is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. As the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. In Barnsley, the population was 96,888 while the wider Borough has ...

South Yorkshire South Yorkshire is a ceremonial and metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. The county has four council areas which are the cities of Doncaster and Sheffield as well as the boroughs of Barnsley and Rotherham. In N ...

, England. It is managed by the

Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust runs the 400 bed Barnsley Hospital in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. It became a Foundation Trust in 2005. In 2017 the trust established a subsidiary company, Barnsley Facilities Services, to which 14 ...

History

The hospital has its origins in the Barnsley Union Workhouse Infirmary which opened in 1852. It was expanded in 1875 and a new purpose-built infirmary, designed with a pavilion layout, was completed in 1883. It became Barnsley Municipal Hospital in 1930 but was renamed St Helen Hospital in 1935, 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. A major redevelopment of the site to create Barnsley District General Hospital was completed in 1977. The facility became known as Barnsley Hospital in 2005. In 2021 an extension to the emergency department was opened which brings together the hospital’s previous paediatric units into a single location.

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