Birkenhead General Hospital (known as Birkenhead Borough Hospital until 1926) was a
hospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emerge ...
situated on Park Road North, between Prince Edward Street and Livingstone Street, in
Birkenhead
Birkenhead (; cy, Penbedw) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England; historically, it was part of Cheshire until 1974. The town is on the Wirral Peninsula, along the south bank of the River Mersey, opposite Liver ...
, England.
History
The hospital was built in 1862 and opened the following year as Borough Hospital.
The name was changed to Birkenhead General Hospital in 1926.
From 1948 it was run by the Birkenhead
Hospital Management Committee
From the founding of the National Health Service of the United Kingdom in 1948 until the reorganisation in 1974 the hospital management committee was the main instrument of local management. There were originally 377 committees which were answerabl ...
, and after 1974 by the Wirral
Area Health Authority
Area health authorities were 90 bodies responsible for administering the National Health Service, established in England by the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 in 1974. Each covered a geographical population which matched a Local Go ...
.
[ After services were transferred to the newly opened ]Arrowe Park Hospital
Arrowe Park Hospital is a large, acute hospital, located on a 15-acre (6.1 ha) section of Arrowe Park, close to the village of Upton, Wirral, Merseyside. It is one of three hospitals managed by Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation ...
, the building ceased to be used in 1982.[
]
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Hospital buildings completed in 1864
Buildings and structures in Birkenhead
Hospitals in Cheshire
Defunct hospitals in England
Hospitals disestablished in 1982
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