Bradford Royal Infirmary is a large

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in Bradford,

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, and is operated by the

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust runs Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke's Hospital in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. A new ultrasound suite was opened in December 2013 to reduce waiting time for patients needing scans. ...

. The infirmary is affiliated with the Leeds School of Medicine.

History

The hospital has its origins in the Bradford Public Dispensary founded in 1825. It opened at Darley Street in 1827 and moved to Westgate as the Bradford Infirmary in 1843. In December 1882 the infirmary staff responded to the Newlands Mill chimney collapse which resulted in the loss of 54 lives, mostly young girls and boys. The facility became the Bradford Royal Infirmary in 1897 in commemoration of

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’s Diamond Jubilee The foundation stone for the current facility in Duckworth Lane was laid by the

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and Duchess of York in 1928 and the facility opened in 1936. It joined the

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in 1948. The hospital was noted for being a pioneer in the field of chemotherapy under Professor Robert Turner and

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in the 1950s.

Services

Specialist services include support from the Yorkshire Cochlear Implant Service for young children and adults that have a Cochlear implants. The hospital hosts the 'Centre for Ageing' a research group focused on applied health research on older people and funded by the

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References

External links

Hospital website
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