Gloucestershire Royal Hospital is an acute

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on the Great Western Road in

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operated by the

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust runs Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, an NHS district general hospital in Great Western Road, Gloucester, England. It serves western and southern Gloucestershire and parts of Herefordshire. It also ru ...

History

In 1912, construction on a 149-bed infirmary started on Great Western Road. Patients were transferred to the new building in 1914. The British Red Cross Society took over the west block for nursing war wounded in 1914 and the east block in 1915. The buildings were completed after the war. In 1930 the infirmary was transferred to the corporation and became known as Gloucester City General Hospital. On the introduction of the

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in 1948 it was amalgamated with the

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which had stood in Southgate Street. The hospital was rebuilt in the 1960s and eventually incorporated a new 11-storey tower, the work on which started in 1970 and was completed in 1975. A major expansion of the hospital was procured under a

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contract in 2001. The works were carried out by

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at a cost of £35 million and the new facility opened in 2005.

Notable births

On 29 December 2010 the Queen's first great-grandchild was born at the hospital, a baby girl named Savannah Phillips. On 29 March 2012, The Queen' second great-grandchild Isla Phillips was born at the hospital. On 17 January 2014, The Queen's granddaughter

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gave birth to a baby girl, Mia Grace Tindall, at the hospital.

Facilities

There are 683 beds at the hospital.

References

External links

Official site
{{authority control Hospital buildings completed in 1914 NHS hospitals in England Hospitals in Gloucestershire