Nottingham City Hospital is a large

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located in

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, England. It occupies a large site on the ring road to the North of the city centre. It is composed of many buildings, most of which are joined together by long corridors. Buildings include a leisure club, a Maggies Centre for people with cancer, and a

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. It is managed by the

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History

The hospital has its origins in a workhouse built in York Street in 1729 which was demolished to make way for an extension to the

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in 1895. It re-opened as the Bagthorpe Workhouse and Infirmary on 18 March 1903. It served as a military hospital during the

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and the

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. The Bagthorpe Infirmary became the City Infirmary in 1930 and the City Hospital in 1937 before joining the

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in 1948. The Nottingham School of Physiotherapy was opened by Group Captain

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in 1965. The Bagthorpe Workhouse, which had developed into a facility for the elderly known as Sherwood Hospital, closed as a separate entity in 1983. The Medical Research Centre was opened by the

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in 1986 and a new CT body scanner was unveiled by

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in 1988. The

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opened the department of clinical radiology and medical physics in 1992 and a new

came into use in 1994. The Nottingham Breast Institute was opened by

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in 2004 and a

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was opened by Sir Paul Smith in 2011. In 2021 the trust secured funding from the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme to build a new energy centre which will be equipped with combined heat and power units. This is intended to reduce its carbon footprint by 14,000 tonnes and guarantee energy savings of approximately £1.8 million annually. The contract with Vital Energi includes installation of LED lighting, 300 kWe solar PV panels, and 342 kW air source heat pumps around the hospital.

Services

The hospital serves as the regional centre for cancer care,

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, infectious diseases, cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery and burns; and is a national centre for shoulder surgery. It also serves as the hyperacute stroke unit, respiratory medicine unit, and elective urology centre for Nottingham. Despite its size, the hospital has never had an

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(A&E) department. It also provides maternity and neonatal facilities. In October 2022, the maternity unit was listed as one of nine such units which were rated inadequate in a review of maternity care by Dr Bill Kirkup. The hospital has significant roles in teaching and research, in association with the

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. Research interests include rheumatology, stroke, respiratory medicine and oncology. Medical students from the

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are attached to most of the departments as part of their clinical training.

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The Development of St Mary's, St. Nicholas, St. Peters & Union Workhouse, the Bagthorpe Isolation Hospital and the Bagthorpe Workhouse and Infirmary
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