Pinderfields Hospital is an acute
District General Hospital
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in
Wakefield
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,
West Yorkshire
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operated by the
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust runs Pontefract Hospital, Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield and Dewsbury and District Hospital and community health services in Wakefield, all in West Yorkshire, England.
It has been under financial pressure ...
.
History
![Pinderfields Hospital - Aberford Road - geograph](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Pinderfields_Hospital_-_Aberford_Road_-_geograph.org.uk_-_759959.jpg)
The original acute hospital in
Wakefield
Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder. The city had a population of 99,251 in the 2011 census.https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ks101ew Census 2011 table KS101EW Usual resident population, ...
was established as part of the
Stanley Royd Hospital
The Stanley Royd Hospital, earlier named the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum, was a mental health facility in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. It was managed by the Wakefield and Pontefract Community Health NHS Trust.
History
The facility, which was ...
and opened on 8 March 1900.
It was briefly renamed Wakefield Emergency Hospital before becoming Pinderfields General Hospital in the 1940s.
[ The name derives from the Pinder of Wakefield, the townsmen in charge of impounding stray animals who were tasked with ensuring that no-one dare trespass on Wakefield under their watchful eyes.][
A new hospital, to be known as the Pinderfields Hospital, was procured under a ]Private Finance Initiative
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contract to replace Pinderfields General Hospital in 2007. The new hospital, which was designed by the Building Design Partnership
Building Design Partnership Ltd, doing business as BDP, is a firm of architects and engineers employing over 900 staff in the United Kingdom and internationally.
History
BDP was founded in 1961 by George Grenfell-Baines with architects Bill White ...
and built by Balfour Beatty
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at a cost of circa £150 million, was completed in June 2010. It was opened by the Princess Royal
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in September 2011.
In January 2018, with overcrowding becoming a serious issue at many hospitals, patients were pictured sleeping on the bare floors of Pinderfields Hospital.
References
External links
Official site
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Buildings and structures in Wakefield
Hospitals in West Yorkshire
Hospital buildings completed in 2010
NHS hospitals in England
2010 establishments in England