The Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI) is a hospital in the city of Lancaster,

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. It lies to the south of the city centre, between the

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and the

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. It is managed by the

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History

The infirmary has its origins in a dispensary which opened on Castle Hill in 1781 and a fever hospital established in 1815. These two institutions combined in premises in Thurnham Street in 1833. A larger site on Ashton Road, which had previously been known as the Springfield Estate, was bought for £2,471 in 1888 and, following a donation of nearly £10,000 by James Williamson, a local businessman, the first building of the new hospital, designed by architects

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, was opened by the

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in 1896. Springfield Hall was retained and used as an overnight nurses' home for the hospital. A new maternity unit opened in 1979, the pathology building was added in 1994 and the new centenary building opened in 1996. The Huggett Suite, a unit for treating

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patients built at a cost of £1 million, opened in spring 2017 and a new therapies outpatient department, built at a cost of £1.2 million, opened in 2018.

Performance

An inspection by the

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(CQC) published in February 2017 gave the hospital a good overall rating with caring graded as outstanding but with patient safety requiring improvement.

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