The Royal Hallamshire Hospital is a general and

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located in

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, England. It is in the city's West End, facing Glossop Road and close to the main campus of

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and the Collegiate Crescent campus of

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. The hospital is run by the

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History

The hospital, which replaced both the

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and the

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, was designed by Adams, Holden and Pearson and built in two phases; the first phase, a three-storey out-patients department was completed in 1971. The second phase, the main building, was opened by the

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in 1978. The main building was designed as three main interlinked buildings, the most significant being the monolithic 21-storey

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, which remains the third highest in Sheffield after St Paul's Tower and the

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. It was designed with the rear part of the building overhanging a service road. Operation of the hospital was transferred from the Sheffield Health Authority (dissolved on 1 April 1992) to the newly created Central Sheffield University Hospitals NHS Trust on 1 November 1991. On 1 April 2001, the Central Sheffield University Hospitals NHS Trust merged with the Northern General Hospital NHS Trust to create the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which was later awarded

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on 1 July 2004. The

Jessop Wing The Royal Hallamshire Hospital is a general and teaching hospital located in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It is in the city's West End, facing Glossop Road and close to the main campus of University of Sheffield and the Collegiate Cresc ...

, which replaced the Jessop Hospital for Women as a provider of maternity and gynecology services, was designed by the George Trew Dunn Partnership and opened by the

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in 2001.

Services

Most non-emergency departments are represented in the hospital, although accident and emergency cases are handled by the

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, on the north side of the city. It has 14 operating theatres and it provides training for both

and the

. It contains one of the United Kingdom's largest departments of infectious diseases and tropical medicine, which includes one of the country's HCID (High Consequence Infectious Diseases) units for looking after

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cases and other very serious infectious illnesses.

References

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History

Services

See also

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