St Luke's Hospital is an

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hospital in

Bradford Bradford is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire, England. The city is in the Pennines' eastern foothills on the banks of the Bradford Beck. Bradford had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 ...

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, England. It is situated on Little Horton Lane to the south-west of Bradford city centre. The hospital is managed by

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust runs Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke's Hospital in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. A new ultrasound suite was opened in December 2013 to reduce waiting time for patients needing scans. ...

. The main accommodation block is a grade II listed building.

History

The hospital has its origins in the Bradford Union Workhouse Infirmary which was completed in 1852. During the

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, the Bradford Board of Guardians ran the hospital as an auxiliary war hospital. Thereafter it became known as St Luke's Hospital. It became the City of Bradford Municipal General Hospital in 1929 and joined the

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as St. Luke's Hospital in 1948. The hospital was noted for being a pioneer in the field of chemotherapy under Professor Robert Turner and

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in the 1950s. In 2009 a disused ward on the site was used as the fictional St Aidan's Hospital in the

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drama, ''

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'' with external scenes filmed around

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and

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. One of the stars of the Royal,

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, was actually born at St Luke's in 1981 when the hospital had a maternity ward. This and other buildings were not being used for medical practice and in 2010, were demolished due to vandalism, dry rot and asbestos. It was also used as a filming location in ''

A Passionate Woman ''A Passionate Woman'' is a British two-part drama mini-series that aired on BBC One from 11 to 18 April 2010. Plot In 1950s Yorkshire, Betty Stevenson, a married mother of one, falls in love with her Polish neighbour, Alex Crazenovski aka "Cra ...

'' in autumn 2009.

Hospital radio

''St Luke's Sound'' is the

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serving

patient A patient is any recipient of health care services that are performed by healthcare professionals. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, nurse, optometrist, dentist, veterinarian, or other health c ...

s and staff. St Lukes Hospital Bradford

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Lukes Hospital, Bradford Hospitals in Bradford Poor law infirmaries NHS hospitals in England

History

Hospital radio

See also

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