Sandwell General Hospital is an acute

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of the

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and provides an extensive range of general and specialist hospital services.

History

Sandwell General Hospital and All Saints Way - geograph

The hospital started as an infirmary which was added to the

union workhouse in 1884. Improvements were begun in 1925, when the infirmary then became a separate institution named Hallam Hospital. After the creation of the NHS and rebuilding in the 1970s, the hospital was renamed Sandwell General Hospital. A new £18m Emergency Services Centre opened on the Sandwell General Hospital campus in April 2005. This facility replaced the old A&E department destroyed by the largest fire in

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history. It incorporates a comprehensive A&E facility, Emergency Assessment Unit and Cardiac Care Unit. The model of care has been developed with primary care to provide a fully integrated service. Emergency coronary care was transferred from the hospital to

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in 2015. A major rebuilding project is planned involving a new 670-bed hospital with 15 operating theatres - the

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, in

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Facilities

Sandwell General Hospital provides a comprehensive range of medical and nursing services including general medicine, surgery, urology, plastic surgery, orthopaedics, gastroenterology, rheumatology, interventional

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(including

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for

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since 2005) and

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