Castle Hill Hospital is an NHS

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to the west of

Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire Cottingham is a large village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England with average affluence. It lies north-west of the centre of Kingston upon Hull, and south-east of Beverley on the eastern edge of the Yorkshire Wolds. It ...

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, and is run by Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

History

Cardiothoracic Department Castle Hill Hospital

Hull Sanatorium, designed by

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, was built on the site of Cottingham Castle, a large castellated mansion which had burnt down in 1861, between 1913 and 1916. In 1928 the City Hospital for infectious diseases moved from its original location on Hedon Road to newly erected buildings on the Hull Sanatorium site. A major expansion of the hospital was procured under a

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contract in 2005. The Queen's Centre for Oncology and Haematology, which was designed by HLM Architects and built by

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at a cost of £65 million, was completed in August 2008 and was officially opened by the Queen and the

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in March 2009. In 2022 an 11,000-panel solar farm was installed on site to supply the hospital with enough electricity to cover all of its daytime needs.

Facilities

Castle Hill Hospital is home to the Daisy Building, the headquarters of the Daisy Charity. The charity supports research into cancer, dementia, cardiological and haematological illnesses and respiratory medicine.

References

External links

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust website
{{authority control Hospitals in the East Riding of Yorkshire NHS hospitals in England Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire

History

Facilities

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