City Hospital (formerly Dudley Road Hospital, and still commonly referred to as such) is a major

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located in

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, operated by the

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust is one of the largest National Health Service teaching Trusts in England and comprises Sandwell General Hospital in West Bromwich, City Hospital, Birmingham and Rowley Regis Hospital. The trust was establi ...

. It provides an extensive range of general and specialist hospital services. It is located in the

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area of the west of the city. It is slated to be replaced by the delayed

Midland Metropolitan University Hospital Midland Metropolitan University Hospital is a new acute general hospital being built on a site in Grove Lane at Smethwick near Birmingham. The hospital was designed by a team led by HKS and including Edward Williams Architects and Sonnemann To ...

, with the Treatment Centre and separate eye hospital, the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre, remaining on the Dudley Road campus, the rest of which will be redeveloped for housing.

History

The hospital was first built in 1889 as an extension to the Birmingham Union Workhouse (whose entrance building, though derelict, survived until September 2017). It originally comprised a single corridor stretching for a quarter of a mile with nine

Nightingale ward A Nightingale ward is a type of hospital ward that contains one large room without subdivisions for patient occupancy. It may have side rooms for utilities and perhaps one or two side rooms that can be used for patient occupancy when patient isolat ...

blocks radiating from it along its length. The original design was by an architect called W. H. Ward and was designed around a configuration recommended by

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. It was originally known as the Birmingham Union Infirmary, later Dudley Road Infirmary, before becoming Dudley Road Hospital. One of its notable surgeons, Hamilton Bailey, took the photos for the first edition of his famous textbook while at Dudley Road. City Hospital, Birmingham - 05

The Birmingham Treatment Centre opened on the City Hospital site in November 2005. This diagnosis and treatment centre replaces the existing Outpatient Department.

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