The Royal Oldham Hospital is a

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hospital in the Coldhurst area of

Oldham Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, amid the Pennines and between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham ...

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. It is managed by the

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. The hospital has its own volunteer-run radio station, Radio Cavell, which broadcasts at

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History

The hospital has its origins in the workhouse infirmary established to support the Oldham Union Workhouse on the Rochdale Road in around 1870. It became the Boundary Park Hospital in the late 1920s and, after joining the

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in 1948, it became Oldham and District General Hospital in 1955. The hospital was the birthplace of English physicist Brian Cox, who is a professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the

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; he was born in 1968. The hospital was also the birthplace of

Louise Brown Louise Joy Brown (born 25 July 1978) is an English woman who was the first human to have been born after conception by ''in vitro'' fertilisation experiment (IVF). Her birth, following a procedure pioneered in Britain, has been lauded among "t ...

, the world's first successful ''in vitro'' fertilised "test tube baby", on 25 July 1978. In April 2018 the hospital joined the National Bereavement Care Pathway, which intends to ensure a common standard in bereavement care for parents.

Radio Cavell

Radio Cavell, founded in 1952, provides a hospital radio service in the hospital.

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Official site
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History

Radio Cavell

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