King's Mill Hospital is an acute district general hospital serving the population of north

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and parts of

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and

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. It is managed by the

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was formed in 2001 and gained Foundation Trust status in 2007. It runs three hospitals in Nottinghamshire - King's Mill Hospital, Newark Hospital and Mansfield Community Hospital. It also operates ...

. The majority of the hospital buildings are inside Ashfield District Council (town planning) area with some peripheral buildings falling under

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planning controls.

History

King's Mill was opened as the 30th General Hospital of California, a military hospital, in 1942. The hospital housed 400 injured American personnel as well as German prisoners of war. Part of the site was used to accommodate Mansfield Secondary Technical School, taking students from 1945 housed in the Nissen huts that had been left by the US Army. It was officially opened by Sir Hubert Houldsworth, Chairman of the East Midlands Division of the

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on 22 June 1948. It later moved to new premises, becoming known as Sherwood Hall Secondary School. Other areas of the site were used to create King's Mill Hospital. The hospital was officially opened by

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, the

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on 17 September 1951. The Dukeries Maternity Centre was opened by the Duchess of Devonshire on 14 January 1975. New facilities were procured under a

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contract in 2005. The works were carried out by

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at a cost of £300 million and opened in 2011. The design incorporated surface-solar energy heat recovery from an adjacent reservoir, which provides one-third of the heating and all of the cooling requirements for the complex. This involved submerging a grid of 140 stainless steel plates into the water at the deepest point, connected to the hospital via twin pipes laid under the A38 dual carriageway road. After Maternity Services moved into a new Women and Children's Centre, the old Dukeries Maternity Centre was finally demolished in spring 2013.

Facilities

Millside Radio provides entertainment for patients via a

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wired network from in-house studios run by volunteers. Established during 1989 in an attic room at the old Dukeries Maternity Centre, the station was officially opened by

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in 1990. The studios later moved into the Trust's administrative building.Millside Radio set to mark 25 years on hospital airwaves. ''Chad'' (local newspaper), 1 Oct 2014, p.42. Accessed 22 November 2020. The

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, operated by the

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, opened in 1981 is located nearby on the

A38 road The A38, parts of which are known as Devon Expressway, Bristol Road and Gloucester Road, Bristol, Gloucester Road, is a major A-class trunk road in England. The road runs from Bodmin in Cornwall to Mansfield in Nottinghamshire. It is long, mak ...

References

External links

King's Mill Hospital information page at NHS UKMillside Hospital RadioPublic Transport to King's Mill HospitalPublic Transport from King's Mill Hospital
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