Royal Oldham Hospital | |
Org/Group: | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust |
Location: | Oldham |
Region: | Greater Manchester |
State: | England |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Healthcare: | NHS |
Emergency: | Yes |
Beds: | 191[1] |
Founded: | c.1870 (as a workhouse infirmary) |
Website: | http://www.pat.nhs.uk |
Map Type: | Greater Manchester |
Coordinates: | 53.5528°N -2.1227°W |
The Royal Oldham Hospital is a NHS hospital in the Coldhurst area of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. It is managed by the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital has its own volunteer-run radio station, Radio Cavell, which broadcasts at 1350 AM.[2]
The hospital has its origins in the workhouse infirmary established to support the Oldham Union Workhouse on the Rochdale Road in around 1870.[3] It became the Boundary Park Hospital in the late 1920s and, after joining the National Health Service in 1948, it became Oldham and District General Hospital in 1955.[4]
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 University of Manchester; he was born in 1968.[5] The hospital was also the birthplace of Louise Brown, the world's first successful in vitro fertilised "test tube baby", on 25 July 1978.[6]
In April 2018 the hospital joined the National Bereavement Care Pathway, which intends to ensure a common standard in bereavement care for parents.[7]
Radio Cavell, founded in 1952, provides a hospital radio service in the hospital.[8]