Northern General Hospital

Northern General Hospital
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Geography
Location	Fir Vale, Sheffield, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, UK
Organisation
Care system	NHS
Hospital type	Teaching / large acute
Affiliated university	Sheffield Medical School (University of Sheffield) & Faculty of Health and Wellbeing of Sheffield Hallam University.
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	1100
History
Founded	1878 (as Fir Vale Workhouse)
Links
Website	http://www.sth.nhs.uk
Other links	List of hospitals in England

The Northern General Hospital is a large teaching hospital and Major Trauma Centre in Sheffield, England. Its departments include Accident and Emergency for adults, with children being treated at the Sheffield Children's Hospital on Western Bank. The hospital is run by the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which also runs the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, the Jessop Wing, Weston Park Hospital and Charles Clifford Dental Hospital.

The Hospital was established in 1878 as Fir Vale Workhouse, which contained the Smilter Lane and Herries Road Children's Homes.

By 1967 the site contained two hospitals which had developed from the Workhouse: Fir Vale Infirmary and the City General Hospital. This overall entity was then renamed as the 'Northern General Hospital'.

The hospital consists of six wings. Many of the older wings are named after significant families and individuals from Sheffield, particularly in the steel industry:

Named for Benjamin Huntsman, mostly orthopaedics, but also contains the A&E, Surgical Assessment Centre (SAC), X-Ray departments, the theatres, one of four Outpatients' departments, a large dining room and the site's main Medical Records department.

Within the entrance to the Huntsman Building a Boots Pharmacy and shop, a new coffee shop and small cafe are located near the main reception desk. There is an RBS cash machine.

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