Derbyshire Children's Hospital

This article is about Derbyshire Children's Hospital. For other similarly named hospitals, see Children's Hospital (disambiguation).

Derbyshire Children's Hospital is a children's hospital in Derby, Derbyshire in the United Kingdom. It is managed by the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust.^[1] It was the only entirely new children's hospital built in the UK in the twentieth century.^[2]

History

The hospital was established as the Derbyshire Hospital for Sick Children in a Victorian building on North Street in 1877.^[3] It joined the National Health Service in 1948 and moved to a modern building on the Royal Derby Hospital site in 1996. It was the only entirely new children's hospital built in the UK in the twentieth century.^[2]

See also

• List of hospitals in England

References

1. "Welcome". University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
2. "Sweetening the pill". Architects' Journal. 1996. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
3. "Derbyshire Hospital for Sick Children, Derby". National Archives. Retrieved 2 August 2018.

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