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The facility was built as a private house known as Wrightington Hall, which was completed in 1748 and extended in 1860. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1918 the building was acquired for £16,473 by Lancashire County Council, who converted it, for the cost of £129,520, into a hospital. [ 3 ]
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals (WWL) NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS Foundation Trust providing services in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and Wrightington, England. It was formed on 1 April 2001 by the merger of Wrightington Hospital NHS Trust and Wigan and Leigh Health Services NHS Trust, and became an NHS Foundation Trust ...
In May 2020, a new ward dedicated to treating COVID-19 patients was opened in the hospital. The Bryn Ward has 50 beds with 27 of those being used for intensive care . [ 5 ] The modular unit was built in the Infirmary's car park.
Nuffield Health Warwickshire Hospital (independent) – Leamington Spa; Nuffield Health Shrewsbury Hospital (independent) – Shrewsbury; Princess Royal Hospital – Telford; The (BMI) Priory Hospital (independent) – Birmingham; Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham – Edgbaston, Birmingham; Queen's Hospital – Burton upon Trent
The site for the facility was a gift from Lord Lilford of Atherton Hall. [1] The facility itself, which was financed by a legacy from Miss Elizabeth Farnworth and by other subscribers, was completed in 1906. [1]
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John Charnley was born in Bury, in Lancashire, on 29 August 1911. [10]His father, Arthur Walker Charnley, was a chemist and had a chemist's shop at 25 Princess Street; his mother, Lily, had trained as a nurse at Crumpsall Hospital.
Originally a country house, later part of a hospital, it is in sandstone with a hipped slate roof. The building has a symmetrical east front of seven bays , the middle three bays recessed, a south front of five bays, and a west front of seven bays with a single-storey porch in front of the central three bays.