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From 2016/17 to 2018/19 the Northern Ireland health trusts collected £15,673,977 from hospital car parking charges. More £2.8 million of that was charges for staff parking. Charges are decided individually by the trusts. The campaign group Patient Voice NI said no patient or employee should have to pay to park at a hospital. [11]
The hospital was founded as the Torbay Hospital, Provident Dispensary and Eye Infirmary in 1844. [1] Construction started in 1850, with the first wing being completed in 1851 and a second wing being added in 1878.
Expansion of the hospital took place when services were transferred from the Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital in the centre of Shrewsbury in 1998. [3] The site on the opposite side of the Mytton Oak Road, formerly occupied by the Copthorne Hospital, was deemed surplus to requirements and sold for development to create affordable housing in 2007. [4]
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The Trust’s main service locations are the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, which together provide 99% of its activity. [9] Both hospitals provide a wide range of acute hospital services including accident & emergency, outpatients, diagnostics, inpatient medical care, trauma and orthopaedics and critical care.
Services have around 500,000 face-to-face contacts with patients in their homes and communities each year and over 78,000 people are seen in Torbay Hospital's emergency department every year. The resident population that the organisation supports is approximately 286,000 people, plus about 100,000 visitors at any one time during the summer ...
[1] [2] The Bridgetown Hill facility eventually became decrepit and, after the hospital closed in the early 1990s, the site was developed as Varian Court. [ 1 ] The current facility on Coronation Road, which replaced both the old Bridgetown Hill facility and the Broomborough Hospital, was opened by the Duchess of Kent in 1993. [ 1 ]
[2] It was established as Torbay Care Trust in October 2005, with responsibility for social care in a partnership agreement with Torbay Borough Council. From then until April 2012, the trust had responsibility for both commissioning (buying) and providing integrated health and social care services to people in the Torbay area.