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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.
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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Wrightington is a civil parish in West Lancashire, England, with an area of 3,915½ acres. The surface is hilly, rising to over 400 ft. at Harrock on the border of Parbold , and then falling to the north, northeast and southeast.
John Charnley of Bury invented the hip replacement in 1962 at Wrightington Hospital, Lancashire, north-west of Wigan. Clatterbridge Hospital in Bebington has a cyclotron (linear accelerator), and is the only hospital in the UK to offer proton therapy. Alderley Park opened in October 1957, and ICI Pharmaceuticals was formed in the same year.
Within this hospital are the Southampton General Hospital, the Southampton Children's Hospital and the Princess Anne Hospital. All hospitals are based on the same site, with them collectively having 1,362 beds - making it the second largest hospital by beds in the UK. [1] The trust employs 12,321 as of 2024. [2]