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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]
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.
The services also operate on New Year's Eve with additional journeys during the evening between 19:00 and 23:00, along with journeys on Arriva North West's route 352 to Orrell and 362 to Standish and on Wigan Buses/Maytree Travel route 612 to Wrightington Hospital. [39] 53 and 88 are examples even though at daytime they are First Greater ...
The trust was established as Whittington Hospital NHS Trust on 4 November 1992, and became operational on 1 April 1993. It took its current name on 6 November 2017. It took its current name on 6 November 2017.
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