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The trust is the main provider of hospital care to approximately 750,000 people in the areas covered by the Manchester & Trafford Local Care Organisations. [14] It is also the lead provider of multiple specialist services to the 2.8 million people in the Greater Manchester conurbation [14] including:
Oxford Road frontage of the Manchester Museum (the Baroque style building in the foreground is the former Dental Hospital) The Dental Hospital was established in association with the School of Medicine at Owens College in 1884. It was then at Grosvenor Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock and removed to another house, in Devonshire Street, in 1892.
The Trust's headquarters on Oxford Road, Manchester. Central Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, was a large NHS foundation trust in Manchester, England, that was founded in 2009 and merged with University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust in 2017 to form the current Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.
Upon receiving the keys to the hospital Bevan was given a tour of the hospital by the Matron Ann Dolan. Dolan had been appointed as matron before the hospital had officially opened in 1929, and was pictured alongside Bevan and Diggory in the news stories of 1948. [4] Sylvia Diggory (née Beckingham), then 13, was the first NHS patient.
Wythenshawe Hospital was a founding member of the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre [10] and a teaching hospital of Manchester Medical School. [11] [12] [13] [14]It is still a centre of expertise in respiratory disease and the North West Lung Centre houses the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre and the UK National Aspergillosis Centre.
The creation of the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre was announced by the then health secretary, Alan Johnson, in March 2009. [ 4 ] The designation was renewed by the Department of Health and Social Care in April 2014 for 5 years, [ 5 ] with a one-year extension then granted to March 2020.
At its height, the hospital was the largest teaching hospital in Europe, [8] thanks in part to its affiliation with the University of Manchester, which has one of the largest medical schools in the north of England. [9] During the 1990s the hospital faced closure; its fate was sealed when the doors shut in 2002.