Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was established on 1st January 2009 after being authorised by Monitor. Up until then it was known as Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals Trust which was founded on 1 April 2001. It brought together Central Manchester Healthcare NHS Trust and the Manchester Children's Hospitals NHS Trust following a period of public consultation and the final decision by the Secretary of State. It comprises the following hospitals who were established as follows:
Booth Hall Hospital
1851 was a significant year for the city because not only was it the year that Humphrey Booth was born, but with it a caring nature that has passed through generations which has turned Booth Hall Hospital into one of the most talked about children's hospitals in the country.
In fact the inscription on Booth's headstone that reads 'love his memory, imitate his devotion' perfectly sums up the Hospital's continued devotion to patient care.
Booth bought a piece of land in Blackley before 1907, when the building was demolished to make way for the new Hospital. The infirmary opened in 1908.
Costing £70,000 to build from the remains of Booth's house, it occupied a 34 acre site, and was built in a two-storied pavilion style. By February 1909, 151 patients had been moved from the Work House to the Infirmary and by March that year, there were more than 30 staff. Influenced by Booth's reason for helping the destitute after the devastating effects of the plague, Booth Hall cared for those who were poor, but sick until 1914 when wounded soldiers from World War I were admitted.
On the day after World War II broke out, all patients were removed from Booth Hall. Those who were well enough were sent home and the rest to other hospitals or convalescence homes in the North West. The empty Hospital was made ready for the casualties of expected air raids, and a decontamination unit was even installed for the victims of gas attacks. However, the anticipated conflict never materialised and within six months the Hospital reverted back to caring for sick children.
At that time, it had 525 beds, 227 of which were occupied. In the first three weeks of June that year there were 1,092 out-patient attendances and 143 operations carried out.
When the NHS was born in 1948, Booth Hall, Monsall and the Duchess of York Hospital were grouped under Manchester babies and Children's Hospital Management Committee, and he Hospital was incorporated into the NHS.
From the vision of one man in 1907, the Hospital grew, yet its principles remained constant throughout. This approach and dedication to caring for the children of the North West, and the UK as a whole, continues with the new Royal Manchester Children's Hospital.
Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Pendlebury
The Hospital at Pendlebury was the first in the UK to treat only children when it opened in 1829. It began as a small th century, its size grew ten-fold. By 1852, the Hospital was receiving so many patients, it was necessary to amass donations to move to a larger building, enabling the Royal at Pendlebury to care for at least 7,000 patients a year.
In the first century after opening, the Hospital at Pendlebury treated in excess of 80,000 patients. Locating the dispensary onsite allowed hospital staff to give patients quick access to the medical care they needed, and prevented the onset of disease by distributing information on hygiene and health.
Through its commitment to stalling the onset of disease, Pendlebury became recognised in 1924 as the leading institute for nursing training- trainee nurses all had to gain certification attained only by being taught at the facility at Pendlebury.
The Hospital continued to thrive after the birth of the NHS, expanding to host over 250 beds, adding teaching units and theatres to the building. The Hospital maintained its commitment to caring for the local and wider community, and it is this ethos which drives the new Royal Manchester Children's Hospital development on Oxford Road.
Saint Mary's Hospital
Saint Mary's Hospital was founded in 1790 and, over the years, has successfully developed a wide range of world class medical services for women, babies and children as well as a comprehensive Genetics Centre. The staff at Saint Mary's deliver over 5,000 babies each year and the new facilities here will mean that they can expand even further to deliver even more. Over 1,000 staff work at the hospital and provide the highest standards of care in: Obstetrics/Maternity; Gynaecology; Genetics and Newborn Intensive Care.
Manchester Royal Eye Hospital
The Manchester Royal Eye Hospital was established in 1814 and is now one of the largest teaching eye hospitals in Europe and one of only two dedicated eye hospitals in the country. Globally acknowledged as a centre of excellence, the Eye Hospital is renowned for its pioneering work in all aspects of ophthalmology, including the Emergency Eye Centre, Acute Referral Centre, Ophthalmic Imaging, Ultrasound Unit, Electrodiagnosis, Laser Unit, Optometry, Orthoptics, Manchester Eye Bank and Ocular Prosthetics.
Manchester Royal Infirmary
Manchester Royal Infirmary was founded in 1752 in a small 12-bedded house in the city centre. We are now a large teaching hospital for Manchester University's Medical School and a specialist regional centre for kidney and pancreas transplants, cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery. The MRI has boasted many medical breakthroughs, the most recent last year when we were the first hospital in the UK to undertake 4,000 kidney transplants and the first to have undertaken 1,000 cochlear implants.
Dental Hospital
The Dental Hospital was founded in 1883 to serve the dental side of the medical school by allowing staff and students to attend to patients unable to pay for private dental treatment. All these hospitals were intended for the poor, for it was not until the end of the 19th century that richer folk sought hospital treatment.
The passing of the 1878 Dental Act had introduced a new Register for Licensed Dentists (an effort to exclude quacks from the trade), and once the Royal College of Surgeons gave the new hospital formal recognition as a teaching site in 1884, students began to seek instruction. As for patients, the hospital's governing body decided to open the Hospital's treatment rooms three evenings a week for the working poor who would otherwise lose wages if attending in day-time. This scheme (which was never adopted in any ordinary hospital) proved a roaring success, and by 1887 the Hospital was treating more than 10,000 patients per year, the great majority during the evenings.
Several large donations during the early 1900s secured a site, and a new Victoria Dental Hospital was constructed next to the University Museum on Oxford Road (of which the dental building is now a part). A major donation to Manchester hospitals in the 1920s and 1930s came from a new trade -- from Sir Samuel Turner, the Rochdale businessman and head of Turner and Newall asbestos manufacturers, who paid for a new dental hospital.
It was to have been officially opened in June 1940, but the Second World War intervened:
The opening ceremony was cancelled but the hospital was at work from May. Seven months later it was bombed during an air-raid, and passed much of the rest of the war without windows, but it took on numerous war duties allocated by the Ministry of Health, including routine dentistry for all service personnel, evacuees, refugees, and war-related factory workers.
The long-awaited redevelopment of the University Dental Hospital of Manchester was finally completed in the early months of 1972. The clinical workload of the Hospital had continued to increase sharply, especially in primary care and oral surgery, and the new facilities were also intended to enhance relationships between the Dental Hospital, the University and other local teaching hospitals. New facilities, a new curriculum and new visiting arrangements with city dental clinics were all intended to raise the profile of Manchester as a centre of excellence in dental teaching, and the 1970s did indeed see a steady rise in student enrolment. The re-equipped Dental Hospital also provided better training for dental technicians (building on the introduction of technician qualifications in the mid-1960s), and of dental surgery assistants and other ancillary staff. Specialists in relatively new fields such as plastic surgery and speech therapy were appointed to the hospital, and ancillary departments and clinics, such as oral pathology and paediatric dentistry, were squeezed in alongside the more established dental work.
In 1991, the MRI, St. Mary's, the Royal Eye Hospital and the Dental Hospital became the Manchester Central Hospitals and Community Care National Health Service Trust.
For many decades the state of the teeth of Manchester had been a cause of serious concern. The 1990s saw a vigorous fund-raising effort directed at local and national groups for the creation of a new Dental Education Centre. The School's reputation for education was already impressive: By the mid-1990s some 25% of all postgraduate dental students in England and Wales had passed through its doors. When the new Educational Centre opened in 1998, £2.25 million had been collected, and the fund continued to expand. All branches of the profession were served by the Centre including dental therapists, hygienists, technicians and nurses. Also in 1998, the Dental Hospital was nominated as the regional centre for the management of specialised Cleft Lip and Palate services. This service brought together a range of specialists, including surgeons, orthodontists and speech and language therapists, and became a template for 15 new regional centres across the UK. That same year saw the establishment in Manchester of the Cochrane Centre for Oral Health, one of a range of international centres covering many areas of medicine, which collected and analysed research results as a basis for 'evidence-based practice.'
The Dental Hospital also co-operated with the Infirmary for some surgical cases, and so did the Manchester Foot Hospital, on Anson Street (near Victoria Park), which had been founded in 1920 to train chiropodists and give free treatment to the needy. Like the Dental Hospital it did not have beds, but ran daytime and evening out-patient clinics. Foot problems, though important to many, were even less glamorous than those of teeth.
