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Royal Oldham Hospital
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Oldham Hospital
Shown in Greater Manchester
Geography
Location	Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates	53°33′10″N 2°07′22″W / 53.5528°N 2.1227°W / 53.5528; -2.1227
Organisation
Care system	Public NHS
Services
Emergency department	Yes Accident & Emergency
Beds	445
History
Opened	c.1870 (as a workhouse infirmary)
Links
Website	http://www.pat.nhs.uk
Lists	Hospitals in England

The Royal Oldham Hospital is a NHS hospital in the Coldhurst area of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. It is managed by the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital has its own volunteer-run radio station, Radio Cavell, which broadcasts at 1350 AM.

History

The hospital has its origins in the workhouse infirmary established to support the Oldham Union Workhouse on the Rochdale Road in around 1870. It became the Boundary Park Hospital in the late 1920s and, after joining the National Health Service in 1948, it became Oldham and District General Hospital in 1955. In 1989 it was renamed the Royal Oldham Hospital.

In 1951 the obstetrician and gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe joined the hospital and Louise Brown, the world's first successful in vitro fertilised "test tube baby", was born there on 25 July 1978. The hospital was also the birthplace of English physicist Brian Cox, who is a professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester; he was born in 1968.

In April 2018 the hospital joined the National Bereavement Care Pathway, which intends to ensure a common standard in bereavement care for parents.

Radio Cavell

Radio Cavell, founded in 1952, provides a hospital radio service in the hospital.

See also

• Westhulme Hospital
• List of hospitals in England

References

1. "The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust". Care Quality Commission. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
2. "Official website". Radio Cavell.
3. "Oldham". Workhouses. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
4. "Royal Oldham Hospital, Oldham". National Archives. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
5. "First test-tube baby hails birth pioneers". Oldham Evening Chronicle. 17 March 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
6. "TV star Professor Cox goes back to school for a day!". Oldham Evening Chronicle. 22 November 2018. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
7. "Royal Oldham hospital joins the National Bereavement Care Pathway". Rochdale News. 18 April 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
8. "Radio Cavell". Hospital Broadcasting Association. Retrieved 22 December 2021.

External links

• Official site

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Buildings	Ace Mill, Hollinwood Chadderton Town Hall Fox Mill, Hollinwood Heron Mill, Hollinwood Junction Mill, Middleton Junction Magnet Mill, Chadderton Majestic Mill, Waterhead Malta Mill, Middleton Manor Mill, Chadderton Newby Mill, Shaw Oldham Civic Centre Old Town Hall, Oldham Orme Mill, Waterhead Regent Mill, Failsworth Rifle Street drill hall Royal Oldham Hospital Rutland Mill, Shaw Trent Mill, Shaw Werneth Hall
Places of worship	St James' Church Madina Masjid & Islamic Centre Church of St Mary and St Peter St Matthew's Church, Chadderton Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St Patrick Church Salem Moravian Church Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Westwood Moravian Church
Education	Blessed John Henry Newman RC College The Blue Coat School The Brian Clarke CE Academy Co-op Academy Failsworth Crompton House CE Academy Darul Hadis Latifiah Northwest E-ACT Royton and Crompton Academy The Hathershaw College Hulme Grammar School North Chadderton School Oasis Academy Oldham Oldham Academy North Oldham College Oldham Sixth Form College The Radclyffe School Saddleworth School Waterhead Academy
Transportation	Oldham bus station
Sport and entertainment	Boundary Park Coliseum Theatre Gallery Oldham Vestacare Stadium
Others	Alexandra Park Oldham War Memorial Werneth Park
Demolished	Blackridings Mill Chadderton Power Station Clegg Street railway station Dawn Mill, Shaw Hawk Mill, Shaw Kent Mill, Chadderton Laurel Mill, Middleton Junction Maple Mill Middleton Junction railway station Oldham Central railway station Glodwick Road railway station Mumps railway station Mumps (LNWR) railway station Royd Mill Royton Ring Mill, Royton Textile Mill, Chadderton Thorp Mill, Royton Watersheddings Werneth railway station
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Listed buildings in	Chadderton Failsworth Lees Oldham Royton Saddleworth Shaw and Crompton

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