Tredegar General Hospital
- Tredegar General Hospital
Tredegar General Hospital is a community hospital in Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, Wales providing rehabilitation and GP in-patient care with 85 full and part-time staff and 58 beds in two wards. There is a small 24 hour minor casualty unit staffed by nurses. The hospital is operated by the Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust.
Tredegar General Hospital was opened in December 1904. In 1901, the Tredegar Medical Aid Society had convened a public meeting to discuss the establishment of a hospital and eventually a committee of more than 30 members was set up to build and manage it.
Land for the new Tredegar Park Cottage Hospital, as it was then called, was donated by Lord Tredegar. Funding came from the Tredegar Iron and Coal Company, other local employers and organisations, private and public donations and "above all" by the workmen mainly from the pits who agreed to maintain the hospital by having an extra halfpenny a week deducted from their wages.
Aneurin Bevan, who introduced the National Health Service in 1948, was a member of the Cottage Hospital Management Committee around 1928 and was chairman in 1929/30. The hospital now has an extension known as the Aneurin Bevan Medical Centre, and a portrait of Bevan hangs in the hospital's foyer.
A.J. Cronin, whose 1937 novel, "The Citadel", brought much attention to Tredegar's grassroots healthcare system, worked as a doctor at the Cottage Hospital during the early 1920s.
External links
* [http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sites3/page.cfm?orgid=79&pid=824 NHS website]
* [http://www.cradleofnhs.org.uk/medical.htm Story of healthcare in Tredegar]
* [http://www.agor.org.uk/cwm/themes/medicine_and_health/community_health/healthcarePersonnel.asp History of healthcare in the South Wales Coalfield]
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