St Mary's Hospital, Manchester

For other uses, see Saint Mary's Hospital (disambiguation).

St Mary's Hospital
Geography
Location	Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Organisation
Care system	Public NHS
Hospital type	Specialist
Services
Speciality	Paediatric, Obstetrics & Gynaecology (Genetics)
History
Founded	1790
Links
Website	http://www.cmft.nhs.uk/saint-marys.aspx
Lists	Hospitals in England

St Mary's Hospital is a hospital in Manchester, England. It is part of Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It was founded in 1790. St Mary's provides a unique range of inter-related services specifically for women and children. Out-patient and in-patient facilities exist to provide mainstream and speciality services in the areas of:

• Obstetrics
• Gynaecology
• Neonatal medicine and surgery
• Genetics / immunogenetics laboratory,
• Reproductive medicine

In addition , the Sexual Assault Referral Centre, also based at St Mary's, represents a unique collaboration between Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Greater Manchester Police Authority. The Centre accepts emergency or self referrals from adults who have been raped or sexually assaulted.

St Mary's Hospital is headed by a Clinical Director and a Divisional Director. The multi-disciplinary approach adopted by clinicians aims to provide the highest standard of care for mother and child. More than 1200 staff, including doctors, nurses, midwives, clinical and non-clinical support staff work in St Mary's Hospital. A range of clinical and non clinical support services are based at the site to support the work undertaken, including well established departments of radiology and physiotherapy.

Teaching hospital and research

As a teaching hospital, St Mary's has close links with the School of Medicine, University of Manchester. There are three University Chairs in post (in Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Child Health and Medical Genetics) and the University has extensive research facilities on the hospital site.

History

The hospital was founded in 1790 by Dr Charles White. From 1855 to 1903 it occupied a building in Quay Street which was erected at the expense of Dr Thomas Radford. In 1904 the hospital was amalgamated with the Manchester Southern Hospital for Women and Children and consequently two new hospitals were built. One was in Whitworth Street West on the corner of Oxford Street, while the other was on Oxford Road in Chorlton on Medlock. In 1915 the city centre hospital provided maternity and outpatient services and had 56 maternity beds and 50 cots, with accommodation for medical students, midwives and pupil nurses. The suburban hospital provided gynaecological and paediatric services and contained 115 beds.^[1]

In 2009 pediatric (exluding neonatal) services from St Mary's Hospital were transferred to the new Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, which opened on 11th June 2009.^[2]

See also

• Manchester Royal Infirmary
• Manchester Royal Eye Hospital
• Royal Manchester Children's Hospital
• University Dental Hospital of Manchester

References

1. ^ Wild, R. B. (1915) "The Medical Charities of Manchester and Salford", in: McKechnie, H. M., ed. Manchester in Nineteen Hundred and Fifteen. Manchester: University Press; pp. 55-58
2. ^ Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Coordinates: 53°27′34″N 2°13′31″W / 53.45944°N 2.22528°W / 53.45944; -2.22528